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Musings of mauled minds 2008-07-28 11:08:00 Dented pride? Wounded ego? Tarnished reputation? Well, that's no-brainer. After Murali and Mendis molested them in broad day light, you needed Doosra, the closest you have to a clairvoyant, to find out exactly what passed through the mind of those Indian batsmen who went through the trauma.Rahul Dravid: Well, it’s never wise to pick up a fight with someone who has been an army gunner till the ot Read more:minds
, Musings
Men in White: Necessary Evils or Jetsam? 2008-07-23 01:57:00 Neville Cardus felt umpires are as good as bathroom geyser. “We cannot do without it, yet to notice it only when it is out of order.” In the same piece, he went on to mourn “The umpires are the Dogberrys of the game. We see them as essentially comic characters. Whenever a batsman swipes to leg and hits the umpire in the small of the back, how the crowd roars! If the wind blows the hat of Read more:Necessary
, White
Of Nadal, asteroid and an Indian XI 2008-07-20 22:28:00 The other day, Rafael Nadal
, that veritable Spanish bull on two legs, had an asteroid
named after him. Here goes an Indian XI and things that could have been named after them: Irfan Pathan = MeteorAjit Agarkar = Comet Virender Sehwag = Aircraft Safety Hazard Sourav Ganguly = Kamikaze Planes/ Nail Clipper Rahul Dravid = Defence Headquarters Sachin Tendulkar = Peaks/Na
The curious case of Irfan Pathan 2008-07-17 09:28:00 According to a recent survey, around 75,000 children have been identified as missing across India in the last one year. Alas, you never get data about cricketers who take the obscurity-prominence-oblivion route. Let’s admit, Irfan Pathan has become an anachronism, though that was not supposed to be the case with an otherwise immensely likeable chap with a disarming smile. An obituary to his c
Entering the Dragon: Doosra takes Olympic break 2008-08-03 22:03:00 Decks were cleared some six months back and here I’m off to my date with the Dragon
. It’s official, for the next 20-0dd days cricket would take the proverbial backseat in my scheme of things.Beijing beckons. So, I would not rave about Mendis’ bag of tricks, marvel at Sehwag’s apparent brainlessness, rue Dravid’s comatose batting, ridicule county cricket or lampoon Lalit Modi. Inste Read more:Olympic
EXLCUSIVE! Roy Speaks to Doosra! 2008-09-14 23:08:00 Those who thought the Dragon has gulped me down with generous dose of authentic Chinese tea, I must say it was a premature celebration. The following Andrew Symonds exclusive interview explains my prolonged absence from blogosphere. My childhood angling experience taught me it’s never easy to catch fish, and even tougher to catch people catching fish. But anyway, my hard work finally bore fruit
OZ vs BP XI...Day Four 2008-10-05 00:40:00 1040: Yuvraj just completed his 100. I'm itching to pat him on the back and kick further six inches down as well. He's outrageously, almost obscenely talented and blasphemously endowed. The space was crammed with so much of flair that discipline had to be left out, I guess. Here he's posing security threats to low-flying aircrafts, launching Krejza and Clarke on orbits. Twice the ball got out of s Read more:Day Four
Oz vs BP XI...Day Three 2008-10-04 00:00:00 1000: Chawla and Ojha tweaking Oz tail. The damage is more than just their bowling figures. I think Punter & Party would go into the Test series with mauled minds and battered confidence. Kumble surely owes a drink to the spin twin. For the Ozzies, they are trembling in their boot, looking as comfortable as someone whose hands are tied with a colony of cockroaches marching over him.1136: I think s Read more:Three
Oz vs BP XI...Day Two 2008-10-03 00:26:00 1026: Protege Pathan must be giving Guru Greg a reason to feel vindicated. Oz attack banging head against brickwall to polish the BP tail. I can see Kumble grinning. Pathan almost exhausted all his luck today before Clark saw his back.1051: Just witnessed the Sidhu-made-famous Rajendra Talkies cycle stand of Patiala here in Uppal. The same batsmen who were swatting whatever the Aussies hurled at t
Live Oz vs BP XI match...day one 2008-10-02 01:44:00 (What Neo won't show and Cricinfo won't tell)1214: Feel like talking more about the lunch than the match. As it happens every time, Aussies grabbed three quick wickets to take upper hand. Yuvraj y'day said he has a point to prove, something he has not done yet. I mean he hit through mid-off, third man and mid-on. One past/through point too, please.1231: Exactly 17 minutes after I submitted my requ
