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 12:31 | 13/Apr/2006 |
| Money minded? | |
| What’s with Chappel? This is the second time he has talked about a player and his monetary needs. First it was the One-who-must-not-be-named (not Voldemort), when he insinuated that captaincy was required to maintain the player’s finances. Now he says, while expressing desire that Tendulkar will return and play a crucial role (emphasis mine): “"Kno...
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| 11:36 | 12/Apr/2006 |
| Speak no evil, hear no evil | |
| Michael Hussey is concerned about the young listeners picking up some bad words during a match, listening to the fielders, er.., chatting to the batsmen. This came about after Tony Greig was flabbergasted by the sledging of the Australians.It is nice to see Hussey’s concern for the young audience. But what would have made it more endearing is if he...
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| 08:05 | 4/Apr/2006 |
| Selection shenanigans | |
| The selection process of the Indian team in the past has resembled a Sherlock Holmes mystery, with the audience aware of what is happening but damned if it knew why. Resembled, that is, but for the denouement where Holmes lights his pipe (or picks up his Stradivarius) and starts explaining things patiently to Dr.Watson. Unfortunately, that denoueme...
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| 12:09 | 1/Apr/2006 |
| We are the culprit | |
| Prithvi rightly calls the Faridabad incident, where fans including valid ticket holders were lathi-charged by police, a disgrace. But it is not so much a disgrace as our attitude towards such actions.This is not the first time fans have been beaten and chased from a venue, and this certainly will not be the last time. The BCCI is just extending the...
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| 05:19 | 1/Apr/2006 |
| Srinath speaks | |
| With India leading the series 1-0, Dean Jones and Srinath have this conversation before the second ODI: Dean Jones: "England must win this game here?" Srinath: "Yes, probably that will even out the series." “Probably”? I am curious what else could have happened if England had won. Thank God for the mute button.
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| 00:51 | 29/Mar/2006 |
| Test travails - secret revealed! | |
| Tuesday, March 28, 2006A startling discovery in the Indian dressing room has revealed the secret behind their forgettable performances in the recent test matches, particularly the third test against England. Their test whites were found to be tampered with, the fabric infused with an electronic device that made them vulnerable to loss and repel win...
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| 10:56 | 27/Mar/2006 |
| To play or not to play | |
| So, is Sehwag fit enough to play or no? This article says he is, but also mentions that we will know for sure only Monday.Why is the fitness of a player being taken so lightly? We have seen this type of touch-and-go approach from the BCCI too many times for comfort. We don’t know whether a player is fit or not till the day he is playing. Why take c...
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| 01:50 | 25/Mar/2006 |
| Perspective | |
| I think it was Stephen Leacock who wrote that sports and patriotism don't mix - that two teams representing their nations playing against each other is just another kind of war. I fully subscribe to this view. Therefore, I believe that our loss against England is not a national calamity that people need to lose their sleep over, nor is it so embarr...
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| 13:05 | 24/Mar/2006 |
| The tale of two captains (Or, No flint o... | |
| When England arrived in India, much of the talk centered on what would be the margin of the result in favour of India, not whether the result will actually be in its favour - that much seemed a foregone conclusion. This margin became wider as more English players were rendered hors de combat. Now we know better.Having accepted the captaincy, or rat...
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| 04:48 | 21/Mar/2006 |
| Life, the universe and everything | |
| After snooping around various blogs and posting comments in them, I have taken the next brave step of creating my own blog. I hope to keep this filled as often as I can. Topics? The title says it all. Thanks for stopping by. Drop in again soon and see if you like what you read.
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution |
| Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...
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| Ruchir Joshi | 19:04 | 7/Jun/2007 |
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| Daily Roundup (June-07-2007) |
| Vaughan and Flint. That the hot news in English cricket, it seems. Vaughan said that Fredalo wrecked English World Cup plans by his drinking."We arrived at the World Cup in a positive frame of mind," Vaughan told The Guardian. "But unfortunately incidents happened which affected the team. You have to be honest, the 'Fredalo' incident did affect the...
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| Dinesh Nambisan | 03:02 | 9/May/2007 |
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| Muck raking |
| It had to happen sooner or later, with "stings" being in vogue in Indian media it was just a matter of time before one of them focused on cricket (Come to think of it, if memory serves me right, it all started with cricket: The first widely-known "sting" operation conducted by the media was by Aniruddha Bahal (then Tehelka) with the help of Manoj P...
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| Sonu Katha | 18:15 | 28/Oct/2007 |
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| 'Talking too much' is top job-interview ... |
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| Talking too much is the most common interview mistake that job candidates make,according to 36 percent of recruiters who completed the ninth edition of the quarterly Executive Recruiter Index, released by Korn/Ferry International, the premier global provider of executive search, outsourced recruiting andleadership development solutions. Other commo...
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| Suchismita G... | 16:07 | 28/Apr/2006 |
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| EASIEST QUIZ |
| WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ(Passing requires 4 correct answers)1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last?2) Which country makes Panama hats?3) From which animal do we get catgut?4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific ! are named after what animal?7) What...
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| Dileep | 11:47 | 5/Jun/2006 |
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| I love Test Cricket |
| Ah, what a beautiful game cricket is. Imagine this. Fidel Edwards charging in at Sehwag with a leg slip and a close in fielder on the leg side. A ploy set up by Lara to test the much publicised weakness in Sehwag's technique for raising deliveries on to his body in leg stump line.First ball, perfectly balled as per the plan, Sehwag intinctively pro...
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| shishir bhate | 19:52 | 21/Mar/2006 |
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| Are more H-1B visas good for India? |
| By the end of this month, if will be clear if the US Senate Immigration Reform Bill introduced to decide whether H-1B visa limit should be increased from 65,000 to 115,000 has been defeated or allowed to sail through successfully. Everyone says an increase in the H-1B visa limit will help Indians the most. Will it, really? But more on that in just ...
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| Prithviraj H... | 22:27 | 10/May/2006 |
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| Gag, gag, gag! |
| What's with the BCCI?Virender Sehwag says he misses Ganguly, says the Indian team plays too much cricket, he is gagged. The BCCI warns him not to speak on such issues.Sachin Tendulkar has his first net in months. The media is not invited. When they land up they are asked to shoot for afar.So TV has a sideways angle of Sachin playing a few shots. So...
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