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Cricinfo Agenda 17 May 2006 | 02:05 am
I like Cricinfo. I really do. They have a good bunch of correspondents. Amit Varma is good, so is Siddhartha Vaidyanathan. Rahul Bhattacharya and Sambit Bal are super. Yet, this latest piece, by Dil...
Battle of Indians in Kenya 24 Jan 2006 | 04:27 pm
Kenya has jettisoned its old cricket body following allegations of mismanagement, and founded a new one. The head of the outgoing Kenya Cricket Association? Samir Ghai. The boss of the incoming one, C...
Sourav plays motivator 24 Jan 2006 | 04:08 pm
From a Mumbai Mirror story, these two vignettes: Inspiration, it seems, can come in any form. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who’s had a disappointing tour of Pakistan so far, joined the Pakistan team o...
UP versus Bengal 24 Jan 2006 | 04:00 pm
That UP would make the final was pretty much a given; Mohammad Kaif, as it turned out, scored 64 to ensure his team nailed the win by a sizeable 5-wicket margin against Mumbai. The more interesting ga...
BCCI no to 20-20 24 Jan 2006 | 03:48 pm
You would have expected the BCCI, especially in its current mood, to have jumped on Twenty20 as an additional revenue stream -- but no. We don't need that, is the Board's view -- so much so, it is now...
Prospects for day 4 24 Jan 2006 | 03:35 pm
Realistically speaking, with 180 overs left in the match and only one and a half innings over, this should be easy -- a draw clearly looms. But if you stretch the mind a bit, you can imagine one winni...
The Dhoni effect 24 Jan 2006 | 03:11 pm
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's maiden career hundred, broken down by region, makes for interesting reading. Sometimes, such weightage on one side of the wicket could argue a predominantly one-sided player -- ...
The curious case of Shoaib Akthar 24 Jan 2006 | 03:04 pm
Osman Samiuddin's story on Cricinfo, incorporating Bob Woolmer's comments, underlined for me the most curious part of play on the evening of day three. Check this comment out: India's collapse post-lu...
Untitled 19 Jan 2006 | 09:04 am
A couple of weeks ago, Virender Sehwag went on record to slam the DDCA and suggest that all was not well with the way the selectors picked the Ranji squads. Now, coach Madan Lal comes up with similar ...
Shifting news 18 Jan 2006 | 06:28 am
For those of you who just arrived here....the news is that SightScreen has moved to the new rediff-based home here Check it out, for latest updates from the SightScreen folks there. Although do bear ...
