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By newsglobally at 02/26/2010 - 06:31
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Sachin, Harbhajan and Zaheer join Nita Ambani in reaching education to underprivileged and disadvantaged kids
Sometimes you can score in cricket without picking a bat and walking onto the crease; before you spin the ball and send a thunderbolt streaking down the wicket; and, even while the covers are still on the grass and the teams are dressing up. All it takes is a cause, your belief in it, and the willingness to give of yourself to further that cause. That’s what Nita Ambani has started doing this week, scoring for her IPL team the Mumbai Indians, even though the third season of the popular Twenty20 tournament is still a cool 17 days away. And this Nita’s doing not for Messrs.
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By thevortex at 01/24/2010 - 13:36
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He who laughs last..laughs the loudest
February 12th 2008 09:36
[This is a detailed account of that Johannesburg record breaking match between Australia and SA where SA overhauled Australia's 434 run total]
Mike Hussey was all smiles at the lunch break. The team was jubilant and the dressing room resounded with laughter. They had massacred the Springboks, actually beat the living daylights out of their bowlers - 434 for 4 in 50 overs. Lets see them come on to the field now. Time for some more fun. Ponting had an especially toothy smile on his face. He had earned it after his stunning 164 off 105 balls.
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By thevortex at 01/24/2010 - 13:33
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[A fictionalized account of India's famous victory at Perth against the Aussies from the perspective of some wildlife]
Lion bearded in its own Perth!
January 26th 2008 06:31
There was rustling in the tall savannah grass - not that the well built antelope grazing intently noticed it. And the rustling was not just at one point either. Streaks of mane, rippling tawny muscles and twitching black tufted tails were to be seen all around the antelope. The lions were a well knit team. The season was going well for them as had the previous ones too.
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By thevortex at 01/21/2010 - 14:42
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[Written when Sachin Tendulkar completed two decades of playing and enriching international cricket]
It is that time again, when one scours the mind to get a hold of those elusive adjectives. Well, the adjectives themselves are not elusive. They rather suggest themselves. But the problem is to try and not repeat oneself. To try hard to find new ways to describe the same old genius of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar - and miserably fail. Twenty years of driving headlines and inspiring prose. Making romantic writers out of hard-as-nails former cricketers and jaded cricket correspondents. Twenty years of pleasing almost every cricket fan in every country.
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By flamy at 12/02/2009 - 03:19
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Yesterday was one of the most sacred trips I’ve ever been on with Mary Jane.
I regressed into childhood. I was there. I was one with that child. It was as if I had traveled back in time. I wasn’t just privy to the thoughts of that child, it was more full-on than that. I was the child. I could feel what he was feeling, hear no, think his thoughts and see the myriad images that we all see in our heads when we are a new and young life on this earth.
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By The Outsider at 11/22/2009 - 03:53
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There is a concept in Cosmology used to measure distances to far, really far away objects like other galaxies. It goes by the name of the Cosmic distance ladder. There is constant debate in cricket, in fact all sports, about comparing modern day greats and achievements to the ones from the years gone by. It's a tough one in the absence of good video footage and possibly affected writings. I'll attempt to bring about an argument in this blog to look at the debate from a different perspective.
Measuring distances is a crucial aspect of Cosmology - for one of the basic questions that Cosmology aims to answer is how big is the universe? There is only a certain extent that regular physical measurements will help out.
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By The Outsider at 11/10/2009 - 18:07
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Sitting on the porch and smoking a cigarette as I watch boats drift by on the Hudson, the mind if sometime captured by old memories. Not that those memories have anything to do with the Hudson or a cigarette, but you know how the mind some time wanders aimlessly.....or do you......maybe it's just my mind. The trail would start from the ash falling on my hand in the breeze as I impetuously shake it, make itself through an incongruous chain, if there is such a thing, and end up in Lucknow.
I would be shadow batting on the roof of our ancestral home in temperatures rising upwards of 40 Celsius after having fooled Amma that I was taking my afternoon nap. There was still homework to do, but that was never too much of a problem. A couple of hours in the evening was usually good enough.
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By karteekmvs at 05/08/2009 - 00:04
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Each team has played almost 7 games apiece and sme have played more tha that. But taking the seven games each player has played into consideration, I made the following teams and boy, the Indian team looks world-beaters for sure, and that is without Veeru and Gauti and the top.
As far as the World Xi is concerned, lots of surprises. Where are the likes of Steyn, Albie, Smith, Warnie, Pietersen, Jayasuriya, Oram, Gayle etc. Almost half of the team members would surprise themselves. But hey, it is the name and not the form that counts.
India XI
Sachin
Irfan
Raina
Yuvraj
Dhoni
Rohit
Yusuf
Praveen
Ojha
RP
Ishant
World XI
Hayden
Gilchrist
Gibbs
Dilshan
DeVilliers
Hodge
Dwayne Smith
Bravo
Abdullah
Murali
Malinga
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By karteekmvs at 05/03/2009 - 12:04
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Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers
DAy night
Wanderers, Johanseburg
The first game here yesterday has beaten the predictions. Everyone predicted that the at least on this ground, the bat wins over the ball and Gauti at the toss also did a sensible thing by chasing. He was quite happy at the halfway stage but they just threw away the game when it really matterred.
Toss: If Mumbai wins the toss I think they should bat first as they lost both their games chasing. Bangalore would also want to bat first as they would be aware of that fact and they themseleve lost 2 games chasing.
Form:
Mumbai Indians: WLWLDW
They have 5 completed matches so far and they have been winning every alternate game. So they should be keen to set that straight.
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By neeran at 02/16/2009 - 04:21
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Cross-posting here from my blog (Cricket Stalker):
India embarks upon a rare tour of New Zealand this month, and the team has just been announced. In the old days, whenever India toured Australia, they would also tour New Zealand. Of course travel was much tougher, so if you'd already travelled all the way to Australia, might as well hop over to New Zealand and play a few games there. These days, the cricket calendar is so crazy, and driven by marketability, that we don't travel often enough to that lovely country.
Truth be told, New Zealand might be seen as the final frontier for this Indian team.
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