This is a featured reader comment. Just loved the way the gentleman has expressed his feelings:
“This is a strong case for legal action against Dr Vijay Mallaya – what were Mr Sharma’s deliverables as CEO? This is a new role and everyone is learning on the job.
Dr VM he is behaving like the typical spoilt middle aged kid. Know him since school “he had to buy friends” (a group of 5/6 guys would hang around him and enjoy the good life that Calcutta’s Park Street had to offer.)
All his fancy parties are still the same – lots of “air …read more

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Need we say we’re an intelligent bunch? Let alone the active participation and general friendliness (and cleanliness, FWIW) on the blog, the depth of knowledge, accuracy of critical analysis, and passion for the game shown by the people here is absolutely astounding.
Lots of things happen– and get said– over a month, and we should all know who said what,
More interesting tidbits on Papua New Guinea:
Biplob Kishore Deb shared:

There is an interesting thing about Papua New Guinea. The U-19 world cup squad of Papua New Guinea includes two brothers- Captain Colin Amini and Charles Amini. Their …read more

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I’ve decided to highlight a reader comment every week. Sometimes, our readers leave really intelligent comments.
Here’s a latest one from Hilal in response to the Murali video. Somehow it ended up in the spam queue, so you didn’t notice it probably.
Thank you for highlighting the video. It was uploaded by me. If you pay close attention to the video you will note that his wrists are what deliver the ball. Along with a massive thrust from his shoulders. Due to his congenital deformity his body has adapted. Hence the supple wrists and abnormal shoulder rotation. …read more

The only correct response was given by Stuart:
I think the commentator was Brian Johnston and I think it occurred during the 1976 England V West Indies series (Oval test in which Holding took 14 wickets). Evidently the BBC got quite a few complaints from listeners about the rude comment “the bowlers Holding the batsman’s Willey”
Well done, Stuart.
And my gut says he didn’t cheat.
Happy weekend, friends.