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Category Archives: Media
Cricket according to Clarkson …
Have been reading ‘The World According to Clarkson’ written by Jeremy Clarkson. He writes a weekly column in The Sunday Times and is better known to BBC viewers as the anchor of Top Gear. His writing style is witty, irreverent … Continue reading
What the Doctor ordered …
XYZ Newswire: May XX 20xx Doctor Vijay Mallya hit the nail on its head, pierced the bull’s eye and put his finger on the problem all at once when he commented, “At the end of the day people need to … Continue reading
The fab four and our fickleness…
Its not a prompt start to the Trent Bridge Test and sure enough the discussions wander off to the topic thats always kept on simmer these days. The fab four. Ten days ago, just ahead of the Lords Test they … Continue reading
Posted in BCCI, Coaches, controversy, Cricket, Debate, Dravid, India, Media, Roebuck, Sachin Tendulkar, Zee
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Mandela – Gandhi & the BCCI …
Call it the love of the underdog if you will. Or the sheer amazement that the superpower is the underdog. But I love it when the BCCI wins little battles. Even more when nobody acknowledges the victories. Make no mistake … Continue reading
A Few Good Men …
I eat breakfast three television yards away from four thousand bloggers who are trained to pick me off. So don’t think for one second that you can come down here, flash a bit of cricket knowledge, and make me nervous. … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Media, Not Cricket
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Writings on The Wall …
Graham Ford’s Runaway Bride act (for thats the politest one can be) has done this. Its turned the focus solely on Rahul Dravid. This is going to be his summer. It will have to be. It had to be that … Continue reading
Just nod if you can hear me ….
Since people visiting here seem to come from somewhat of a similar bandwidth as moi often (sorry for the morning jibe !) , and since popular search words to get to the site include “Rohit Brijnath” (and err ..rambha), and … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Dreams, Media
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Tiger ….
Tiger Pataudi on Karan Thapar’s Devil’s Advocate.. Tiger’s always been a say-it-like-it-is commentator on the game. And Karan Thapar’s interview style of trying to put words into his guests’ mouth (as opposed to listening and trying to veer an interview), … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, India, Media
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A messy week ahead …
The big weekend is out of the way and what do we have ? More questions than answers really. This whole seniors issue which is as much media created as it is real though promises to be the biggest firecracker … Continue reading
Posted in BCCI, Greg Chappell, India, Media, selections
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Saturday Night …
So the BCCI meet is over .. and this is what we have as a statement from them. A lot of it is the blueprint they look for which one can revisit as the days go by. Important near term … Continue reading
Posted in BCCI, Cricket, India, Media, Rahul, Ravi Shastri
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Greg, Tone it Down ….
Ok, This is going to be my last Rohit Brijnath post. (for the day!) And this time I’m not just going to link it. (In case at some stage in the future the link’s lost, I’m gonna cut and paste … Continue reading
Posted in Clippings, Cricket, Greg Chappell, India, Media, Rohit Brijnath
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This is media too …
Rohit Brijnath , whose writings have always tried to capture the best that sports has to offer and the best that offer to sport, wrote this piece a few years ago. Just around the time India was setting out with … Continue reading
Posted in General, India, Media, Rohit Brijnath
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In defence of the media..
Greg Chappell Quit. And thats over and done with. And its time to move on. Mainstream media will just have to find a new horse to flog. And they’ll probably get one as the events of the weekend pan out. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Greg Chappell, India, Media
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Media makes the fan …
Ironically, in a piece on his blog called Death of a Game, Rajdeep Sardesai provides a cricket loving mediaperson’s perspective of what should be. Somewhere in the piece, the love for the game comes through. Here’s hoping that there’s going … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Media, Sachin Tendulkar
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