“This is just so crazy,” my mom said, reacting to the IPL auction news on television today. She doesn’t understand cricket much, much less care for it, and on another day I would treat her snarky comments on cricket just as I treat a college lecture on, say, “degradation of natural resources and the environmental problems”.

But on this rare occasion, my thoughts do tally with her’s.

Dhoni sold for US $1.5 million to Chennai.

What is Mahendra Singh Dhoni; some sort of financial corporation that is now being bought by a bigger organization to form an alliance, huh?

Muralitharan has been “bought” by the same Chennai franchise for US $650,000. That’s far less than the amount paid for Dhoni. One would expect Murali to get top rates, at least more than, uh, Dhoni, going by their records. Oh well.

I’ll go and get the whole scoop now and post something by midnight. They have surely caught my attention this time!

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In India, only two things sell: Dhoni and…

We’ve called him cool, and we truly believed it. But that coolness has failed to show itself in Test  cricket. Everybody pardoned Dhoni’s less than stellar performance against Pakistan. Too early, we echoed. But nothing has changed in Australia so far. Just 105 runs in 6 innings. Sehwag came into his own. Pathan bounced back (Interesting, he always gets Man of the Match on bouncing back), but Dhoni has kept everyone waiting. Karthik for Adelaide, anyone?

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The Dhoni Debate

Now, this is just so funny!

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Well, I never…Dhoni can dance!