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“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 …read more

Murali’s 709th wicket

Yuvraj six straight sixes

A tribute to Bob Woolmer

Sourav’s comeback

Sreesanth-Roy head-to-head

Eat Cricket, Drink Cricket, Sleep Cricket
There were loads of good performances that we could applaud here, but when it comes to “making waves” these are the five events that I think qualify best.
The Return of Dada: After the World Cup debacle and the youngsters’ winning performance in T20, everyone was talking about culling the three Indian seniors. Ganguly was on the edge of everyone’s sword and we believed, even hoped, that he’d get the pink slip first. But that was just too much for the man who is worth 17000 runs in world cricket. “Don’t provoke the tiger,” he …read more

Day 4 of the final test match between England and Sri Lanka. We’ll be chasing over 300 – and it’s a hard one to call. I don’t see England having a snowball’s chance of getting the runs and winning, but salvaging a draw would require batting for 2 days, which also seems unlikely – when you consider that the English batsmen will be facing The Little Wizard – Muttiah “Murali” Muralitharan.
On a wicket that will be heaven sent for his style of spin bowling, don’t be surprised if he walks away with all 10 second innings wickets.