Hasn't Chappell destroyed Pathan?
The popular poster-boy of Indian cricket not long ago, was in an unprecedented move, sent packing back home from South Africa , ostensibly to “ regain form” by playing two Ranji Trophy matches commencing shortly in India. Rather peculiar , I thought, as he would have in any case been home to play the final game after the end of the tour. Essentially, the Indian think-tank comprising of captain Rahul Dravid, coach Greg Chappell, and chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar have made such a big hullabaloo, hype and hoopla all about....
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My Indian team for World Cup
I think the Indian selectors will do well to select the team for the World Cup next year at the end of the South Africa tour, which will give the team adequate time to get mentally prepared for the daunting task ahead, plan strategies, get accustomed to the team composition and play to their collective strengths. The forthcoming ODI series against Sri Lanka and the West Indies in India can give the final selected bunch the perfect platform to get into the groove of competitive match mind-set. ....
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Dance like a man
Historic indeed! There is nothing better than returning to your country and seeing the tri-colours flying high, swirling in the breeze. In 3 ¼ days, for the first time on South African soil, India staged an extraordinary win by 123 runs. At Wanderer’s, Johannesburg, India scripted the unthinkable on the now red-letter day of December 18th 2006, comprehensively dumping the over-confident Proteas to a crushing defeat. Much more than the exaggerated focus on the first team to stage this remarkable feat, what is really more creditable is that this stupendous....
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Thank you, Sourav
I write this piece from a broadband connection in a hotel room in downtown Orlando, USA at an unearthly hour , as final tail VRV Singh and former skipper Sourav Ganguly put up an unexpected resistance, battling odds and a repeated onslaught from a fiery South African pace attack and took India to a modest yet reasonably acceptable fighting score of 249. When was the last time we saw India display such inflexible resolution, such a pugnacious determination and survival strength? Frankly, it seemed like old times. And then the....
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