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Dhoni is back after utilising his break for commercial advantages.

August 9th 2008 04:02

Indian Cricket selectors have dumped Yusuf Pathan and Piyush Chawla from the one day squad.Not very long ago,Younus had played a sterling role towards the victory of Rajasthan Royals.Piyush too had bowled superbly during IPL.They failed miserably in Pakistan; then the condition there was not suited for them.If they are talented and are promising then they should have been retained in the team.
Mahendra Singh "Dhoni" is back after utilising his "rest period" in shooting and fulfilling other commercial obligations.Dhoni took the unprecedented decision to skip the Lanka series citing tiredness.He is barely three years into International Cricket and he is exhausted.Think about Sachin,Rahul and Saurabh who have been there for more than a decade and never complained tiredness.Obviously commercial interest must have been a major factor towards Dhoni's decision.

BCCI recommended Dhoni for Khel Ratna award.He deserves that but was it fair to recommend him before Rahul and Saurabh?These two gentlemen are being deliberately humiliated for not being in cordial terms with the BCCI.Gavasker and Kapil Dev too were subjected to similar humiliation at the fag end of their career.No one can,however,snatch away more than 10 thousand runs that Rahul has scored and he has been part of almost all epic victory that India has managed to clinch in this decade.Rahul Dravid will remain one of the greatest without any award bestowed to him curtsy BCCI.

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Know The People Who Rule Indian Cricket,BCCI.

July 6th 2008 12:46

Rajiv Shukla reminded M.S.Dhoni about the tight scheduling of IPL.He questioned that no body complained then about tight scheduling and other logistic difficulties faced by players.He questioned the motive behind raising such concern at this juncture.
Dhoni had merely highlighted the difficulties of playing back-to-back cricket during Asia cup.Rajiv Shukla pounced upon Dhoni to garner some point and seen close to the power-centre of Indian Cricket.Rajiv Shukla,used this tactics to get entry into the Board of Cricket Control In India as well.He was a shadow of Jagmohan Dalmia and switched loyalty once he was replaced by Sharad Pawar.He was kept in abeyance for some time but eventually he broke into the inner circle.

Mr.Shukla got into politics courtesy one Aaggrawal of U.P.LOKTANTRIC CONGRESS PARTY and once the primary Purpose solved he switched into the Indian Nationl Congress Party and gradually positioned himselef close to Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.One must say that he is the master of networking and has come a long way from his Kanpur days.
Lalit Modi had stole all limelight during IPL which must have caused deep envy to people like Rajiv Shukla.But he must understand one thing that preaching professional players would give him a few minuets of fame but these things irritates millions of Cricket lovers as well.On the other hand if he strives for the betterment of UP Cricket and brings about some positive change then he will have at least some credibility to talk Cricket.That will enhance his profile and make him acceptable to general public also.People of this country are beginning to resist the presence and hold of manipulators and politicians over almost all governing bodies of sports played in this country.
People of this country will no longer allow hangers-on and parasites to rule the roost.Before it is too late these gentlemen should clean their act and do some visible work also.Otherwise Mr.gill have plenty of company of like minded souls.

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Rajasthan Royals emerged victorious of the first edition of the Indian Premier League.

June 2nd 2008 05:29

Rajasthan Royals,led astutely by Shane Warne,held its nerve at the critical moment and stole the single off the last ball of the over to emerge victorious of the first edition of the Indian Premier League.
This victory has magnified the image of Shane Warne manifold.All the pundits are in unison in this regard and consider "Warnie"style of motivating-captain-ship behind the success of the least fancied side of the tournament.
The success of Rajasthan Royals has thrown out many great future prospects for India.Nobody knew about Asondkar and Trivedy but they are firmly on the horizon now.
Shane Watson,with his astounding performence,has emerged the biggest star and he will be a key player to establish Australia as a major twenty20 International force in the very near future.Yousuf Pathan is the next big thing of Indian Cricket.
It is such a sad thing that the genius of Warni was not utilised properly by Cricket Australia.Whatever be the reason,Warne should have been made the captain of team.He would certainly would have taken Cricket Australia to greater heights.

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Rahul Dravid : the most intelligent Indian Cricketer !

March 30th 2008 07:50

[Rahul Dravid,the wall,has entered into the elite club of few who have scored more than 10000 runs.Most of the runs scored by dravid were under extreme and adverse conditions.But for some strange reasons his achievements have always been downplayed.Sometimes for some genuine reasons but mostly they are for keeping the god-like status of Sachin Tendulkar intact.Rahul Dravid is the most intelligent Indian Cricketer after Ravi Shastri.As far as cricketing brain is concerned,there is no match of Rahul Dravid.

No other Indian cricketer has been as unselfish as Rahul Dravid.He has played the most difficult role for the team and always kept Teams' interest above his own personal millstones.But as an ungrateful Indian we tend to dump and forget our heroes very quickly.The treatment he was given is shameful

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Australia has replaced Pakistan !

