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Archive for the ‘Weekly Debate/Rant’ Category

April 19th, 2008

Why do Bangladesh play cricket?

Now this one is like throwing the cat among the pigeons. Everybody has a view. I am one of everybody. So, I have a view. If you are a Bangladeshi and you are reading this, do not worry mate. I am just surprised. With players of the quality of Mohd. Ashraful and Abdur Razzak doing […]

By Ankit -- 9 comments

February 26th, 2008

Weekly Debate: Time for Sachin Tendulkar To Go?

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With Tendulkar, it’s like the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about.”
-Sanjay Manjrekar on Sachin Tendulkar
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Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly were picked out of the Indian team prior to the CB series. Rahul, of course, had been culled long before that, so his absence wasn’t talked […]

By Dinsa Sachan -- 7 comments

February 9th, 2008

Weekly Debate: Should cricket have off-season?

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The idea of off-season may be completely off to some. A previous post on it got, like, no response (We are thick-skinned. Heh), but however ill-fated it may be, we are determined to shop it around. For us, it’s the Great Romantic Novel (think Gone With the Wind). Someday […]

By Dinsa Sachan -- 6 comments

January 19th, 2008

The Dhoni Debate

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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 […]

By Dinsa Sachan -- 8 comments

January 6th, 2008

Mr. Bucknor needs eye check-up. Fast…

My dad can refer some doctors, if you want.
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By Dinsa Sachan -- 6 comments

January 5th, 2008

Caste Apart: Australian Media’s Soft Journalism

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Journalists are quite fond of finding new angles to old, beaten-to-death topics. These so-called slants come in handy when you’ve few important things to report, or to be very, very concise, your team is slipping off the pedestal.
Andrew Stevenson, Sydney Morning Herald correspondent, alleges, based on his research from secondary […]

By Dinsa Sachan -- 21 comments

December 16th, 2007

Murali in slow motion: Decide for yourself

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Chucking is all over me. So here goes.
While this is not a substitute for 3-D analysis and we’re not biomechanics, 2000 frames/second is slow enough for our eyes to observe bowling actions from varying angles.

I don’t really know if this is 2000 frames/sec, but it’s slow enough.
I am not going […]

By Dinsa Sachan -- 8 comments

November 7th, 2007

Tendulkar says “nah”; the captaincy drama continues

Sachin Tendulkar has refused to captain India’s Test side for reasons that are unknown to mortals as of yet. Most self-claimed cricket experts (my dad included) are of view that Tendulkar simply lacks executive intelligence-the kind that is needed to lead an international team. He’s no match to Ponting, Waugh, and the like, of course.
Let’s […]

By Dinsa Sachan -- 0 comments

November 5th, 2007

Too much cricket these days?

I spent a sleepless month in September. You know why. The T20 World Cup. I finally got my forty winks after the final. Before my eyes could adapt to light, Australia came down and I found myself entrapped again. But it seems a little different with the Indian Oil Cup. I’ll admit that I […]

By Dinsa Sachan -- 4 comments

October 16th, 2007

We are fine with both cricket and baseball. Any probs, Mr. Tharoor?

Prologue:
I was going to review Warney’s autobiography and boy, was I glad to present my recent epiphanies about the leggie, but what the heck, something spoiled my mood. And here you have a rant.
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For starters, Shashi Tharoor is a former under secretary […]

By Dinsa Sachan -- 8 comments

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