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Category Archives: selections
Passing The Bat On …
The previous week seems to be the one to have witnessed the passing of quite a few batons. Men’s Tennis might have seen it on Sunday (a bit too early to call, admittedly), the Left parties passed the baton of … Continue reading
Posted in BCCI, Captain, Cricket, Debate, Dhoni, Dravid, IPL, Kumble, Rahul, Sachin Tendulkar, selections
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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
Plans that either come to naught or …
Today Rahul Dravid resigned as captain of Team India. Or offered to. Typically I’d wait till the dust settled and things got clarified about what that means before I wrote a post on something like this but I feel strongly … Continue reading
Posted in Captain, Cricket, Dravid, India, Sachin Tendulkar, selections
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Short handed …
Walking into the third ODI at Edgbaston of what was effectively now a best of 5 ODI series, India should really have had the upper hand psychologically. As it turns out, England have won what ultimately seemed like such an … Continue reading
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B +ve
So One All with 5 to play in the one day circus. One suspects though that even if its coloured by hindsight, the Bristol game was decided as much at the team compositions stage as by the fantastic batting displays … Continue reading
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My Twenty/20 blur …
Even though I’ll say that I could see the Dhoni appointment coming a while ago, and I’ll even give the selectors a bit of credit for it, I’ll admit that the rest of the selections are beyond me. For the … Continue reading
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Dhoni – and India’s Twenty/20 vision …
I’m beginning to lose count and will admit that I’m confusing ODIs and Tests – but lets see now … India’s list of vice captains in the not so recent past – Sachin, VVS, Sehwag, Yuvraj and in the Bangladesh … Continue reading
Posted in BCCI, Clippings, Cricket, Dhoni, India, selections, Twenty20
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Kent instead of Superman….
Model T’s broken down !! Graham Ford’s turned down the BCCI offer …. This is what the Kent website carried yesterday … FORD RETURNS TO THE NEVILL Following reports suggesting that Kent Director of Cricket Graham Ford has been offered … Continue reading
Posted in BCCI, Coaches, controversy, Cricket, India, selections
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Model T …
Ford. Graham Ford. So long as everyone – BCCI, media, fans, bloggers and most importantly Team India – get it clear that Graham Ford is here in the most basic form of the coach (the Model T Ford, if you … Continue reading
Posted in Coaches, Graham Ford, India, selections
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Ford & Emburey …
After my last I-wish-I-wasn’t-so-clever post about the BCCI choosing coaches, I’ll limit this one to someone else’s silly points … This is from the Telegraph in India and its Pat Symcox on Graham Ford – who, says Pat, doesn’t believe … Continue reading
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All good things to those who wait …
We’ve got a Board that justifiably claims to have a monopoly over the receipts of the game. The BCCI realises that Indian eyes on tv sets are what make Ricky Ponting’s Australia Yellow or Rahul Dravid’s India Blue. Without us, … Continue reading
Posted in Coaches, Cricket, Debate, General, India, Ravi Shastri, selections
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Sometimes I wonder ….
We (as in India) are said to be long struggling with an opening combination. And if most people say so, its probably right. And I don’t delve into statistics too deeply but a lot of people do. So here’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Debate, India, selections, Trivia
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Ind v B’desh – 1st Test – & the I.V.Y. league
End of day 2 and we’re 384-6 – its been 97 overs of play when there should have been about twice as many. We’ve got them at about 4 an over. The “rest” seems to have done Sachin and Ganguly … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, Cricket, Dravid, India, selections
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Success has many fathers but failure …
In a foreword to the eminently readable Coach, Bill Bradley (among other things a Rhodes Scholar, Olympic Gold Medallist, ten year professional with the New York Knicks, US Senator for 22 years and a candidate for Democratic Nomination for President), says … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Greg Chappell, India, Irfan Pathan, selections
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The “Rest” is History…
Last night, the BCCI working committee selection committee, announced the team for the Bangladesh tour. Three ODIs and two Tests. Here it is. ODI Team : Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthapa, Virendra Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh … Continue reading
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Nothing Gold Can Stay …
In 1983, long before they were big movie stars - Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, C Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise – all acted together in a movie. Its one of the better movies I’ve seen. … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, General, Retirements, Roebuck, selections
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Moody’s Blues …
My first thought when I heard that Sri Lanka were going into “big game” without Murali and Vaas was that it was a tactical masterstroke. It showed to me that Tom Moody and Mahela were confident that this was indeed … Continue reading
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Spot the difference.
Speaking at a function to announce the dates of the Afro Asian Cup (Cricket for Unity, if you please), the very honourable BCCI Vice President Mr Rajiv Shukla says that no directive has been issued to the National Selectors about … Continue reading
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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
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