Vijay Narayanan on March 26th, 2007

Sorry, Team Bangladesh, for the earlier post. And thank you very much for putting cricket first!

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Vijay Narayanan on March 24th, 2007

To the Indian cricket team: It’s okay. We lost, so what? It’s just a game. No one died. You didn’t go around asking us to support you. It’s really our mistake that we chose to hype you up and heap pressure on you. According to some rankings, the team was 8th in the world, so [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on March 24th, 2007

Okay, as expected, India have lost to Sri Lanka. Of the defeat, the lesser said the better. But, don’t count India out of the World Cup yet! The powers that be of Indian and world cricket know all too well that the money and viewership for this sport comes primarily from the subcontinent. Come on, [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on March 24th, 2007

Despite being bashed handsomely by Habibul Bashar on comments that India were 20 to 30 runs short, it is learnt that Dravid has still not let go of his usual comment. After the loss to Sri Lanka, I bet he would have said, “We were short by 70 runs… er.. yeah!”

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Vijay Narayanan on March 23rd, 2007

With a view to get back home before the start of the game, a couple of friends and I were rushing to catch the first bus from office. We had to pass a lady, who didn’t seem to have any worries about the India – Sri Lanka tie, and was walking really slowly. When we [...]

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