Posts Tagged ‘BCCI’
A Mismatch To Be Remembered!
Billed as the contest of the year, this Test series will instead go down as the biggest anti-climax in the history of cricket. There is not a champion side that has taken such a beating as India, just short of leaving them gasping for breath in every match, nay every session. Meanwhile, staking their claim to be the best side in the world never [...]
How did Indian bowling get so poor?
We marvel in the genius of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman. Our fathers swore by Sunil Gavaskar, Gundappa Viswanath, Dilip Vengsarkar and Mohammad Azharuddin. Their fathers thought as much about Vijay Manjrekar and Vijay Hazare. In all these years if the myriad generations of cricket lovers in this country have been united in praise [...]
IPL 4 – New Rules, New Game
Kolkata Knight Riders’ owner Shah Rukh Khan says the new player auction rules for the fourth season of the IPL in 2011, are somewhat unfair, and that all players should go into the pool. You can almost understand his pain. Three years of bragging about his team in front of the whole wide world and he has won squat so far. Now, finally, that he [...]
Three reasons to be happy about India’s T20 World Cup exit
Hardly four days have passed since India’s painful exit from the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean and we have heard all kinds of sinister stories on TV channels and leading newspapers of the country. Unfit players, fitter coaches, unruly skipper, pub brawls, torn t-shirts and quiet flights back home have some how ironically overshadowed that [...]
2010 IPL Diary: Deccan Chargers trumped by Kolkata Knight Riders
As if the IPL wasn’t loud enough over the last two years, what with the likes of Ravi Shastri, Danny Morrison and company bellowing commercials into their microphones, SET MAX kicked off their 2010 coverage with Navjot Singh Sidhu back in the experts saddle, after like an eternity. The other day on Twitter I came across the channel’s [...]
Ravindra Jadeja to miss 2010 IPL – confirmed!
Ravindra Jadeja is all set to miss the third season of the IPL despite pleas made on his behalf to placate the IPL authorities. They didn’t even listen to the appeals from different quarters of the BCCI so that is telling in the sense that there ought to be some ground in upholding the punishment against the offence. This is again a piece of [...]
IPL changes Time-Out rules
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has announced changes in the time-out rules for the upcoming season of the IPL. Instead of the unbearably dull seven and a half minutes per innings, we will have two time-outs per innings of two and a half minutes each. Only this time the batting and the bowling side will have their very own time-outs. The bowling [...]
Problems aplenty for IPL
Less than two weeks remain before the annual cricket carnival that is the IPL begins. In all earnest, hosting the tournament in India this time around is proving to be a bigger hassle than it was to transfer the entire circus to South Africa on short notice. Lalit Modi and company will power through this time as well but if the teething problems [...]
