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  • USA Cricket: Episode 5 - Guest Thiru Kumaran on the US Cricket Podcast

    Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Peter Della Penna (on Twitter ) USA head coach Thiru Kumaran is the latest guest on the US Cricket Podcast. Kumaran, 37, played eight ODIs for India in 1999 and 2000 before a back injury curtailed...
    Posted to Weblog by openingbat on 04-27-2013
  • (G)ODIS no more

    The first time I watched him in action was on the new year's day in 1989 playing for Mumbai against Baroda at the Dadoji Konddev Stadium in Thane. It was his first season of first class cricket but he was already famous for his world record partnership with Vinod Kambli. Most of the crowd at the...
    Posted to Weblog by namya on 12-23-2012
  • Tendulkar and Skyfall

    Spoiler alert - Don't read if you are planning to watch the movie One was desperately looking for Sachin Tendulkar's name in the credit list of the latest Bond movie 'Skyfall'. The rationale was simple. The first half of the movie rotates entirely around Tendulkar's life story over...
    Posted to Weblog by namya on 11-05-2012
  • How Sachin got saved from moving to South India

    Sachin frantically calling up Bhajji just before the commencement of IPL V – “Aila, Bhajji, we have a problem on our hands. Arjun has suddenly started saying since yesterday that he wants to shift to Bengaluru and wants me to move to RCB. He says that his genetic shortcomings can be overcome only if...
    Posted to Weblog by namya on 03-31-2012
  • Five Secrets to Successfully Working With Americans At Cricket

    Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Tom Melville 1. When In Rome... When people who grew up in cricket playing countries ask me what they have to do to get Americans interested in cricket the first thing I say to them is, “Renounce...
    Posted to Weblog by openingbat on 10-07-2011
  • Criticising Sachin in anti-national?

    Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon Sachin Tendulkar is being used once again. This time by political loudmouths so keen on protecting his good name that they think nothing of throwing dirt on the fair name of our democratic...
    Posted to Weblog by openingbat on 09-26-2011
  • Shazahn Padamsee bowls you over

    Maxim did a cricket shoot with Shazahn Padamsee in February. Here's what she had to say - You watch cricket. Who is your favourite player? My favourite would be Virender Sehwag... because no matter what you throw at him, he tries to hit it for a six. Who’s the hottest cricketer in the world? Sachin...
    Posted to Weblog by openingbat on 08-07-2011
  • What is the yardstick for selection to the Indian team?

    Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricke t By Partab Ramchand Should the IPL constitute a yardstick for selection to the Indian team? Or should it be domestic first class cricket? Or the recent World Cup? These questions have been raised following...
    Posted to Weblog by openingbat on 05-15-2011
  • We were the champions my friend

    Formula 1's most exciting news for few years was about the return of the King. He had left a void in the sport which other pretenders couldn't fill. Or so we thought. Schumi would turn back the ravages of time to emerge victorious as always. But the script went wrong somewhere and today Schumi...
    Posted to Weblog by namya on 05-12-2011
  • Happy Runmashtami

    India is a country with a lot of national holidays where holidays are defined as days on which the Indians officially don’t need to work. The variety of reasons for these national holidays vary from those with religious significance viz. Diwali, Xmas, Eid, to the birth days of departed national heroes...
    Posted to Weblog by namya on 04-23-2011
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