How to poach a coach: BCC Ishtyle!
I have always believed that BCCI is so thick-skinned that an African rhinoceros will blush scarlet in it's presence. But one can underestimate it's impenetrable texture at one's own risk. Just as we were happily celebrating India's convincing defeat of Pakistan in the first Test at Feroze Shah Kotla, comes the sudden news that in a surreptitious midnight operation, former South African opener Gary Kirsten has almost secured that elusive post of India's national cricket coach. Considering Mr Kirsten was deftly smuggled in with planned subterfuge by the BCCI....
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Ponytail, Padukone And The Professor
Reportedly, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's celebrated ponytail snaked furtively, in creepy locomotion on the clean shaven cheeks of Professor Ratnakar Shetty, BCCI CEO, CAO , COO or whatever. The black tied-up hairy bundle crept gingerly but with menacing intent, splitting suddenly half-way like a giant anaconda letting out a sonorous yawn, revealing a pair of diabolical fangs which headed straight for the shocked, bulging eyeballs of the congenial Professor. Shetty woke up in a cold sweat, his heart palpitating at such rapid rate it would have given Madhuri Dixit's....
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That Tall Man From Bangalore
566 Test wickets, 334 ODI scalps, an incredible historic century at the Oval at 36 years of age, 10 wickets in an innings against Pakistan , innumerable victory spells leading to 15 Man of Match awards. If ever Indian cricket had a true-blue unsung hero, it is actually Anil Kumble. 17 years after the Bangalore-based engineering student made his debut for India, literally in the November of his career now, the understated, unassuming and uniformly low-profile "silent assassin" has at last got his fair dues. Interestingly, he makes his....
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Om Sachin Om
The hullabaloo created yesterday by star Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar's decision to quietly refuse the tricky if not altogether treacherous assignment of being Indian skipper for Test matches was fairly understandable, given our natural propensity to react to everything from MS Dhoni's chopped curls to Rahul Dravid attentively reading a book on a long flight to Dilip "Colonel" Vengsarkar's inborn trait of somersaulting with effortless ease into new controversies every time he opens his famous trap-door. Yesterday, if there had been a military coup in India or if Mayawati had....
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