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When i started the journey from mumbai along with my cameraman I was told specifically to go to Rajkot first (Baroda was my other destination) because Sourav Ganguly would be making his comeback after his controversial tour of Zimbabwe. Everything for him went wrong in that tour and in a way no one in media supported him because everyone needed someone to criticize and Ganguly was that man for

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A wrong'un in every sense of the word. In a text message to an unnamed lady friend, Shane Warne wrote, from his home in London: "Hey beautiful, I'm just talking to my kids, the back door's open." Unfortunately, and unwittingly, the romantic teaser winged its way nearly 11,000 miles to Warne's ex-wife, Simone, in Melbourne instead. Even for Warne, this was a clanger of deliciously cringing

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The next time you hear of a player retiring hurt with a hairline fracture of his pinky, point him in the direction of David Morrison, a league wicketkeeper in England who has broken each and every finger and thumb. The end result does not make for an attractive picture, and his crooked digits certainly rule out a future career as a glove salesman, but let us admire the man's blind courage and

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Times of India in its 20th September edition printed a full page interview of Rahul Dravid. The interviewed covered many aspects of his personality. On how aggression for him is not what he thinks of other sportsperson's mother, wife and sister. How he has dealt with certain difficulties in life. But the last 5 questions in that interview (out of 23) were all about Rahul's loyalties with Reebok

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In his Ramon Magsaysay Award acceptance speech in Manila on August 31,P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, spoke of the legacy bequeathed to Indian journalism by freedom fighters who doubled up as journalists, and said he was accepting the award on behalf of the same tradition of giving voice to the voiceless. Mr. Sainath won the award in the Journalism, Literature and

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Generations of grandkids will know of the greatest one-day match of all, and of the man who scripted it. It's the stuff of folklore; the bizarre last over, with the two boundaries hammered by Lance Klusener, the inexplicable mix-up with Allan Donald, the scores tied. But without a doubt, every soul who was at Birmingham that lovely day will say it was a pudgy blonde's day.Five months after a

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Going mild … Stuart Clark's not your average fast bowler. Photo: Dallas KilponenFAST bowlers usually conform to a type. Cranky. Skittish. Nutty. Fast bowlers scowl and swear and mutter and sulk. Only one Test player in history has been hanged. He was a fast bowler. "No doubt

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Shane warne on his debut against India.Ian Healy congratulates Warne on his 100th Test wicket against South Africa in November 1994Warne looks to the heavens after clean bowling Jacques Kallis to take his 300th Test wicket ... Australia v South Africa, Sydney, January 1998Warne leaves the field after breaking the Australian Test wicket-taking record held by Dennis Lillee on the final day of the

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It's been an interesting few days since the Perth Test match, trying to work out what the Ashes urn actually means. Since 2005 it's been an amazing thought process for a lot of us to think about what actually happened to try and get the urn and those Ashes back. For me it was a mission to try and get that urn back and today I sit here a very happy man at getting that urn back and I'm going to

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A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when it has been sourced and selected as exquisitely as those in Boria Majumdar's superb 256-page magnum opus, The Illustrated History of Indian Cricket. This is an extraordinary work of scholarship masquerading as a coffee-table flick-book. A sticky-dog century condensed to a ten-over slog, yet somehow retaining the virtues of each. A Rhodes

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Len Hutton, England's first professional captain, and his two Yorkshire team mate caused havoc in between the showers, recalls Christopher SandfordThere are a small number of cricketing snapshots which, apart from questions of nostalgia or period detail, have a lasting place amongst the icons of the game. England's Test series against India in 1952 may not have been the greatest, but it did

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About a months back there was a huge cry in India and also from some remote corner of the world about a new cafe that was opened in Mumbai with a neme called Hitler. The owners or Hitler Cross were forced to shut down their cafe after a huge controversy was created once BBC and Reuters showed a story on this eating joint.Somehow the entire media followed this story for about a week and once

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It was a beautiful warm sunny afternoon in January 2004. It was my first and only political rally that I've ever attended so far. The students rally was organised by NSUI at Parliament street to protest against the education policy of the then NDA government. It was in a way also a process where by which the Congress was trying to gather students support in the upcoming Loksabha elections.The

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Fittingly, the Martina Navratilova era ended with a Grand Slam win.Playing in the very last match of her illustrious tennis career, Navratilova added to her long list of achievements Saturday in the US Open Mixed Doubles championship at Arthur Ashe Stadium.She and partner Bob Bryan captured the title by defeating Kveta Peschke and Martin Damm of the Czech Republic in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3.