Chasing Ozzies in Hyderabad 2008-10-01 09:05:00 1135: Covered all major players in y'day's media interaction. Shane Watson's candour and Michael Clarke's clarity of thought impressed most. Clarke showed me all but one of his tattoos. Hayden surprisingly came across soft-spoken. Brett Lee confirmed he is working on an album. 'Right now, I'm busy writing the songs mate.' 1235: Reached Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Uppal. The exterior is not impressive Read more:Chasing
Live Irani Trophy Updates...Day 4 2008-09-27 00:03:00 1033: Sehwag-Gone-Home episode has stirred the hornet's nest here. Some claim he was unhappy with poor accommodation, some claimed he was bitter after Munaf abused him. Talked to DDCA Sports Secretary Sunil Dev, who returned by the same flight y'day and he says Sehwag had a migraine and hence he gone back. Braveheart Gambhir menwhile wages a lone battle.1431: Well, the match is over and Rest of In Read more:Trophy
Live Irani Trophy Updates...Day 3 2008-09-25 23:51:00 1022: It's drinks out there and tea for me. The tea served in the Press Box reflects the prosperity of Gujarat -- thick, full cream milk and 'kuncham kuncham' elaichi as well.1112: Chetanya Nanda resembles Kunal Kapur of 'Rang De Basanti' fame, isn't it? Fellow long-hair Ishant Sharma keeps reminding me of Mowgli. And they say Dhoni can play Tarzan.1146: MS Dhoni probably realises if there is any Read more:Trophy
Live Irani Trophy Updates at Doosra...Day 2 2008-09-25 00:54:00 (Those who want to follow the scores live, you've typed the wrong URL. Those who want things that Neo TV won't show and Cricinfo won't report, welcome aboard. Oops, forgot to say, Doosra reports live from Vadodara IPCL Stadium)1110 hrs: R P Singh makes peace with sparse crowd. Half an hour back, he was shouting at someone 'Arre, sightscreen ke saamne kya kar raha hai? Hat ja". A few people were hu Read more:Trophy
Ind vs Oz...Day 5 2008-10-21 04:41:00 1513: 91 minutes and 18.4 overs and nothing to live update! It's all over, covers are off, they are sprinkling water on the 22-yard that was the centrestage of the drama that lasted a little over four days. Ponting admitted Australia are not accustomed to leading 0-1 in a Test series. And that they are not accustomed to be beaten like this. And that there is no rift between him and Brett Lee. 1525
Ind vs Oz...Day 4 2008-10-19 23:22:00 1003: After Haddin and Hayden grassed and Ponting leaked, Australian are suddenly making atonements by throwing themselves around. Suddenly they realise it's the cricket board which takes care of their laundry bills!1108: Drooping shoulder, increasing frustration. Ponting finally injects some life and brings in Mike Hussey to roll his arm over. Last time Hussey was seen bowling was when Hillary Cl
Ind vs Oz...Day 3 2008-10-18 23:53:00 1024: Welcome to What Neo Won't Show and Cricinfo Won't Report (WNWSACWR). Wait for me to grab a syrup-spiked coffee before I get going.1025: Having survived twice, Hussey completed his hat-trick today. But just before he exhausted lifetime of luck in this match, Dhoni finally holds on to one. It would have taken some talent although to drop that. Mowgli (Ishant, for the uninitiated) elated.1029:
Ind vs Oz...Day 2 2008-10-17 23:08:00 0920: Welcome to WNWSACWR (What Neo Won't Show and Cricinfo Won't Report). Munaf Patel and RP Singh in the middle -- in other words, play yet to start.0948: Ganguly faced a couple of balls and suddenly went AWOL, leaving behind the clueless fielders and baffled umpires. I sniffed delaying tactics, a friend suggested nature's call. Before speculation took obnoxious turn, here he's back. Man, India
Ind vs Oz...Day 1 2008-10-16 23:10:00 0930: Welcome to WNWSACWR, in other words, What Neo Won't Show And Cricinfo Won't Report.0940: Peter Siddle just sent down his first delivery in Test cricket, which reared off like an ill-tempered mule and whacked Gambhir on the helmet. Gambhir apparently has not lost his memory and recognises Sehwag. Sigh of relief across the stadium.1021: The nearest cricket stadium was some 700km away. So my en
Ind vs Eng ODI Live Update from Kanpur 2008-11-19 20:56:00 0827: Welcome to WNWSACWR (What Neo Won't Show and Cricinfo Won't Report). Waking up groggy at ungodly hours and making your way through a maze of security is never easy. Some people still retain their zeal-- like Ravi Shastri out there, trying to flirt with the Neo babe, the neonate in cricket broadcasting.0837: The guy (I mean Guy the Gorrilla) who wanted to sent his mom-in-law to Pakistan is o Read more:Update
