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Posted on 11 July 2019 by churumuri
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Eight reasons why Indian cricket looks like Indian politics today: a loud, mindless cauldron of ‘desh bhakti’, unaccountable, Pakistan-obsessed, and a darling of shady corporates


In the late 1980s, the then Editor of The Times of India, Girilal Jain, wrote that in India, politics sets the pace and everything else follows in its wake. In …

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Posted on 13 January 2019 by churumuri
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A 10-minute Australian TV show that gives you a fine understanding of how good Indian domestic cricket is


Nothing succeeds like success in cricket, and India’s series 2-1 win in Australia has led to the kind of soul-searching down under that once used to be the norm for …

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Posted on 30 August 2018 by churumuri
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If 95% of homes in South India have TV, why are 60 per cent of ads on Sony Six in Hindi?


Nearly every home in South India has TV, if you believe the broadcast industry’s measurement body, which necessarily has a vested interest in pumping up numbers like these. In the …

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Posted on 24 July 2018 by churumuri
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Who will win an IPL-style cricket leagues for the men of god? Maybe the fortune tellers at ACL already know.


Indian Premier League is one hot, promiscuous bitch. First, she spawned state leagues: KPL, TNPL in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu et al…. Then she gave birth to a Celebrity Cricket League …

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Posted on 27 May 2018 by churumuri
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What’s common to Vineet Jain’s defence on Cobrapost sting on media, and Robin Morris’s defence on Al Jazeera’s sting on match-fixers?


Caught on tape offering to push Hindutva for Rs 500 crore, The Times group’s Vineet Jain says, au contraire, his company was doing a “reverse sting” on Cobrapost. Caught on …

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Posted on 9 January 2018 by churumuri
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Who said, ‘Iski phati padi hai, Jassi, wahi jagah be ball daal’, when the score was 82/4?


More often than not, the stump mike provides greater insight of the tension in an ongoing cricket match, especially when the oratorical genius of Sunil Gavaskar and Sanjay Manjrekar, and heaven forbid, …

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Posted on 5 November 2017 by churumuri
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An All-Time Mysore XI in which Javagal Srinath shockingly doesn’t find a place


Compiling an “All-Time XI” list is every schoolboy’s post-lunch fantasy, and Lord’s Cricket Ground—the maternity ward of an Indian game mistakenly mid-wifed by the English—has been compiling them as if …

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Posted on 4 April 2017 by churumuri
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“Wolf in sheep’s clothing,” the Proteas saw Javagal Srinath as a “proper” fast bowler


Tom Eaton, in this month’s Cricket Monthly, has some fine words on the man who used to be the world’s fastest vegetarian bowler, the “handsome” Javagal Srinath: “The guy was almost a …

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Posted on 15 January 2014 by churumuri
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How do you say seun van ‘n teef in Kannada?


In a commemorative volume brought out by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in his honour, batting legend, member of Parliament and Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar recounts this anecdote involving …

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Posted on 20 November 2013 by churumuri
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A ‘teesra’ from a legspinner is still a legbreak


Former India and Karnataka cricket captain, Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, delivering the Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi lecture in Bombay: “In 1990, as a teenager, I took my first steps in international …

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Posted on 16 November 2013 by churumuri
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World’s best batsman ever? No, the 29th best!


As the mammon-worshipping mavens of the cricket board turn a team sport into an individual one in Bombay, as a cash-strapped media engages in a cloying overkill of its original …

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Posted on 12 October 2013 by churumuri
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Gavaskar vs Vishwanath = Tendulkar vs Dravid?


Although they were part of the same Indian team—sharing the dressing room, sharing partnerships, sharing victories, defeats and draws—cricket fans detected a faint undercurrent of competition and conflict between Sunil …

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Posted on 10 October 2013 by churumuri
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POLL: What does Sachin Tendulkar’s future lie?


Many of us, lesser mortals, cannot keep our feet on the ground and our heads on our shoulders after we “succeed”. A good job, a nice designation, a few accolades …

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Posted on 15 September 2013 by churumuri
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Deve Gowda backs Sreesanth, taunts BCCI again


Former Rajasthan Royals opening bowler S. Sreesanth has just been banned from cricket for life, for putting his hand-towel out of his pant pocket, as a signal to bookies that …

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Posted on 17 August 2013 by churumuri
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Can an all-time Karnataka XI beat Dhoni’s men?


As the Karnataka state cricket association (KSCA) celebrates its platinum jubilee, the cricket writer Suresh Menon compiles an all-time Karnataka XI, with a telling line “Humility need not be an …

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Posted on 5 June 2013 by churumuri
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IPL fixing system runs on Mac, Linux or Vindoos?


The IPL spotfixing meets betting saga, starring Thiru Shantakumaran Sreesanthan Nair, Gurunath Meiyappan and Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, as seen through the eyes of Sri S.R. Ramakrishna and Sri Satish Acharya of …

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Posted on 4 June 2013 by churumuri
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IPL scorecard: Morality c Avarice b Greed


SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: In the labyrinths of hell, inside its boiling cauldrons, through its unfathomable maze of blood-curdling monstrosities, of the macabre, the cadaverous and the ghoulish,  in the sepulchral …

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Posted on 25 May 2013 by churumuri
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Government is corrupt, what about corporates?


T.N. Ninan, editorial director of Business Standard, in his weekly ruminations, against the backdrop of the IPL and Ranbaxy scandals: “Pillorying the government of the day for pervasive corruption is …

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Posted on 17 May 2013 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Will you ever trust IPL again?


To the surprise of all but those who have just arrived from Mars, the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been marred by the spotfixing scam involving …

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Posted on 22 April 2013 by churumuri
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When Bedi bowled from Maharaja’s College end


VIKRAM MUTHANNA writes from Mysore: Recently, I was invited to be part of a group that is trying to raise funds for Pratham Mysore, the highly respected NGO that has …

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Posted on 16 April 2013 by churumuri
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In Coorg, ‘jumping japak’ when there’s a goooal!


E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: At a time when Hockey India (HI) and the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) are at each other’s throats and dragging Indian hockey down the drain by filing …

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Posted on 5 April 2013 by churumuri
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Sirf dekhneka, or IPL will sue the hell out of you!


E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Most people think the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is a body that controls cricket in India. This is only partly true though. Cricket …

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Posted on 25 March 2013 by churumuri
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BCCI hands Dhoni cricket trophy without Kashmir!


The Border-Gavaskar trophy was proudly handed over to Mahendra Singh Dhoni last evening by the “two legends” of Australian and Indian cricket, Alan Border and Sunil Gavaskar, after India’s stunning …

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Posted on 18 March 2013 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Can Dhoni & Co beat SA?


The smiles are back on the faces of Indian cricketers, if not cricket fans. After a 0-4 drubbing against England in England and a 0-4 defeat at the hands of …

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Posted on 26 November 2012 by churumuri
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POLL: Should Sachin Tendulkar retire now?


India’s defeat at the hands of England in the second Test match in Bombay has turned the spotlight not on the spinners who were supposed to take revenge on the …

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