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This year's US open was bid as the farewell open for Andre Agassi, however there was one more player who was playing her last tounament of her carrer. To her accomplishments were not more that 383 titles including 58 grand slam titles. Martina Navratriloa started her carrer way back 32 years ago when most of the players who are playing this season were not even born. even aggasi was only 3 years

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Only when Kevin Pietersen raised his arms to cheer his sublime hundred did he show his one sign of fallibility during the entire innings: he dropped his bat. Now, really, if he's going to live up to England's Mr Cool tag that he so often gives himself, he's going to have to learn to celebrate with more flair than that. Luckily, he'll have many more opportunities.Pietersen's 142 followed up his

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'India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters.'This is a pledge that most of us must have taken at some point or the other during our school days. All young minds are trained to treat all our fellow Indians as equals in every respect right from childhood.Unfortunately the reality is quite the opposite. As soon as we finish our schooling and take the first step towards higher

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How do you score runs? By not getting out.It seems an obvious answer to a question that would probably prompt responses ranging from natural ability and mental application to the nature of the pitch and the quality of the bowling.But in an era where every aspect of cricket is analysed to a microscopic degree, it took two of the legends of an earlier period in West Indies cricket to remind us how

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Odd Men In - a title shamelessly borrowed from AA Thomson's fantastic book - concerns cricketers who have caught my attention over the years in different ways - personally, historically, technically, stylistically - and about whom I have never previously found a pretext to writeAnyone who grew into their cricket in the 1970s will remember how crisply the world then divided. From Australia came

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With he summer in India getting to its peak somehow the entire reservation controversy is dying down. the government is also trying to come up with other alternative to save its face by introducing more seats in the premier institutes or by announcing 5-10% quota for the backward section of the upper caste.By this the government is just trying to wash its hands from the entire situation. for the

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Viv Richards blazed to the Fastest hundered in test cricket, ripping a century of 56 balls against England. John Embury, one of the bowlers who suffered the onslaught, recalls the dayEngland had been outplayed in the series. We came to St John's after losing the first Test in three days, the second in five, the third in four and the fourth in three. David Gower sent West Indies in to bat and

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There was something rather ironic about David Gower and John Morris sharing the same birthday - April Fool's Day. For it was during the 1990-91 Ashes tour that the pair of them decided to have what Gower described as "a little bit of fun", which almost ended in them being sent back home in disgrace.England were not enjoying the best of series, two-down after three Tests, although Gower was in

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The latest Brian Lara record was achieved by overtaking Allan Border's tally of 11,174 Test runs, but it is not to Border one must turn to measure the epic stature of the feat. Passing Border's record was all but inevitable from the time Lara appeared in cricket's saga with the classic 277 at Sydney. This was going to be an epic journey of the proportions of an odyssey. As his footprints mark a

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Former England captain David Gower farewells his old sparring-partner Ian Botham. This article appeared at the time of Botham's retirement in the summer of 1993The night of Saturday July 18, 1981 was one of the great pre-rest-day parties. Modern economics and the desire to offer Test cricket to the paying public on a Sunday mean that such opportunities to unwind in the middle of a Test are a

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Ok the story goes like this.....Hector my boss in Times Now was interviewing Mohammad Kaif when he was just emerging from the ranks of U-19 as a good cricketing brain and very good feilder at point region. So Hector asked him that you are feilding in this position is it delberate or it just comes naturally to you.His reply was( and in those days he wasn't good with english)No I always feild at

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In the 1992 Benson and Hedges series a young kid around nine years old came towards Sachin tendulkar to ask for his autograph on his batting gloves. Tendulkar himself being just 18 year old obliged the young boy with his Autograph. 12 years later the same kid played against Tendulkar in the TVS Triangular series in India. and in their very first encounter specially asked the captain to give the

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Steve Jobs I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College

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Anchor:Sachin Tendulkar is set to return to the international fold with the one-day series against Sri Lanka but there is a tag of caution too. TIMES NOW has learnt that inclusion of Test opener Gautam Gambhir is a done as a backup for Tendulkar who is coming back from a tennis elbow injury.STD/EDVI:Gautam Gambhir was the dark horse when the senior selection committee met this morning. Gambhir’s

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The first time I saw him was when I was 6 years old. I still remember sitting alongside my mom I was watching that match when as a 16 year old he burst in the international scene. He came down the track with ease and first hit couple of sixes against Mushtaq Ahmed. What happened next is stuff that only happens in fairy tale. Incited by then world’s best leg spinner, Abdul Quadir, he came down the

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Which is the strongest ever cricket team to visit the British Isles?Many cricket followers would nominate the 1921 or 1948 Australians; others might point to the all-conquering West Indies of 1984. However, in 1970, England faced possibly their most formidable overseas opponents of all time in what appears to be a largely forgotten international series of matches. Yet this was a series which went

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which all mediums of information builds up to form media as a whole.(in decending order of influence on public)1. radio2. cinema (do emphacise on cinema) as it is a very strong medium which influences for a lage mass population. it connects to the people. sometimes one needs three hours to convey their message and not 3 miutes small story to influence people.3. newspaper 4. television5.

