Breaking News: BCCI hires a CEO
After exhaustive deliberations, the BCCI has come to the sublime conclusion that a CEO for the BCCI is a totally redundant position, like an unwanted third shoe. On hearing this, it is rumoured that several large corporate houses are planning to give marching orders to their fat pay-check earning, black-sedan driving, week-end golfing, self-obsessed management disasters called CEOs. Some job site portals crashed in a mountainous heap this morning as CEOs hurriedly cancelled breakfast meetings, skipped the power yoga, and began posting their exaggerated achievements online. It is....
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C for Chappell, D for Dravid
Not long ago, the Indian cricket team believed that they had scaled dizzying heights, their altitude higher than Petronas Towers. Their quixotic coach Greg Chappell, pronounced daily breaking news, making complex pontifications on the malaise dogging Indian cricket, usually recommending surgery when perhaps a sprain reliever would have been more apposite. But that's another story altogether, isn't it? Yesterday, as Munaf Patel tried a desperate Virender Sehwag scorcher through the covers, and rock-star hair-do Andrew Symonds lunged forward to gleefully scoop up the catch, life had come a full....
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The Lion King roars
I know that Sachin Tendulkar would not have liked it at all. As the country took drum-beats and hit the crowded streets, celebrations taking on their contagious frenzy, and the entire country and beyond heaved a collective sigh of awesome relief at the amazing comeback of the Little Master, everyone had conveniently forgotten that India had on some atrocious regulation called Duckworth-Lewis been technically fouled, and had lost the match against West Indies in the DLF Cup at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the convoluted run-rate calculation. But hey, who cared....
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Was Sourav tricked into a trap by his tennis elbow?
Ever since Sourav Ganguly's leaked e-mail about Jagmohan Dalmiya has found wide circulation thanks to the classical crack in the sewage linings, all hell has broken loose. And the multimillion-dollar question that has naturally emerged out like a sea dragon with Davy Jones tentacles is; why and how has Dada suddenly discovered that his erstwhile mentor, ex-BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya may have actually callously toyed with him like the proverbial pawn in his embittered battle for winning BCCI elections. I think the answer lies in Sourav's "tennis elbow" injury....
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