March 16th 2008 04:56

South African Cricket team is now the number one ranked team of the world as per the official ICC ranking system.They are going to visit India very shortly but there is no buzz in the environment.After the high voltage Australian series the excitement seems to have died down a bit.Hopefully,the South Africans will spark a fresh interest in the series by some audacious Cricket.

Australia has replaced Pakistan as far as the intense rivalry is concerned.There can not be a better sight in cricket then the Bret Lee bowling a fierce spell to Sachin Tendulkar.The way Bret Lee bowled throughout the series is unparalleled as per as visual pleasure goes.Undoubtedly,he is the best visual treat these days and his smiling demeanour makes him very endearing.Strangely ,he was matched by one rookie,Ishant Sharma whom nobody knew a few months ago

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Ponting should respect his own stature now and behave properly !

January 31st 2008 12:10

Ricky Ponting should consider himself very lucky that he got away without being warned or reprimanded for his disruptive role in the Harbhajan Singh-Andrew Symonds murky row.The fresh evidence through the stump mikes have proved that Ponting was coercing the on field umpire to act against Harbhajan Singh when the said umpire had heard nothing himself.It is very clear now that all the event was preplanned and it was weaved to entrap harbhajan in the racial row.It is surprising then that the Australian caption was not hauled up and asked to be honest and sportive in future.
It is a glaring fact that International Cricket Council, ICC, officials like Mark Procter have been discriminating against Indian players for many years now.There have been many instances when Indian players were singled out and reprimanded for the non existent offences committed by them.Where as these officials would overlook the same conduct of white players even after brought to their notice.Rahul Dravid was abused by Allan Donald and Michael Slater but they were not even asked to behave properly.Sachin Tendulkar was accused of ball tampering but Micheal Artherton was not warned for the far more grave offence of that nature.
After the tour of India,Ponting was determined to teach some lessons to Indian players like Harbhajan Singh and others.A conspiracy was hatched and Harbhajan was entrapped.Their strategy was working according to the script and the match referee along with the umpires toed the line they were asked to follow.But in the process they forgot about a certain Sachin Tendulkar.Once Sachin gave clean chit to Harbhajan Singh and urged BCCI to act tough,the whole country took notice of that.The gross neglect of Sachin's version of the event and the apparent bias shown by Mike Procter added fuel to the fire

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The Real Problem Is Mike Procter !

January 11th 2008 06:37

Mike Procter,the very controversial referee of the "fixed" second test between Australia and India, has once again showed the world that how dishonest,immoral,unethical,g reedy,and beastly he can be when it comes to dealing with subcontinental teams.A few years ago this very gentleman had banned the then captain of the Pakistan cricket team for some matches because he had appealed for the catch which had obviously bounced before he( Latif) caught that.

Ricky Ponting and Micheal Clark did the same but this time Procter had no guts to even ask the question.Both claimed the catch which had bounced and that was clear to everyone except Procter.Procter acted blind and did not ban the "cheater-duo".Will he(Procter) apologise to Latif for his racial discriminatory approach now

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Widespread Condemnation Of The Australian Cricket !

January 6th 2008 14:07

Ricki Ponting has become the laughing stock for his pathetic behaviour.By not admitting that he resorted to cheating and other dubious means, he has established further that Australians only managed to win this test by adopting wrong tactics.Not only Ponting but Gilchrist,known for his honesty,also played dishonest cricket.What have they got out of this wrong tactics.It is understandable that they have become very week after the retirement of Glen Macgrath and Shane Warne,but to win a game by taking Umpires in confidence is condemnable.Whether these Umpires connived with the Australians to fix the match should be thoroughly probed.But it is certain that there must be some kind of allurement for the Umpires to behave the way they did.They have made their profession such a laughing stock.How can they become blind and such incompetent needs to be probed.

BCCI is not likely to allow these cheaters get Scot free.As the first step these three Umpires should be shown the door.Yes,the third umpire was also part of the deal or how could he be so blind to not adjudge a clear stumping

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Disgusting,Disgusting,disgusting....

January 6th 2008 07:03

An Australian author has written an article about the caste and creed of Indian Players in an leading Australian Newspaper.Can that be a credible Newspaper which carries an article filled with wrong facts.It is understandable that the author was doing some "off the field"assignment for Cricket Australia.But can't they find some credible soul who knows the ethics of writing.In this age of Internet it is appalling that such a fiction is published in some sham paper.The image of Australia has taken a beating and people from every part of world are horrified by the blatant lie and cheating adopted to win a test match.

Australian Media should either stop search engines to crawl on their web sites or become professional.Acting as the newsletters of Cricket Australia.
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Australians "The Cheater"

January 6th 2008 06:09

Australians have done this again !!!With the help of Umpires they remained undefeated in this test also.But they will be known world over now "the cheaters" of the worst kind.
Last time they even went on to the extent of giving sachin out when he was hit on his Helmet.The moot question is that Can Australians win anything on Cricketing Merit alone.It is almost established now that somehow they manage to distract other teams by doing some stupid things that they consider smart.But they do not realise that they have spoilt the game in the process.What a shame !

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