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Tag Archives: Sachin Tendulkar
The Aussiefication
If you were a fan of a cricket team other than the Aussie teams of the nineties and the early oughts, you know the feeling — Your team makes early inroads in to the strong Aussie batting lineup including greats … Continue reading
Ten Things about Group Captain Sachin Tendulkar
On September 3, 2010, Indian batting ace, Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF) for his contribution to cricket. Instead of an honorary award, what if he really was … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
Tagged Australia, Don Bradman, Group Captain, India, Indian Air Force, Kapil Dev, Mumbai, Pakistan, Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne, South Africa, Titan Cup
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Sehwag – The Inimitable Genius
Way back in the early Oughts, Prem Panicker, used to have an online talk-chat show called “Panix Station” (before podcast was even part of the public parlance) where people could send questions in by email. The show’s producer would read … Continue reading
Posted in Test Match Cricket
Tagged Aakash Chopra, Australia, Chennai, England, India, MCG, Prem Panicker, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Welegedera, Yuvraj Singh
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Shit gets wickets
While playing for my university in the U.S., one of my mates, James who is an Aussie, after almost every time he would pick up a wicket, would say, “Shit gets wickets”. That was a brutally honest opinion from him … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged Australia, Kamran Akmal, Marcus North, Pakistan, Sachin Tendulkar, Salman, Shahid, Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Simon Katich, Test Match Sofa, Umar Akmal
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What does India need to do?
The Cricket World Cup to be hosted jointly in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is only a little more than 7 months away. Currently, Indian team is involved in a pointless Asia cup final playing Sri Lanka, yet again. They … Continue reading
Who’s Next?
*This column is cross-posted at my column in CricAges* If for one fleeting moment, we can push the hullabaloo from India’ disappointing T20 world cup campaign and the debacle of the second unit in Zimbabwe aside, we can actually see … Continue reading
The Ewing Theory in Cricket
**This article has been cross-posted at The Big Tip** Back in 1998 or thereabout, when ESPN, The worldwide leader in sports, was launching its website, it recruited sports writers and bloggers to enrich the website’s content. While doing so, it … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
Tagged Bill Simmons, ESPN, Mumbai Indians, Patrick Ewing, Sachin Tendulkar, THe Ewing Theory, The Sports Guy, Twenty20 World cup, World cup, World Cup 2011
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Autobiographies
Recently I came in possession of a few books on cricket, including a biography and an autobiography. That made me think what the titles would be if some of the Indian cricketers decided to put their lives on print. Irfan … Continue reading
He is like this only
Sachin Tendulkar was in Pune for laying the foundation stone for a hospital. Answering a query on whether the parties should be blamed for India’s debacle at the T20 World Cup, he said: While the issue of IPL parties being … Continue reading
All Time Test XI – India
Cricinfo has been running a feature called All Time XI where various analysts, former players, cricket historians and writers form a panel that selects all time XI. So far the All time XI have been rolled out for Australia, Sri … Continue reading