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BCCI Blocks Test Matches

August 21, 2011

India’s forthcoming tour of Australia later this year will take place without any test matches, after the Board for Control of Cricket in India (christened as #bleddyBCCI by our friends on Twitter) officially informed whoever willing to listen that they do not believe in the longest and the most pious form of cricket. The news [...]

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The PaddleShopper: The Pakistan Three

February 7, 2011

The ICC said it is “satisfied” with the verdict and punishments handed out to three Pakistan players (Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir) on Saturday on charges of spot-fixing during the Lord’s Test last summer. Well I am not. I think they should be banned for life and put to work on a chain gang.

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Appeals of Aamer and Butt denied

November 1, 2010

Mohammad Asif must be grinning ear to ear right now. About a week ago, he withdrew his appeal against the ICC’s decision to suspend him. Maybe he had a premonition, maybe he was just high (by high I do not directly imply drugs, rather high as in when Saurav Ganguly said “we are so high,” [...]

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Cash found with Butt matches sting cash

September 3, 2010

Unconfirmed reports are just coming in that the cash used by the News of the World journalists during the sting operation on Mr. Majeed was found to be with Salman Butt. NDTV Cricket reports: According to a report in the Daily Mail, Scotland Yard officers would question Butt on Friday over how marked notes were [...]

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A tale of obvious irony

July 11, 2010

Bangladesh beat England for the first time ever. England in cricket are a lot like England in football. The differences being, there was not much ODI Cricket back in 1966, and that there is no slam bang shorter format which the three lions can win in football now. The point being that the English Cricket [...]

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John Howard is brooding in vain

July 4, 2010

This is a post by Paddle, and not Mspr1nt. I wish I could write as well as she does! Cheers… I haven’t been blogging for about a month now, because nothing interesting seemed to be happening. India was busy playing Sri Lanka again, and the rest was pretty much the usual boring stuff. Nothing to [...]

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ICC World T20, Paddle Sweep Style

April 30, 2010

The ICC World T20 starts off in West Indies today. People who were with us since the inception of Paddle Sweep would remember our coverage of IPL 2009. It was breathtaking, ruthless and accurate. We are not planning to be any of that this time. It’s all about being new. Newer that anything you have [...]

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why rankings are bullshit

January 23, 2010

BREAKING NEWS: Sir Richard Hadlee has just said that India deserved to be the number one test side. So, Ian O Brien is not the only New Zealander who reads this blog. Yesterday, Ms Print wrote something about why India is not the absolute number one team in the world. I strongly recommend you read that one [...]

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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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Ganguly to lecture at Oxford

June 28, 2009

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who made his television commentary debut at the T20 World Cup, in a rather boring avatar, has been invited to give a lecture at the University of Oxford in England as part of ICC centenary celebrations. There are a lot of ideas on what he would lecture about? It can’t [...]

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