I’ve never quite liked Charu Sharma’s moderation. A little too smug for his own good on television. But he’s refreshing to have around when idiocy is starring on television. The other night on NDTV, Latika Khaneja, Ajay Jadeja, and Ram Madhvani were tossing up various reasons why the league would and wouldn’t work. Madhvani almost fell [...]
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Posted in IPL, cricket, tagged cricket, Dad, IPL, Sony on February 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Make the whole thing electronic and put it on live TV. Give the bidders booklets on strengths and weaknesses. Throw up numbers on the players being bid for before the bidding for the player starts. Live analysis.”
I totally agree. Sony missed out on seriously high TRPs.
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Posted in IPL, cricket, tagged cricket, IPL, Kallis on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
But it’s already so exciting. Sid Monga of Cricinfo records IS Bindra gushing, “It’s my privilege to be associated with something that is unique in world cricket. I have never seen anything so riveting and so absorbing and so exciting even on the field. It’s amazing drama.”
I know where he’s coming from.
Two things. One: Does the $900,000 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cricket, travel on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
This isn’t entirely a cricket blog, although you wouldn’t be able to tell from the posts up so far. Oh well, time to travel. That’ll give me something else to think about.
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Shakester wrote in response to an earlier post ‘The League’s Ripples‘:
The future you talk of is still a while away. Its not unthinkable, and probably likely; but it will be a few years before a league of this sort can start killing the long standing draw of nation v nation encounters. By then- assuming such a [...]
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Posted in IPL, cricket, tagged cricket, ICL, IPL, modi on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
IPL can do many wonderful things, but Modi isn’t fine with just that. He now believes that IPL will put an end to football’s incursions into India. Sometimes you wonder if Enron sent a consignment of their favorite weed to these clowns. They want a free market which they control. They milk the publicity of mammoth deals [...]
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Posted in IPL, cricket, tagged averages, cricket, IPL on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
The possibilities are so amazing. Think of all the mixing and matching that can go on when money meets talent. I wonder if they’ll introduce the substitutions rule discussed earlier. In any case, there’s a great opportunity for all sorts of technicians and number-crunchers now. TA Sekar’s already taken by GMR of the Delhi franchise. [...]
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Posted in Tibet, tagged Tibet, Tsundue on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Tsundue had their attention this afternoon at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The kids wanted to hear more about his impending march across north India. “If they detain us, that’s okay. When we are released, we will continue. If they beat us, let them. The march will go on. By the time it ends in [...]
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Here’s an old series by Jeffrey Goldberg in the New Yorker, in which he describes Hezbollah’s plans. Writings about events date quickly, but this mag is something else.
The first part:
Like the rest of the town, the park was crowded with ferocious Hezbollah art. One poster showed an American flag whose field of stars had been [...]
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Posted in cricket, tagged cricket, Dhoni, Sharma on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The effort Dhoni puts into his shots is more apparent when Rohit Sharma bats with him. Sharma slinks around the crease while Dhoni gets his feet out of the way. Sharma skips down the wicket, and Dhoni charges. And good lord, their cover drives. Dhoni hurls himself into that shot so hard that he leaves his skin behind.
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