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Six and Out - Some Serious Cricket

February 17th, 2008

No Hopes for India

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Australia v India, CB Series, 7th ODI, Adelaide ; February 17, 2008
Australia 9 for 203 (Clarke 79, Pathan 4-41) beat India 153 (Johnson 3-42) by 50 runs

Australia beats India in the 7th CB Series ODI by 50 runs
There’s been a lot of talk recently about Australia losing the confidence and […]

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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
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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 […]

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November 28th, 2007

If you were a selector…

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…would you rope Yuvraj Singh in for the second Test?

On the one hand, I feel that he’s in the form of his life, and we need to tap in on that. But on the other hand, yes, I understand we can’t let go of our long-time trusted Laxman either. Ganguly’s […]

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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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November 17th, 2007

A forgettable series (and 10 reasons we’d have to remember it anyway)

So, India has an unbeatable lead in the Indian Oil Cup. 3-1.
While the media is surely going to go gaga over it, I’ll admit we aren’t faking any joy over or interest in it. That we are actually discussing genetics at school these days should be a clue to how much interested we really are […]

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October 19th, 2007

…but too many jokes can spoil the broth

Prologue: YouTube and I aren’t the best of friends. I have had to delete a post chock full of my latest video findings because it messed up the sidebar. I’ll get down to fix the problem (which probably lies in me).
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In the meanwhile, what do you make of this? Look, I have said this […]

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October 17th, 2007

Jokes can win you matches– even against the Ozzies.

Don’t get me wrong. I am not too happy with how the series has turned out. But as they say, a win is a win is a win is a….
Soon after Karthik hit the winning four, he was questioned by one of the commentators, “It was pretty tight when you walked in. But it looked […]

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September 21st, 2007

Friday Special: Heroes of the Week

This week two players have made it to the Friday Special feature.
Yuvraj Singh
The six straight sixes he hit has sealed his name in the Indian cricket history. And he can also keep the fastest fifty record to himself for a while.

Brett Lee
Wow, Brett “Brute” Lee is back. I think we need to […]

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