Stump Vision | R Mohan
This is the story of Alexis Berbou at the municipal Hippodrome in Nouma, the capital of New Caledonia. Berbou is an automobile rallying enthusiast who is immensely popular among the 2,50,000 people of this little island in the southwest Pacific...
0 CommentsCricket lost its tag of the gentlemen's game long ago. No amount of anguish over this is going to restore the pristine image of the once genteel game played on the village green for sheer joy. The IPL, however progressive...
1 CommentsThere is a 'Fairplay' award in the IPL but few remember it because it does not come with a juicy cheque for a couple of million dollars or so. No one remembers who won the trophy on the first four...
4 CommentsIt is not the critics who count. Some of their views on the premier league may be very negative but the fact remains that the IPL is here to stay as a successful business model. It's time to examine the...
0 CommentsIt's a long way to fly to enjoy a Johannesburg thunderstorm. That's exactly what India did in the most curiously scheduled one-off Twenty20 the cricket world has ever known. The modern day Indian cricketing millionaires have as good a reason...
4 CommentsBrave Bangladesh stumbled at the winning post. But had the team, which played so consistently right through the Asia Cup, so much as won the tournament there would have been wicked whispers. While Pakistan has a history of tanking against...
0 CommentsThe biggest turnaround for cricket in recent times was the fact that the Pakistan team began playing to win again and not to lose as per the dictates of shadowy figures from the world of bookmakers and match-fixers. When Pakistan...
1 CommentsSachin Tendulkar's ODI career is on its last legs, if they haven't folded already. Those on the inside track say he was to announce his retirement as soon as India qualified for the tri-series finals, which would then have been...
9 CommentsSachin Tendulkar did not play the ODI in Adelaide. I cannot imagine a sillier decision could have been made on the grounds of satisfying the compulsions of a vague rotation policy that was unknown in Indian cricket until some souls...
8 CommentsThe Board of Control for Cricket in India is in dire need of addressing and reshaping its relationships with its primary stakeholders who bring in so much value. There must be something seriously wrong with the way it has allowed...
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