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‘Warne got 60 victims more because of Bucknor’
The umpires in the Sydney Test match have been scrutinised, criticised, condemned and ridiculed, both for the flawed decisions and for the general conduct of the game, but neither Steve …
PETER ROEBUCK: PONTING MUST BE SACKED
The eminent cricketer turned cricket writer Peter Roebuck in tomorrow’s Melbourne Age: “Ricky Ponting must be sacked as captain of the Australian cricket team. “If Cricket Australia cares a fig …
Prem Panicker: How India should play Perth Test
India’s foremost cricket writer Prem Panicker writes that India should not walk out of the Australia tour at this juncture. “Rather, they should play in Perth under protest. I’m not …
Simian row sparked by slip of the mother tongue?
Did Harbhajan Singh really call Andrew Symonds a “monkey”? Or is this all a horrible communication gap caused, a) by the thick mop of hair around Roy’s ears, b) by …
How would Modi have dealt with cricket crisis?
Much has been made of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi‘s powers and prowess, real and perceived. His drumbeaters talk of his “tough”, “assertive”, “decisive” leadership; his “no-nonsense”, “zero-tolerance” “take no …
7 things Symonds should know about our monkeys
Andrew Symonds‘ charge that Harbhajan Singh called him a “monkey”, resulting in the offspinner being banned for three Tests, shows that a term of endearment in one culture (ours) can …
Bodyline then. Now what? Bawdyline? Laadiline?
Officially, the ongoing Australia-India series is for the Border–Gavaskar Trophy. But with one of the two legends himself making no effort to hide his displeasure at the farce it has …
Never judge an ex-cop by his friend’s BMW car
B.K. Shivaram, the latest police officer to join a long line of police officers in Karnataka politics—Sangliana, P. Kodandaramaiah, L. Revanasiddaiah, D.T. Jaya Kumar, B.C. Patil, Abdul Azeem, among others—sat …