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Ojha: The Unsung Starr
Hopping Nelson ponders over what Ojha brings to this Indian team...
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Hopping Nelson |
25665 |
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The Thirteen Commandments of Ijaz Butt
David Green looks at the behind the scene runnings of Ijaz Butt's empire
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David Green |
10170 |
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An Open Letter To Mohammad Amir
An open letter to Mohammad Amir in the wake of recent spot fixing controversy...
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Anoop Vijaykumar |
10652 |
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The Prince who lost his crown
Why Yuvraj, his form and his fitness, are key to India's World Cup chances...
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Sharan Pahlajani |
13799 |
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The Drama of the 5th Day of a Test Match
Close encounters of our favourite kind...
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Abhishek Paul |
13111 |
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To Watch or To Switch?
The dilemma of which match to watch....
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Subash Jayaraman |
11531 |
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Angelo Mathews: The next big thing...??
Is Angelo Mathews the future of Sri Lankan Cricket?
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Mayank Jhaveri |
17505 |
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This isn't Afridi's best yet!
And why Afridi's good form should worry Pakistan...
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Jatin Thakkar |
13207 |
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Whatever Happened to the First and Second Men?
A look into the history behind the names of fielding positions...
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Kirby Meehan |
11336 |
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Is Sehwag selfless? Really?
...but to me, he is not the team player he can be.
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Aswin Sambamurthy |
4827 |
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England for the World T20; and no I haven’t gone mad
History and even common sense may be against it...
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David Green |
2605 |
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The context to all ODIs
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Sreeram Ramachandran |
13673 |
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Advantage Lara
A few arguments that put Lara ahead of the Don
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Jonathan Cumberbatch |
1984 |
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Thick as Thieves
An interesting incident in the commentary box
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Mark Smith |
2512 |
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The 'Final Frontier' saga
India Vs Australia,2001: Lax and Bhajji's day
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holdingwilley |
118967 |
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An era ends, with a whimper
On paper, this is India’s most significant test series victory in years. But why does it feel so unsatisfying, so inevitable? So anti-climatic?
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Jaideep Varma |
1424 |
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Team vs Individual
One of the first things you learn as a child playing sport in Australia is that the team is more important than the individual.
Australia did the opposite.
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Jarrod Kimber |
2498 |
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A dull thud
As the third test heads towards the most boring of draws, it is now clear that this test series is not destined to go down amongst the more memorable ones. In fact, this is the most boring India-Australia test series of the last 10 years. The 1999-2000 series in Australia was more one-sided but at least there were results.
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Jaideep Varma |
6976 |
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Surviving in a Modern Society
I love Test cricket. I will follow it any way I can, on the TV, on the radio, in the newspapers or more regularly, on the Internet, looking at the latest score every 10 minutes at work or home. Despite this attraction for the game, I can honestly say I have never in my life once attended all five days of a test match.
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Ravi Singh |
1514 |
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Bring 'em back
For better or worse, Warne will probably not come back to play for Australia, except maybe in a Poker or Golf Championship. But let’s switch into a soothing hypothetical mode: if you could, which cricketers would you like to bring back from the past?
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HW Contributors |
1457 |
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The ones that got away (Part 1)
Watching a recent game on the telly, one of the announcers deferred his spot to Greg Blewett, the former Aussie wunderkind. Greg visited the Caribbean in 1995 and all local observers were struck dumb by his obvious class. Also making his Caribbean debut was one Ricky Ponting who was typically pugnacious but never caught the eye as often as his colleague.
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Jonathan Cumberbatch |
1389 |
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Arkham Asylum broken through
Bob Woolmer once said that he got the most useful perspective on how things are progressing when in the middle of a net session, he stopped, walked away a few metres and surveyed the scene from a distance.
No one does that here in Indian cricket because no one wants to look at something alarming if they can help it. But a quick, brave look at the overall scene in Indian cricket shows that its trademark general randomness that you would see at drunken party continues to prevail. The alarming part is that the madness is spreading to the rest of the world and it is beginning to look like we are in for a horrendously hung-over morning indeed.
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Sreeram Ramachandran |
1340 |
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Is Ponting the best comedian in the world?
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Jarrod Kimber |
882 |
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On spinning tracks
For Australia to win, they must get some wickets out of their spinner.
He does not have to win the series on his own, the quick bowlers are still the main weapons, but Bryce needs to hold his own.
The truth is he is the only person in Australia for the job.
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Jarrod Kimber |
1257 |
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45 |
Australia looking to self-destruct already
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Jarrod Kimber |
1108 |
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Did 'we' win?
By winning. England are winning. They actually played a game of cricket and won it. By winning.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Usually, I have some pretty strong feelings on this issue. But, today, I feel confused.
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J Webb |
1286 |
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Will the Olympics really help Cricket?
In a recent article Ian Chappell argues that cricket shouldn't be included in the Olympics. He deserves credit for saying something different when everyone is jumping on to the (rather cheesy-sounding) 'T20 in 2020' bandwagon, but not for much else. Sure, there are enough reasons to not have cricket in the Olympics – as much as we try and disown them Sreesanth, Arun Lal, Simon Katich, the BCCI are all a part of the game – but Chappell mentions none of them so it is a little difficult to take his arguments seriously.
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Sreeram Ramachandran |
1236 |
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Sticky fingers
What's the problem with Monty? A familiar question in recent conversations between England supporters, so let's stick in our oar...
We'll leave the appalling batting, fielding, running between the wickets and catching for another time - time enough though, to marvel again at how Northants let him get so far without apparently teaching him the rudiments of how to catch a cricket ball.
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Mark Smith |
1378 |
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Minority Report
That's the series effectively over, so here's the 'end of term' reports.
Cook - It may not just be coincidence that the two batsmen who scored first innings 50's and therefore, in their own minds, cemented their places in the Oval line up, were the two who played the most brainless shots second time around.
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Mark Smith |
1162 |
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50 |
Sehwag is back
It wasn’t that long ago that Sehwag was wandering the desert.
Unwanted by his people and most major sponsors.
He was cast aside for men with lusher hair and more athletic physiques.
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Jarrod Kimber |
1344 |
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