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Six and Out - Some Serious Cricket

April 28th, 2008

Harbhajan Slaps Sreesanth : An Update

If you don’t have a clue what I am talking about, read this
The IPL jurisdiction committee sat and decided that Harbhajan should get a 11 match ban from IPL and 100% Match Fees fine. Mind you, this is just the punishment from the IPL committee. The BCCI is planning for more stick as […]

By Ankit -- 1 comment

February 4th, 2008

The Real Cricket Begins Now…

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Not much happened in the Commonwealth Bank Series start-up match, but surprisingly, we’ve quite a few things to chirp about it.
Three Moments of the Match (in ascending order):
* Sachin’s dismissal: Hit wicket is a rare form of dismissal, and it was Sachin’s first, so that makes it quite special. The […]

By Dinnie -- 3 comments

January 22nd, 2008

Cricket Lookalike Correct Answer

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We had some fun here amidst the umpiring row. I had a hunch this would be rather controversial so kept mum on it, but now I feel there’s nothing wrong or particularly racist about it, as some had suggested.
That is a lookalike of, hold your breath, Shantakumaran Sreesanth. Now, how […]

By Dinnie -- 1 comment

January 1st, 2008

Reliving the Newsmakers

Murali’s 709th wicket

Yuvraj six straight sixes

A tribute to Bob Woolmer

Sourav’s comeback

Sreesanth-Roy head-to-head
Tags: Bob-Woolmer, muralitharan, newsmakers, sourav-ganguly, sreesanth, yuvraj-singhShare This

By Dinnie -- 6 comments

January 1st, 2008

Cricket News Makers 2007

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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 […]

By Dinnie -- 0 comments

November 20th, 2007

Why care about the Indian Oil Cup? (and some secret stuff…)

Pakistan skipper Malik feels that their win in the 5th ODI has “balanced” both the teams and raised his team’s confidence big time. We’ll know soon that he’s highly mistaken.
India called in the reserve bench on ocassion of the last trivial
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By Dinnie -- 14 comments

October 28th, 2007

I give a damn - Sreesanth

Latest mouthing from Sreesanth:
I don’t care who the hell is batting against me. The only thing that matters is to run at him, bowl as fast as I can and to try and get him out.
I don’t care whether it is (Andrew) Symonds, (Matthew) Hayden or (Adam) Gilchirst or anybody else, I do not respect […]

By Dinnie -- 6 comments

October 11th, 2007

Sreesanth: The Way Out?

Following some of Sreesanth’s antics in the first two one-dayers, Warney was quoted as saying:
I don’t think anything was over the top, so I think it’s going to add a bit of spice to the summer.
and
Everyone’s going to be looking for Sreesanth to do his stuff and it shows with a bit of passion. […]

By Dinnie -- 4 comments

October 4th, 2007

Heroes (read: losers) of the Week

This space is meant for honoring the players who do well and bring good to the sport, but I am in no mood for honoring today, that’s fer sure.
Hero Turned Loser # 1 Andrew Symonds aka Roy:
The guy with the brown (or is it golden, or golden+brown, you better judge) streaks is one of the […]

By Dinnie -- 6 comments

August 5th, 2007

85mph at your head = funny?

Mike Atherton has a piece today about how Sreesanth should be issued a ban for bowling a beamer at KP in the 2nd Test. His feeling is that the beamer was intentional.
Watch the video, and decide for yourself:

What do you think? I still believe, as I concluded at the time, that it genuinely slipped out. […]

By SixandOut -- 0 comments

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