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V Veera Kumar

Deputy Editor

A keen student of the game V Veera Kumar represented Maharaja’s College, Mysore, in cricket. But he found his calling in writing, rather than playing, cricket. He has covered all major cricket tournaments, including Reliance World Cup. Some of the cricketing greats he has interviewed include Ajit Wadekar, Nari Contractor, Sandeep Patil, G R Vishwanath, Vivian Richards, Sunil Gavaskar, Wasim Akram, Glenn McGrath and Sachin Tendulkar.

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Tougher tests still to come

Posted Monday , May 28, 2007 15:10

Job well done by the Indian cricket team in Bangladesh but tougher tests lie ahead when they take on opponents like South Africa, England and Australia later this year. The Indians proved that the first round World Cup loss to Bangladesh or shall we say Bangladesh’s first round win in the World Cup against India and South Africa later was a double fluke and the Test minnows have to go a long way before even matching their strong Asian neighbors – India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka – in the....

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Is it the end of road for Sehwag?

Posted Tuesday , May 15, 2007 14:38

Is it the end of the road for Delhi’s dashing batsman Virender Sehwag, who was banking on the third and final One-Dayer against Bangladesh to strike form, only to watch in frustration as the match was abandoned due to bad weather. After failing to make a mark in the first two One-Day Internationals, which thankfully Indians managed win, the Najafgarh butcher, known for his big-hitting seems to have lost an golden opportunity to find his lost touch against one of the weaker sides in world cricket. Despite a....

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Stumpers stamp their class

Posted Thursday , May 10, 2007 18:32

Indian stumpers – Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Dinesh Karthik – stamped their class with unbeaten half centuries as India avenged their World Cup loss against Bangladesh with a five-wicket win at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka today. Not many would have given India even a semblance of a chance when Karthik walked in to join a struggling (with severe cramps) Dhoni in the middle after the fall of Dinesh Mongia’s wicket at 144 for five off 28.1 overs specially after their batsmen’s continued failure in the recent....

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BCCI in a Catch-22 situation

Posted Monday , May 07, 2007 13:16

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) seems to find themselves in a Catch-22 situation regarding the Players’ Contract. Probably if they had restored to a “wait and watch” tactics till the upcoming Bangladesh tour was over, they could have found a way out from their present predicament , where the players have refused to sign the contract after the Board insisted that the players have to sign the contract before their departure to Dhaka and then declared that they (players) can sign the contract after the....

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