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The PaddleShopper: The real reason India don’t want the UDRS

December 1, 2010

Many have speculated about the reasons the UDRS is not being used in the up-coming SA – India Test series. Some say it’s not in the ‘spirit of the game’, or that it undermines the authority of the on-field umpires. I think it’s because India’s RockStar Captain, Mahendra “Schwing” Dhoni, just doesn’t get it.

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What I learnt from the Group Stages

May 6, 2010

This has been a very short tournament. Still, half of it remains and we have learnt a lot from it about this format, the competitiveness of teams, and the likes. Here is what I have learnt so far: Minnows remain minnows, for once. Afghanistan were full of hope and enthusiasm, but then what would happen [...]

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Who let the mongoose out?

March 15, 2010

Matty Hayden seems to be one disturbed guy after today’s game. As disturbed as a guy is after he as committed to a girl he doesn’t love but is in it only for perennial pleasures. Everything was going great till the point the dreaded phone call came. Haydos was chilling with his mates down under [...]

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India vs South Africa 2nd ODI Preview

February 24, 2010
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The two teams face off again. On another belter at Gwalior. I reckon I need to find the origins of the word belter as soon as I churn out this post. Both teams have already arrived, and the game begins in about 200 minutes from now. Gwalior has been a great hunting ground for the [...]

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ms dhoni puts his boxing gloves on

January 5, 2010

talk about unconventional ways of training for a game, Indian skipper MS Dhoni takes it to another level when it comes to glovemanship. He actually trains as a boxer whenever he gets time. He does the same with his physical trainer Ramji Srinivasan. Now that I have given Srinivasan enough of a free plug, so [...]

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and here we go again

January 5, 2010

Sri Lanka vs India at Dhaka Tri Nation Tournament (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) 5th January 2010 the average indian fan is asking a question for quite some time now. i will come back to the question in a while. Right now, let’s talk about my roommate. Let’s call him Amar, for fuck’s sake. Let me [...]

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at Rajkot

December 15, 2009

Kumar Sangakkara can sometimes be a total nutjob. Before the tour began, he claimed that his team had the balls to beat India in India. He lost the test series 0-2, because he let the Indian batting get away. The biggest threat to any opposition against India is India’s Batting prowess. Sehwag. Sachin. Gambhir Yuvraj [...]

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Amends to make, I have

December 14, 2009

This is the preview for INDIA for the 5 Game ODI Series India’s fielding in the T20s was not fishy, as MSD described. It was shithouse, to say the least. The word ‘fishy’ might be used to describe things out of place, but not here. The Indian approach to fielding was skewed far more towards [...]

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Kanpur Tried and Tested. Again.

November 24, 2009

The second test between India and Sri Lanka kicks off today. As I type this, Sehwag has already hit three consecutive fours off Muralidharan. He is batting on 115 off 110, and Gambhir is on 89 off 120 odd. What more can I say. Apart from this. Do not go there. This is what I [...]

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Dhoni injured, Karthik flown in

November 23, 2009

Dinesh Karthik has been put on a plane to Kanpur from wherever he was earlier today. The reason – MS Dhoni seems to be injured. Just hold on till I Google what injury we are talking about here. Yeah, thanks for staying. Apparently, its  pinkie injury. I say that for lack of knowledge about which [...]

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