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Deadly Deba

Deba Prasad Dhar

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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Why Younis Khan sulks

Posted Friday , December 07, 2007

There has to be something terribly exacting about leading Pakistan. Younis Khan dreads it, finds the thought "scary." So much so that he feels the most coveted and honorable job in the game will hound him as long as he is playing. You don't need a shrink to get to the root of his dilemma. It is quite apparent he has no faith both in the team as well as the establishment that has not the least regard for the leader and continues to be soft on an irreclaimable....

Posted by Deba Prasad Dhar at 19 : 47 | 10 comments

White Coat blues

Posted Saturday , October 06, 2007

To err is human but if you stumble time and again there has to be a marked deficiency in your judgment. The appalling standards of umpiring in India's domestic cricket got another coat of varnish in the one-day game between India A and South Africa A at Rajkot. India were 98/4 when Albie Morkel slipped in a short one to a fending Manoj Tiwary. The ball crashed his helmet and lobbed in the air before alighting on the keeper. The umpire, after conferencing with his partner at....

Posted by Deba Prasad Dhar at 19 : 56 | 3 comments

Burying Miandad's ghost

Posted Tuesday , September 25, 2007

S Sreesanth gets spanked for 21 in the second over. My colleague turns his back on the LCD screen that we hired for the finals. "Not worth it," he frowns, "in any case I've got an awful lot of work to do. Tomorrow is Anant Chaturdashi (the last day of Ganeshotsav) and the city will be cramped for space. I may have to close up early." It's a different matter that the thought of "Anant Chaturdashi" didn't dawn upon him all throughout India's innings, as he smudged....

Posted by Deba Prasad Dhar at 14 : 51 | 12 comments

Destiny's child

Posted Thursday , September 06, 2007

Six years ago the Natwest Trophy win and the coming of age of Mohammad Kaif sent Indian supporters into flights of frenzy. Swap Robin Uthappa with Kaif and a similar script beckons us. Hush! Sages often warn. At times the mood in India - as Nawab Pataudi would say - could be "one of dangerous self-deception." We Indians create heroes only to pull them down (Read Uthappa 2007, and Kaif post-2002). Let's hope Uthappa enjoys a career that his country will be proud of. Only time will tell. ....

Posted by Deba Prasad Dhar at 20 : 28 | 6 comments

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