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Written by Jonathan
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Thursday, 15 March 2007 |
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Apart from their own fragile group confidence, the Windies went into yesterday’s ICC WC opener with much on their shoulders. The small matter of igniting an entire tournament which has stepped on many regional toes and sensibilities to have its run would be one of them.
And boy did they deliver.
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Written by Jatin Thakkar
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
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Today’s match is a virtual nerve-breaking tie between two evenly matched teams. It may turn out to be a high class drama where
predicting a winner will equal betting on a coin. If you are wondering why your copy of the World Cup schedule doesn't reflect that, let me clarify. We are talking about the clash
of the minnows...
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Written by Jaideep
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
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Yes, the World Cup looks more open this year than it ever
has been. And the primary reason is that Australia is looking fallible. Every
one of the other 7 top teams has it in them to go all the way. But conditions
and form suggest that some have more of a chance than others.
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Written by Jonathan
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Sunday, 11 March 2007 |
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To my count seven stadia have been handed over to the ICC in
full compliance with World Cup requirements (Jamaica, Guyana, Grenada, St.
Lucia, St. Kitts, Antigua and Barbados).
Who’s late? Why, it’s the country whose GDP envelopes all of
the above and, some say, could have actually hosted the entire thing itself. Yes, Trinidad.
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Written by Sanjay Kewlani
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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Just when things start looking predictable, those good old cricket Gods intervene and shake things up. At the end of the Ashes series and after India and Pakistan’s battering in South Africa, it looked like this was going to be one of the most predictable World Cups. Australia looked like they were on course to an unprecedented third World Cup added to their trophy cabinet with some token resistance from South Africa. Of course, any fan of the game knows that it is utterly silly to make these kinds of predictions in cricket because the Gods who guide the destiny of the game are notoriously capricious. The events of the last couple of weeks bear this out unequivocally.
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Written by Jonathan
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Saturday, 17 February 2007 |
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The most remarked aspect of the spirited if unsuccessful recent Windies ODI tour of India was Marlon Samuels silky batsmanship and all-around game efforts. As if out to singularly rebuke all scribes (self included) who had written him off as one more Gen-Y coulda' been, Samuels seemingly invoked the ghosts of his compatriots Rowe and Mattis as he placed the ball around the sub-continent as if the bat were his hands.
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Written by Ravi Singh
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Friday, 12 January 2007 |
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(There is a lot of talk now with several big name cricketers following Gilchrist into pushing Cricket into the 2020 Olympics. But this isn't the first time the idea has been mentioned.
Several months ago, in fact a year and a half back, to be precise, Holdingwilley had put up an article suggesting that cricket bodies of significance make a serious move to get cricket a place in the Olympics.
We republish that article here on HW Classics, a section where we relive articles written in the past
which are timeless. These are the articles which grow on you with each
reading (well, that's what we feel anyway) and therefore, probably
shouldn't be relegated to the back pages of the site.)
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Written by Jaideep
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Saturday, 06 January 2007 |
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South Africa vs India 3rd Test
Three
years ago, when India beat Australia in a 230-odd fourth innings run-chase in
Adelaide, India’s man-of-the-match Rahul Dravid said that, during the run
chase, he was mostly motivated by the desire to not feel that familiar despair
of failure when it came to so-near-yet-so-far unsuccessful attempts to win overseas. It is
sad to see that desire extinguished from the team, with the same man as
captain.
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