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The New Ventures of the ICC
The International Cricket Council or The ICC as it is known by its popular acronym has in the past few years two main jobs. 1. To follow the BCCI meekly in whatever it says or does; and 2...
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Mumbai & The Mets
I doubt many of you read The Guardian but I thought this was kind of cool perspective. (Excerpts below). Personally I feel the whole Piazza as hero thing has been way overblown (the dude hit ...
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Australia Recommence Winning Ways
Recording an impressive 2-0 series win against New Zealand, Australia restored cricketing maxim, but the real test will be against the incoming South Africans...
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The World Beyond Inspiring Words
Everyone who believes that the English tour continuing would ‘send a strong message to the terrorists’ and ‘express solidarity with the Indians’ has to be complemented ...
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Cricket: Terrorism Threatens India’s Hegemony
Any discussion on whether England should continue their tour to India needs to consider the following points: the team had been staying in the Taj Mahal hotel the week before...
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Terror and Sport: Will England Return to India?
Following the horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai this week the England cricket team face a monumental decision on whether to return to India to play cricket or not. The England team returned on Saturday to consider their options...
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ASBOS For Australian Cricket?
Will Anti-Social Behavior Orders (ASBOS) Reform Australian Cricket ? There are plenty of bad jokes around about Australia's heritage and history as a penal colony...
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Cricketers: Sportsmen Or Supermen?
Almost every sport played at the professional level has a definite season charted out before it. This in turn acts as a pre-determined timetable before the players such that they have a perfect balance of active and passive work life...
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The Future Looks Bright for India
With the Indian Cricket Team starting to come to the forefront of the cricketing world, people are paying more attention to the talent available to them...
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Cricket For Dummies: A Footballer's Guide
Cricket is a sport. Like football. It’s not hard to understand, but for those who never watch it can be about as fun as chemistry class (that is, if you’re not a nerd). Teams, points and stumps...
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Duckworth-Lewis Method: Cricket Fair Play Or Another Complication?
In football, you see the players out on the ground, no matter what. Be it rain, storm or snow. Cricket, isn’t as rough. It’s a tiring game no doubt and sure does test your stamina...
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Aussies In Transition: The Decline of The Best
Since the 2006/07 Ashes series the Australians have lost many key players and it seems that this is finally starting to hit back at them...
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Could Offensive Slogan Reignite West Indies Cricket?
The social order in the ‘British’ Caribbean was carved out of slavery in the period 1650-1838. Its main industry was sugar; its ownership was British, and workforce African...
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Who's After Gilchrist?
What does "wicket-keeping" mean?Wicket-keeping is a task for which players are barely praised even though they show some praiseworthy performance, but if they make any mistake they are criticized much and blamed by the fans...
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Cricketing Captains: Leading From the Front
Cricket might be played with 11 players, but the one person who is responsible for making or breaking a team is the captain...
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Mr. Gavaskar: Please BURY That Hatchet
Maybe am left centrist in my values, but I have always had a problem with Sunny Gavaskar. Make no mistake, barring the 36 not out (in 60 overs), he was and still continues to be one of the most successful batsmen in the history of the game...
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Indian Heat Too Hot to Handle for the English Boys?
After the success against the Australians in the five match Border-Gavaskar test series, the Indian Cricket team is giving its fans more and more reasons to smile...
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Time to Celebrate Test Cricket's Diversity
I have been quite surprised to read the obituaries for test cricket that have been penned by numerous distinguished commentators. Apparently the 8-1 field that MS Dhoni set on the third morning of the final test was the proverbial nail in the coffin...
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Australian Backlash Looming In The Horizon
India winning and retaining the Border-Gavaskar trophy by defeating the Australians 2-0 has raised speculations and questions among cricket buffs that the Australian might is on the way of perishing...
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Is it a Change of Gaurd at the Helm in Cricket?
Change, it is said is the only thing that is constant. Australian cricket 'seemed’ to defy it. From the time Steve Waugh took over from Taylor, there was but one team at the top. In soccer it was the Brazilians before the Italians...
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History of South African Sport: VI. Cricket
Cricket came to South Africa during the Napoleonic Wars and with the British forces occupying South Africa. The first match recorded was in 1808 in Cape Town between two service teams, for a prize of one thousand rix-dollars...
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Gilchrist, Ponting, and The Racism Accusation at Sydney
I guess it is not remarkable that books by players who participated in the series in Australia earlier this year discuss the events surrounding the Sydney Test Match in detail...
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Stanford, A Stepping Stone To The Future
Cricket is about to embark on a brave new world and will have to face up to the ravages of riches that come hand in hand with fame and fortune...
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Kevin Pietersen's Brave New Era
Alas, the English cricketing summer is over. Well, at least, the internationals are over—the county season and the Pro40 Leagues are still to be fought over...
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AB De Villiers: Is He The Next Jonty Rhodes?
Diving catches, quick pick-ups, and direct throws at the wickets, AB de Villiers is one of South Africa's premier fielders and middle order batsman...













