Cricket
After months of anticipation, the Indian Premier League kicked off today with a meek surrender by the Bangalore Royal Challengers, whose batting was neither royal, nor seemed like posing any challenge to the others teams in the league. Kolkata, in contrast, turned out to be awesome (though I am not impressed by their team name). [...]
India are chasing 499 for victory. We have two days to get there, to rewrite Test history. But one man can write a script totally unexpected – Rahul Dravid. At stumps on day 3, Dravid was batting on 3 off 30 deliveries, a scoring rate well above that in the previous inning, where he managed [...]
Shane Warne has compiled his list of the top 50 cricketers, for The Times. The final ten has 5 cricketers from Australia (Warnie hasn’t included his name in the list), but there are no prizes for guessing who’s numero uno: You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar [...]
A Texan billionaire has pledged $100 million over a period of three years to improve the game of cricket in the Caribbean. Allen Stanford believes that the expanded Stanford 20/20 tournament to be held in early 2008 will be a “life-changing experience”. The prizemoney up for grabs is $2.9 million. That is huge for a [...]
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Over here, Vatsan argues that BCCI should break away from the ICC and fix major tournaments to ensure an Indian victory. Whereas you can treat that as a comment made in a lighter vein, it is hard to separate BCCI’s rise to dominance of world over the past decade from India’s own economic growth. For [...]
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