Posted in All Posts, Sports, tagged cricket, cricket world cup, iindian cricket, sachin tendulkar, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, world cup 1996 on March 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ll keep this short. Saw the 1996 India versus West Indies World Cup match yesterday again on television. Some observations…
Azhar is the most graceful Indian cricketer.
How the heck did Shivnarine Chanderpaul become a big player?
Sachin is the same. Those awesome cover drives, the inevitable lives and the charming reaction to bouncers. (100 matches and around [...]
Posted in All Posts, Sports, tagged IPL, IPL retrospective, The three best from IPL on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
59 matches, 43 days and over two thousand overs. The IPL has finally ended, but not without inducing every news channel to constantly brag about it. A lot of action and drama agreed, but the tournament has also given a source of entertainment for the whole family during the evenings. Here are a few “three [...]
Posted in All Posts, Sports, tagged Aftermath of IPL, BCCI, Future of ICL, ICL, IPL, Kapil Dev, Lalit Modi on June 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have seen how the Japanese make expensive but high quality electronic products and how China knocks-off these products and floods the subcontinent. The inception of Indian Premier League (IPL) has just been the reverse. Kapil Dev and co. somehow got the brilliant idea of employing a city-wise cricket tournament which not only will bring [...]
