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by Kartik Kannan
When Dhoni was handed over the reigns of captaincy for the ODI team, one was wondering, whether it came a bit too early for him. Sometimes individual brilliance and managing a team, don’t really gel together. Sachin Tendulkar was...
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The ICC has realized that that their job must now shift gears from trying to convince players to finding a feasibly alternative to keep their stakeholders happy. After...
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The ICC has managed to dodge one bullet; even if it means it leaves someone else bleeding. Even as the Champions Trophy has become a migraine for the ICC, they have...
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India have tried changed the batting order, changing the line up even. But when the batsmen just do not have enough in them to cope with the spin wizards, it is up to...
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India have tried changed the batting order, changing the line up even. But when the batsmen just do not have enough in them to cope with the spin wizards, it is up to...
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This is the first big blow. The ICC has tried and run helter-skelter to convince boards to conform. When weekends become a greater workload, it usually means either...
made popular Aug 19 2008
Pictures like the one you see above are rare. It is not often that team India wearing white celebrates at the end of a hard fought Test match on foreign soil, let alone...
made popular Aug 19 2008
Asif’s in trouble; Shoaib Akhtar replaces him. Akhtar’s bad boy alter ego rears; Asif is back in the fray. How long can this game last?
They say, it is...
made popular Aug 19 2008
India opening batsman Virender Sehwag has been ruled out of the one-day series against Sri Lanka after injuring his ankle in training.
made popular Aug 19 2008
What a nightmare! The change in skipper has barely changed fortunes, although it is hard to blame the captain for the collective batting on show in the first innings of...
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The ICC Champions trophy, next only to the ICC World Cup and which is to be held in Pakistan from September 12 to 28, might recieve a jolt if major teams decides not to...
made popular Aug 17 2008
The questions and the comparisons are never too far away. With sports that rarely cross paths, the debates get bigger still. There is a lesser chance of finding Michael...
made popular Aug 17 2008
It seems rather strange that most of India’s victories have been wildly rejoiced without going through the scanner to understand what has worked and how victory was...
made popular Aug 17 2008
by Rupesh
The warm up match with Sri Lankan XI before the five-match one day series was all joy for Yuvaraj Singh who scored a cracking ton to ensure the Indians a...
made popular Aug 16 2008
The men in Blue try and leave the blues of Test Cricket behind them and take on the Lankan might in the 50 over format of the game. The team would be dearly hoping that...
made popular Aug 15 2008
Just last week we had the astonishing Samsung Messager making its public debut with MetroPCS and looks like the phone is out to conquer the fantasies of one and all...
made popular Aug 13 2008
(In a lighter vein)
By Vincent Van Ross
I have never thought of cricket as a game of any consequence. Because, the only point it has ever made is a ‘silly...
made popular Aug 13 2008
India batsman Sachin Tendulkar has dropped to his lowest ranking since 1992 in the International Cricket Council’s test standings for batsmen after a...
made popular Aug 13 2008
The last time India went to Sri Lanka to play a test series, it was in 2001 and even that year, they were beaten by a similar score line of 2-1. That series was a...
made popular Aug 12 2008
There are two ways of looking at the way the Test series panned out for India. Many would like to brush it off attributing it to the Mendis effect and of the ill fated...
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When all hope seems lost, there is still hope. Seems ironical? Not really. This may not be the ideal Test. But it has had enough drama from sunken hopes to revived...
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When a young Michael Jordon tried to hog the limelight and score all by himself every point in the match, he was told sternly by his college coach, “There is no...
made popular Aug 10 2008
by Kartik Kannan
Anil Kumble has been India’s long serving hero, who has bowled India to many of its famous wins since its resurgence in the 90’s under...
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Funny are the ways when the people that should have been rested much earlier are being rested rather late and those that perhaps still have the legs are being told to...
made popular Aug 7 2008
This is the kind of shake up that can, at best, be called dramatic. This has been a dramatic week for cricket in England and there is much sorrow and all the joy has...
made popular Aug 6 2008
Kevin Pietersen’s cricketing friends and foes alike agree that the new England captain is going to have to change his ways to succeed in his new job.
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When South Africa won the heroic Lord’s Test in 1994, a popular sports magazine in India ran a cover story calling Kepler Wessels ‘captain courageous’ for his...
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Captain America may not be back from the dead, but he’s back _ sort of. After Marvel Comics unexpectedly killed off the champion of liberty and the American way...
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Call it the Misadventure of Captain Underpants and the Peeved Principal.A suburban Long Island high school has banned all Halloween costumes after three senior girls...
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Younis Khan is unlikely to captain the Pakistan cricket team, amidst speculations that his unavailability to play for the side till September irked the selectors....
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As if defeat in the second test was not enough for the West Indies team, now the team has received another jolt as captain Ramnaresh Sarwan, has been ruled out of the...
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As expected, West Indies appointed middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan as its new captain following Brian Lara’s retirement after the World Cup.
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Inzamam Ul Haq is not a captain of Pakistan anymore but still has quite a saying within the team. He has advised Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to appoint only one...
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According to the former ODI skipper Ajay Jadeja, Sourav Ganguly should be the captain of the team for the World Cup 2007, to be held in West Indies. In Jadeja’s...
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The elegant 28-year-old batsman Younis Khan has been in a good form in Tests since his comeback in October 2004... Averaging a staggering 65 odd from 19 Tests with...
made popular Sep 30 2006
John Terry the maestro defender of English football is pressurized under the heaviest load in England’s football history. He weighs the burden of Captaincy which...
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David Beckham, England football team captian has opened up a football academy in Los Angeles. The academy will admit 15,000 boys and girls, many of them free.
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Rahul Dravid is the new Test captain of Team India. He takes over from Saurav Ganguly who has been unceremoniously deposed from the One Day side and now being stripped...
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Despite their winning streak being snapped in Ahmedabad, India continues to experiment and blood young players in the remaining two one-dayers against Sri Lanka, team...
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In this Dec. 13, 2007 file photo, then-Lt. Tomoaki Iishiba is seen at Camp Sendai, Japan. In a two-paragraph charging document filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, prosecutors wrote that Iishiba bought 60 holographic, night-vision-compatible firearm...