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The doyen of cricket commentators, Richie Benaud, has announced that he will not be continuing behind the microphone in England after the final Ashes Test at The Oval. Many will not realise the significance of this until the first Test of next summer dawns and there are suddenly no wry observations in the distinctive Australian accent that cricket fans from across the world have grown up

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This photograph was taken at the Gujrat-Maharashtra border..Do you remember the fevicol ad???Isn't it just like that.....

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It was the match that ended timeless Tests in Australia. The longest Test ever played on Australian soil was fought out between Australia and England at the MCG on March 8,9,11,12,13,14,15, and 16, 1929. It was the fifth Test of a series England had already clinched, but Australia fought through to win by five wickets, the locals¦ only victory of the summer.However, despite the home side being

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Jim Laker takes his tenth wicket as Jack Wilson is caught by Roy Swetman © The CricketerJim Laker's remarkable performance in the fourth Ashes Test of 1956 at Old Trafford has gone down in cricket legend. His 19 for 90 remains not only the best bowling in a Test but also in all first-class cricket, and his second-innings return of 10 for 53 is one of only two instances of a bowler taking all ten

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It was the most unwelcome hat trick in the history of Test cricket. Joe Solomon, the West Indian middle-order fighter, was given out in the second Test of the 1960-61 series after his hat fell on the stumps and dislodged the off bail. The MCG crowd was incensed, but the dismissal stood.In the first Test of the classic 1960-61 series, Solomon had etched his name in folklore with two dead-eye

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If New Zealand was ever to declare war on Australia, the events of February 1, 1981 at the MCG would have tipped the Kiwis over the edge. This was the day of the infamous µUnderarm Incident¦, a cricketing low-point that was criticised by Prime Ministers on both sides of the Tasman.It was the third final of the 1980/81 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. Australia had scored a reasonable 4/235, but

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This was the first time I watched a young batsmen representing India. I was still six and a half years old.The official one-dayer had been abandoned because of bad light and a 20-over exhibition match organised instead.probably the first unofficial 20-20 match. Pakistan put on 157 and India only got close thanks to an 18-ball 53 from a 16-year-old Sachin Tendulkar. One over from Abdul Qadir read:

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Whoever devised the Wisden poll for commentary's dream team deserves an elephant stamp. Over few aspects of cricket is disagreement more commonplace - and rightly so. If someone invited themselves to your home, you'd probably form a strong view; a commentator who invites himself to your ear deserves to run a similar critical gauntlet. Nor is the unchanging partiality for Richie Benaud much of a

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A sequence of mails shared between me, Prashant and Abhisheksourabh daga wrote:since abhishek seriously think that we were not one series wonder (MAMC) rather we were a legend who will always be a legend. if that argument hold true then that means that we were big match players who never played club, state, zone level cricket.now here is our oppurtunity to play in a big match scenario-:MCC

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Brett Lee and Michael Kasprowicz could hardly have done any more to turn an Australian defeat into a thrilling victory, but to come so close makes the pain of defeat even worsePerspective, perspective. That's what's needed at a time like this. It's only a game, we tell ourselves. Victory and defeat, it's all immaterial in the grander scheme of things. There have been tight matches in the past -

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Few players enjoyed a closer view of a master bowler at work than Ian Healy, Australia's first-choice wicketkeeper until 1998-99 when Adam Gilchrist burst onto the scene. In this article, originally published in January 2000, Healy outlined the qualities that set Shane Warne apart from his peers. But, even he had no idea of the heights that Warne would go on to scale. Down I'd go into my crouch

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Just another incident which shows us that RSS is only blamed by the media the congress supporters inspired by their ministers and Ala Kaman are even worse.http://web.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/august/115807.htm

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some time back i was telling a friend of mine (after England tour of South Africa) that if england has to make a mark on australia and ashes then Kevin Peiterson has to play a big role.Today is the 2nd day of the 2nd test match at Edgebaston and i guess my perdicions are really coming true.on this occasion i would like to make one more prediction. I beleive that in a year or two Kevin Peiterson

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Attending the editorial meetings can be real fun at times. Just to decide which headline should preceed which can eventually end up in verbal fights and tantrums. Only last night we were pondering wether london terror attack should be the first headline or the revaluation of yuan. Just the idea of having london terror attack as the first headline led to the verbal knockouts. Argument then moved

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