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a bitter sweet feeling

January 5, 2010

Terrence Howard, Peter O’Toole, Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella have something in common. All of them were nominated for the Academy Awards (Oscars) but did not win. That does not undermine their talent, or importance. Something that could certainly undermine it would be if they were not invited for the mega event. Imagine a [...]

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India vs Australia 2nd ODI top tweets

October 28, 2009

Some of you might have noticed that I was tweeting about the game @paddlesweep. This seems to be a totally one sided game on one of the flattest pitches of the world. Here are few tweets which I consider described a major part of India’s innings: now even I hate Ravi Shastri i don’t like [...]

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10 Commandments of the International Cricket Blogger

October 27, 2009

By Guest Blogger Uncle J Rod, the ballsiest blogger in the milky way Thou shalt not use reason, you are not a journalist, you are a blogger, be as unreasonable as you need to be. Respect thy domestic competition, but do not make love to it. Thou shalt always be willing to fall in love [...]

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ICC doles out freebies, Dhoni is not impressed

October 2, 2009

The Indian cricket team is in some sort of a media-created crisis. Everyone worth his penny is coming out and sniggering at MS Dhoni’s comments and his leadership. The same people, of course, never stopped short of showering accolades for him. That is ok, though. Happens in the world where any footage is good for [...]

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The Paddlesweep Reinvention Giveaway

September 29, 2009

In other words, the reason you went beyond the headline to read this. Yes, it has been a long time since I started blogging. A really long time. Some call it six years, I call it a blink of the eye. All in all, a lot of enriching years of hard work. A lot of [...]

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what non-cricketing bullshit

September 9, 2009

i have seen a lot of downs in my life as a cricket blogger. I have had my posts stolen, and the guy who stole them got a higher revenue out of that. I have been pulled up for plagiarism (a false claim, of course). I have had to switch between blog a little too [...]

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The all new lady blogger! Apologies to cricket with balls

October 15, 2008

Welcome to the all new Free Hit. It is great to be all new. The all newness would be kept to this paragraph. The design has changed, and we have a new blogger on our roll. The new blogger will fill the biggest drawback of a cricket blog which this blog suffered from – being [...]

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What vicious blogging does…Cricket Australia reads the free hit

October 4, 2008

  This is about Jason Krejza again. Sometimes I wonder why am I giving him so much footage. But with McGain gone, he IS their best spinner after all. If he is the BEST spinner, universal bagging rights were never cheaper in Australia.   Enough talk about things like the amount of talent he has [...]

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Jason Krejza was a druggie

October 3, 2008

Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Asif and Jesse Ryder have a few things in common. A love for the banned substance is one of them.   Jason Krejza has joined that club. In retrospect of course. He has admitted that he was a drug consumer.   This is what he has to say: I was the victim [...]

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Board President's XI vs Australia – Warm Up or Mind Games?

October 3, 2008

BPXI were about 360 odd at the end of day 1 in this warm up game. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli got centuries.   Jason Krejza went for 100 something in 20 overs. He is supposedly the main spinner in INDIAN conditions. He bowled 25 full tosses. He was completely shithouse.   Mitchell Johnson looked [...]

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