One way traffic not good for ODIs
Two interesting battles are going on simultaneously, which show the contrast between ODIs and Twenty20. As many as 743 runs in 79.3 overs were scored in the two Twenty20 encounters between the West Indies and England at a run-rate of 9.37 runs per over. It even led to a strange piece of statistics where eight runs per over in the last seven-eight overs would have meant much less, compared to the going at the then run-rate! Something which is increasingly going to be the trend in the coming....
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Jab tak rahega Samose mein aaloo!
It was expected. After all, Laloo is ambitious, hungry for success, and the one who loves the limelight and thrives in it. More than that, the strongman from Bihar has proved his pedigree. Ruled his state for a good fifteen years, tightened up the loosening joints of Indian Railways, mesmerized the people of Pakistan, and is regularly invited for management lectures in India’s and world’s top universities. So what if Laloo has not played cricket? How many in the cricketing establishment can boast of having played....
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Cheeni Kum, Cricket, and Gen Gap
A young woman’s obsession with an old man, Amitabh, in the eminently watchable "Cheeni Kum" has an interesting storyline. The woman’s dad, played by Paresh Rawal who does not know about the affair, unwittingly keeps on reminding Amitabh, 64, about his age. When he complains to his beloved, played by Tabu, she has a hearty laugh, saying, "Aap dono same age ke kahan hain? Aap unse 6 saal badein hain!" (Both of you are not of the same age. You are older by six years!) By strange coincidence,....
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