Cricket Bytes | E R Ramachandran
Each year, the IPL brings with it its own unique facets as the tournament unfolds. And this year, where teams like Delhi Daredevils and Royal Challengers Bangalore have a pool of big guns to choose from, it is the teams...
0 CommentsYoung left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem's confidence would have soared sky high when he helped his team Delhi Daredevils skittle Harbhajan Singh's Mumbai Indians for 92, so far the lowest score in IPL 5. The kudos he earned from his team-mates,...
3 CommentsMaking his debut in October 2000, standing at cover-point Yuvraj Singh served notice to batsmen. From then on fielding in the Indian team would take a quantum jump from leisurely accompanying the ball to the fence - as was generally...
0 CommentsThe Bollywood Cricket Confederation of India (BCCI) has signed a contract with the Association of Straws & Sons for a jaw-dropping $100 billion, the breakup being: team sponsor $ 30.22 billion, kit sponsor $19.67 billion and media rights $ 50.11...
5 CommentsKris Srikkanth, the chairman of the BCCI's selection committee, was gracious enough to own up responsibility for India's failure in England and Australia on national television. There is no shame in losing and a candid admission demonstrates a rare candour...
11 Comments"The Asia Cup is vital for the reputation of the country," said Kris Srikkanth, chairman of India's selection committee, to the media when he announced the team the for four-nation tournament earlier this month. It was also the day he...
0 Comments"Play the game in the spirit of the game," exhorted India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru while inaugurating the first Asian Games in Delhi in 1951. Rahul Dravid retired from cricket in a graceful manner without much flourish or...
6 CommentsMS Dhoni's statement in a media conference that "Sehwag, Sachin and Gambhir are slow in the field and that costs 20 runs to the team which has to be made up by batsmen" generated lot of heat and more sound...
0 CommentsWhen Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara hammered centuries in a must-win match for India and set up a seemingly insurmountable asking rate of more than eight runs per over to stay alive in the CB Series, to most of India's...
2 CommentsHave cracks appeared in Team India's wall with internal bickering coming into the open? Already in the dumps due to poor on-field performances, Team India is making news for all the wrong reasons. Forget the World Cup; nobody even remembers...
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