Hey guys,
There is no one more passionate about cricket than Indians,
So, am I wrong when I say that we should not play with cheats…..
Of course, who else, I mean the Australians..
First day, Andrew Symonds does not walk.. I understand its no cake walk… but it certainly proves the dude’s honesty… especially when agrees to it later…!
Second, Singh is a racist…
Well… well… a Sardar brought up in Punjab post independence is a racist.
He has been through all the terrorism and experienced the toughest terrains of war in Asia is a racist…!
He who knows history and lives in a secular nation with about a 1000 castes and creeds and entertains a Muslim or a Hindu as his own brother is a racist.
Believe it….?
Well, I don’t..!
Who knows,… Australians only known for their beer and white skin understand racism better probably..
Icing on the cake…
Final day of 2nd test at Sydney…
Rahul Dravid is out?
Yuvraj Singh is out?
Saurav Ganguly is out?
Well… bad umpiring..
I don’t think so..
If the quality of umpiring is poor…
Why should it go only the Australian way….?
The umpiring is fixed…. Who knows… could be..!
Betting?
Don’t know…
But after what Sunil Gavaskar says…
I wouldn’t agree with him more..
Australians are cheats and to the core including the captain.
He grounds a catch and appeals… (Dhoni)
Clark (4th day) does not walk when he sees the catch is being taken while batting and he grounds the ball and says Ganguly is out… Ponting certifies.. believe it or not.. the captain..!
Well,… Well
Sorry, Chappels, Borders and Waughs…
But, Ricky is no comparison and has brought Australian cricket to disrepute and probably ended up inculcating cheating in the dressing room…
The baggy cap no longer rules and if it does, it does so by crook..
Should India boycott the series…
High time the powers to be decided…!
value4money
January 6th, 2008
Amjid have been a great fighter and hard working player and he performed well in the past for his teams and also for Hong Kong too, but how come he is not in the twenty -20 squad for kuwait or HK sixes.
http://www.cricinfo.com/db/NATIONAL/ICC_MEMBERS/HKG/
Also one more player Tauseef Bukhari who have been perfoming since years and a good talented cricketer who have been awraded for “the Most Improved player of Lamma Crciket Club” are completely ignored in selection.
http://cricket-fans.freehomepage.com/
There are many players like few players selected who are not that much experience and talented but becaus ethey play for some HKCA executive’s team and they got in or some are working in some selector’s office. This kind of routine is really not help full for HK cricket future.
October 20th, 2007
Sambit Bal
England v India was Test cricket as it ought to be: tough, hard-fought, and full of spark
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In the end the margin of 1-0, it could be argued, was a fair way for the series to end. England were the superior side at Lord’s and India dominated the last two Tests. Speculation is futile, but if it hadn’t been a draw at Lord’s, the Oval Test would possibly have yielded a result, most likely in India’s favour. But draws aren’t necessarily dull, and this was an enthralling series. More importantly it was Test cricket as it ought to be: tough, challenging, skilful, full of crackle and contest, and bends and surprises.
In many ways this was a most un-Indian victory. It wasn’t achieved through a burst of brilliance or glittering individual performances, and there was nothing freakish about it. It […]
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October 19th, 2007
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
Rahul Dravid’s knock was reminiscent of his one-day innings in the late nineties, when batting became an almighty struggle
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Watching Rahul Dravid during his 96-ball 12 was to see a captain ponder with the bat. The tedious innings, drawn out over two hours and twenty minutes, encapsulated his decision not to enforce the follow-on: defensive but perfectly understandable.
When England were bowled out, with the sun still out, India led by 319; when he walked out to bat, with the cloud cover on, they were effectively 329 for 1, few minutes later it was 330 for 3. The big picture remained rosy, the microscopic view slightly more blurred. India sitting on a 1-0 lead, England hadn’t totalled more than 355 in the whole series and no team had successfully chased more than 263 at The Oval. Only on five occasions […]
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October 19th, 2007
Sambit Bal
Wide of the mark: Ian Howell had a dreadful time at Trent Bridge, and has made plenty of mistakes at The Oval as well
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It is a pity that matters outside bat and ball should continue to spoil what has so far been wonderful advertisement for Test cricket. The first Test was decided by the weather, and the second, which was won by a skilful and determined performance by the Indians, was overshadowed by jelly beans, player behaviour and inconsistent umpiring. And it will be a tragedy if umpiring becomes a decisive factor in this Test.
Umpires deserve plenty of sympathy. Theirs is a thankless vocation and they are noticed only for their mistakes. Their actions are judged and damned by experts, journalists, and millions of viewers who now have the benefit of hugely sophisticated cameras and technologies such as […]
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October 19th, 2007
Sport and politics will never be separated
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Gary Lemke
It was almost 20 years ago that I first met Sam Ramsamy. I went to interview him in a flat near Marble Arch in London and what followed was an hour-long lecture from the grand fighter of the anti-apartheid movement. The message was consistent, and powerful. “No normal sport in an abnormal society,” he would say at regular intervals.
He had another line. “Sport and politics will never be separated.” The Ramsamy dream turned from matters black and white into a kaleidoscope of colour when South Africa competed under a unified flag at the Olympics in 1992 following a 32-year absence. He called me over on that Boeing to Barcelona 15 years ago. “This is what I was talking about. Now it’s normal sport in a normal society.”
Today 14 elite South African cricketers […]
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October 19th, 2007
Mohammad Yousuf’s exclusion is bathed in innuendo, with reporters winking, nudging and whispering, as no doubt will many followers
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Osman Samiuddin
Nothing illustrates more lucidly the mysterious, whimsical workings of Pakistan selection committees than the decision not to select Mohammad Yousuf in the 15-man squad for the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa.
They tried, bless ‘em, to justify the decision to drop him but they came up empty. Yousuf was, in the words today of Salahuddin Ahmed, the chief selector, “a world-class player, no two ways about it.” He is also currently Pakistan’s best batsman and, as Ricky Ponting proves every day, a good batsman is a good batsman is a good batsman, be it over five days, 50 overs or 20. Yet, Yousuf did not make it into a 15-man squad with only two specialist middle-order batsmen.
First the selectors claimed […]
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October 19th, 2007
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