Thanks for the Dadagiri 2008-11-14 12:09:00 If Indian cricket is Bollywood, Sachin Tendulkar is its Amitabh Bachchan, who refuses to age or wane and M S Dhoni, its SRK – the urbane, glib-talking heartthrob.I bet he’s not going to like this but Sourav Ganguly has been its Mithun Chakraborty.Daily chores over, rickshaw-pullers, labourers, coolies and small shopkeepers throng dingy theatres in nondescript towns where Mithun badmouths baddi Read more:Thanks
Take a bow, Jumbo 2008-11-03 06:12:00 Jokes, like jokers, have a limited entertainment value, beyond which they don't amuse, only annoy. Having wagged indefatigably for 18 long years, finally no impish tongue would ask in jest whether Anil Kumble is the fastest slow bowler or the slowest fast bowler.The subsequent avalanche of applauds was inevitable, perhaps equally so was overlooking the message sent out by the man who just walked Read more:Jumbo
Mohali Test...Day 5 2008-12-22 23:22:00 1052: What do you do when fog delaying start of play becomes a ritual? Tendulkar works on a doosra (No big deal, I too work on a Doosra anyway), Laxman realises he can send down decent medium pace stuff, Botham fools around, Harmison comes off a self-imposed exile to make a rare pubilc appearance and Anderson proves his dexterity and tries left-arm spin.1157: The imposter out there in Gambhir's ga
Mohali Test...Day 4 2008-12-21 21:42:00 0912: Only a superman with his x-ray vision can sight the pitch in such thick fog. Even the track has slipped under a blanket. Wish I could afford such luxury. The frisking just outside the stadium borders on groping and the thought of going through that for five straight days is pretty unnerving. Supersopper mopping the outfield dew, some shadowy figures playing football, could be the Indians. KP
Mohali Test...Day 3 2008-12-20 21:30:00 0900: Fog delays start. Umpire Daryl Harper says he'll inspect the pitch as soon as he sights it! Pietersen, meanwhile, tries to play cricket with a football. To be honest, you can't sight a smaller ball in such fog. Dhoni & Co, meanwhile, get into the Great Indian Huddle where Kirsten checks if Munaf Patel has brushed his teeth.1010: Has David 'Bumble' Lloyd converted to Islam? He seemed offering
Mohali Test...Day 2 2008-12-19 21:31:00 0901: Since landing, returning and landing again in India, England has won only hearts and nothing else. See how string of defeats derange English mind. It's so foggy out there -- in fact the Test is yet to see sun -- but Pietersen still has his shades with him! Not covering his eyes of course but doubling up as hair band. Considering how closely cropped his hair is, it's a shade unnecessary.0947:
Mohali Test...Day 1 2008-12-18 21:38:00 0909: Welcome to WNWSACWR (What Neo Won't Show and Cricinfo Won't Report, for the uninitiated). The sky is laden and light is so low that upire Daryl Harper is groping in his pocket for the light metre. Finally it's out but Harper is struggling to read the reading. The press box, however, looks more illuminated, more so with the presence of Mike Brearley, Mike Atherton, Angus Fraser and the massiv
7 cricketers who deserve Doctorate, à la Dr Sania Mirza 2008-12-14 23:13:00 As UN names an Intergovernmental Panel to figure out what really provoked the MGR Educational and Research Institute University, Chennai to accord Doctorate
on SaniaMirza
, Doosra lists seven Indian contemporary cricketers who thoroughly deserve the prefix.1. Dr Sachin Tendulkar: For his contribution to medical science. Tennis elbow came into being only after Tendulkar was diagnosed with it. Curre Read more:Sania Mirza
7 reasons why Dhoni has applied for a gun 2008-12-10 11:43:00 1. Dhoni
realises World Cup is a bagatelle, a mere trinket in comparison to Olympic medal. And by the time cricket returns to Olympics, Dhoni won’t be wielding willow but walking stick. Bindra (not IS, but Abhinav) has shown the way in Beijing and MSD wants to follow in his footsteps.2. MSD knows how fickle lady love can be. A gun would pre-empt love triangle, quadrangle and similar headaches of Read more:applied
Return of the prodigal son 2008-12-06 01:41:00 Srikkanth to Pujara:Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. (Luke 15:32).That 6,6,6,6,6,6 over in Kingsmead was surely more glorious than feeding pigs. Nor can one equate leading Kings XI Punjab to the swineherd’s job. Still, Yuvraj’s comeback sto Read more:Return
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