Early Reports: 27 IPL Players Involved In Match Fixing
News is coming through in drips, but the early reports say that 27 cricketers and 1 administrator have been caught match fixing by the Gover...Read More
Showing posts with label Daftness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daftness. Show all posts
Finger Out, Socks Up
That bombs went off is a deplorable and unpardonable lapse on the part of the security men. That more bombs remained passive can only be att...Read More
Conflict, With Interest
Given India's obsession with the world of celebrities, particularly celebrity feuds, it comes as no surprise that the country is current...Read More
The Useless And The Injured
A tad harsh maybe, given that they're both far better cricketers than I ever was, but the fact remains that Andrew McDonald and Callum F...Read More
IPL3 - A Pleasant Surprise
The IPL Governing Council's Lalit Modi's decision to schedule the opening match of IPL 3 in Mumbai, a home match for Hyderabad...Read More
This time it's Kotlagate
The inability to produce a one-day wicket suitable to international standards should be a story of the past. But the Feroz Shah Kotla (FSK...Read More
US$170 Million & Counting, But Still No Progress
Rs 800 crore (US$170 million) is the BCCI's base valuation for the space on the front and leading arm of Team India's shirts for th...Read More
IPL2 Has Proven As Fake As Lalit Modi
After fifty-something days of enthralling cricket, unscripted drama and raw emotion, Lalit Modi and his cronies give us a gloating, self-ind...Read More
Ranjit & Rameez Simply Do Not Cut It
So I was wrong about the BCCI and their intentions with respect to shifting IPL 2 out of India. In fact, the egotist in me is inclined to ...Read More
Such Are The Ways Of The BCCI
That one can never be sure that what it says is going to happen, will actually happen. Nothing is certain until the first ball of the first ...Read More
BCCI Now Meddling In Sri Lanka
Arjuna Ranatunga allows Sri Lankan ICL players to participate in the Sri Lankan domestic competition - the BCCI grumbles, but makes no move...Read More
BCCI v ICL: All Logic Flies Out The Window
Homer is incensed at the treatment meted out to, now former, Mumbai captain Nilesh Kulkarni. He asks some very valid, if not rhetorical, qu...Read More
Pawar & Morgan Make Arrangement Of Convenience
The dreaded coin toss will not prevail and order has been restored to the lofty corridors of the International Cricket Council. Or has it? T...Read More
BCCI Cops One Tight Slap
Mukul Kesavan opines that the "BCCI comes across as a rich repertory company with a particular talent for farce." I am left with ...Read More
BCCI: Never Bite The Hand That Feeds You
In the BCCI's case, do not bite the hand even if it does not feed you. Current Chairman of the National Cricket Academy (NCA), Kapil Dev...Read More
The Great & The Downright Ugly
I have a lot of time for Mukul Kesavan. He writes in a very readable and lucid manner and is never shy of expressing his opinions, how ever ...Read More
Cricket: Are The Billions Slipping Away?
Anyone keeping abreast of cricket news over the last 18 months would have been well aware of the stoush between the BCCI and the ICC pertai...Read More
Indian Cricket: Common-Sense Is Suggested
No, no. Don't work yourself up into a wild stupor dreaming that BCCI office bearers have finally seen the light. We all know that common...Read More
Indian Cricket: BCCI Doles Out Charity
One can be nothing, if not amused by the contrasting fates of those heavyweights that have managed to keep their place in the Cricket World ...Read More
India Cricket: BCCI Post World Cup Report Card Pt 2
In Part 1 of this series we covered five areas that the BCCI believes need to be improved if Indian cricket is to crawl out of today's ...Read More
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