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Deba Prasad Dhar

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Had ICC legitimised beamers, Deba would have probably opened the bowling for India. Claims that unlike Sir Len Hutton, he has never got out Obstructing the Field. Fortunately for the game, there were no takers for his argument. Finally, he chose the pen to vent his spleen at the establishment, and till to date the BCCI continues to present him scores of opportunities. After spending the better part of his youth in a plastic company and plugging away mindlessly at the computer, he has found his true metier in sports writing.

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Farewell, sleeping giant

Posted Thursday , March 22, 2007 03:33

So much has this World Cup been mired in strife that we could barely prepare ourselves for the swansong of one of the greatest cricketers of this century. We almost forgot that the Pakistan-Zimbabwe game would call time on Inzamam-ul-Haq’s one-day career. For the last time in ODIs we savoured his endearing, sluggish walk to the wicket. His dense, dangling beard with light touches of grey looked divine. And although his eyes appeared bleary there was something in him that betrayed a Sufi-like calm. The mound of miseries around....

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Forget the Ides of March

Posted Saturday , March 17, 2007 13:06

Brutus: A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March. Caesar: He is a dreamer, let us leave him. Pass. Day of the full moon, the fifteenth day of March (or the period around it) called the Ides is held inauspicious for any noble undertaking. Julius Caesar might have been dismissive of the soothsayers forewarning. That does not entail that Rahul Dravid ought to heed it. In any case India start their World Cup campaign on March 17. Come Saturday and the whole of India would be....

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Yards of discomfort

Posted Tuesday , March 13, 2007 02:28

First notes of war cry leavened the air even as curtains closed on the opening ceremony of the World Cup. Mind games, verbal volleys and literary cartwheels have already started spinning headlines. But quite surprisingly, the warm-up matches didn't square with the buoyant mood of the tournament. No sensuous 300-plus totals, no orgy of destruction. Pray, where was the distinctive flavour of one-day cricket? So much talk has been centred on the nature of wickets that we are almost worn to the bone. Much as we....

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