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Date: 6/4/2010 - 9/2/2010
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An upward swing in Praveen Kumar's fortunes
Aug 31, 2010
There is already talk of elevating Praveen Kumar into the Test team. One is sure that if this comes about, the Meerut-born Kumar, who turns 24 in a month's time, will be a success in the longer version of the game too.
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We must feel angry or the cause is lost
Aug 30, 2010
Cricket is paying the price for a combination of complacency and pusillanimity. After the match-fixing scandal broke a decade ago, India and Pakistan banned some players as did South Africa, who banned Hansie Cronje. But many who were banned like Wasim Akram and Ajay Jadeja continued to be associated with the game in different capacities, as television experts or coaches.
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Winning at all costs!
Aug 21, 2010
Two incidents that show the changing face of the game that we love. You tell me whether it is for the better or worse.
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Gavaskar's reliable partners at the top of the order
Aug 16, 2010
In nearly 100 of his 125 Tests Sunil Gavaskar opened with three partners and they all make a fascinating study in contrast. Chetan Chauhan, Anshuman Gaekwad and Kris Srikkanth could not have been more different in their approach but they all struck a bond with the supreme technician and the result was some of the most successful first wicket partnership stories in Indian cricket history.
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West Indies continues to decline - Ricardo Inniss
Aug 09, 2010
It was exceedingly painful to watch the West Indies team perform, or more appropriately, its lack of performance during the recent third test against South Africa at the "Mecca" of cricket in the West Indies, Kensington Oval, in Barbados.
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Toughness does not mean swearing and abusing
Aug 09, 2010
If anything Indian cricket has been most fortunate with, is that some of the greatest names in the game like Kumble, Tendulkar and Dravid have been such wonderful role models and are recognized as such all over the world.
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ICC should make UDRS mandatory
Aug 09, 2010
Simultaneously watching the two contests - England vs Pakistan and India vs Sri Lanka - one can come to the conclusion that the Umpires Decision Review System certainly has a positive role to play in the smooth conduct of the game.
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Grit and enterprise can overcome conditions - Partab Ramchand
Aug 01, 2010
There are many examples of batsmen and bowlers who have braved adverse conditions and come good. The point I would like to drive home is that cricketers should not adopt a defeatist attitude the moment they are aware that the conditions are not in their favour. A little bit of grit and enterprise can achieve a lot. Yes, when the going gets tough the tough get going.
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Murali is a real magician - Sunil Gavaskar
Jul 24, 2010
Muttiah Muralitharan signed off from test cricket not only by scaling bowling's impossible peak by reaching 800 wickets in test cricket but also helping his team to win the first test match.
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Muthiah Muralitharan is a one of a kind performer
Jul 12, 2010
Whatever figure Murali finishes with is likely to stand forever given the diminishing interest in Test cricket, and despite his own modest assessment that someone like Harbhajan Singh might go past that figure.
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Time is right for day-night Test cricket
Jul 11, 2010
With the MCC World Cricket Committee coming out strongly in favour of day-night Test matches to save cricket's traditional format it surely is no more a question of whether but when the inaugural Test under lights will be played.
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Umpires need to be consistent when dealing with sledging
Jun 27, 2010
The football World Cup might have pushed the Asia Cup into the background, but one still wonders how the Indian and Pakistani players were allowed to get away with their behaviour when players have been hauled up for far less in the past?
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An opportunity to prove Beckenbaur wrong - Sunil Gavaskar
Jun 27, 2010
Luckily it is winter time in South Africa at the moment so the English won't find the weather much different than at home and may yet produce the kind of football that they seem to do for their clubs in the English Premier League but somehow don't always do so when they play for the country.
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WADA, control and TV revenue - BCCI's Asian Games dilemma
Jun 23, 2010
At the heart of the decision is the continued refusal of Indian cricketers to sign the 'whereabouts clause.' Another vital factor is the BCCI's reluctance to be a part of any event over which they neither have control over their players nor earn revenue from TV rights as in the case of multi-sports events such as the Commonwealth and Asian Games and the Olympics.
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World Cricket League Division 4 Preview - The long road to Italy
Jun 23, 2010
On paper, based on their ICC ODI rankings, the countries of the ICC Division 4 are all at the same level. Cayman Islands - 25, Argentina - 26, Italy - 27, Tanzania - 28, Nepal - 29, USA - 30. Nothing could be further from the truth. How else can you explain that USA, ranked 10th in 2007, is now ranked a lowly 30th?
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Dale Steyn - A paceman with a surgeon's touch
Jun 21, 2010
Steyn has all the qualities of a world class fast bowler. More than any other pace bowler he is capable of sending down the unplayable deliveries in the midst of a devastating spell.
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What cricket could learn from soccer - Sunil Gavaskar Column
Jun 14, 2010
It is something that will probably never happen in Indian cricket but wouldn't it be great inspiration for the players to have somebody like Mohinder Amarnath, winner of the Man-of-the-Match in the finals in 1983, in the dressing room as they play the World Cup?
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When the Indians were glorious in defeat
Jun 10, 2010
"Some defeats are more glorious than victories," said an editorial in the Indian Express in June 1967. Forty three years have passed but just mention Leeds 1967 to an old timer and his eyes will sparkle with delight.
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Physical fitness and fiscal fitness go together
Jun 05, 2010
Watching an India-Sri Lanka match without players from either side who together would have made a fabulous XI was strange. I mean, how about this team of players who did not make the trip to Zimbabwe - Tendulkar, Sehwag, Jayawardene, Gambhir, Sangakkara, Dhoni, Muralitharan (or Harbhajan), Zaheer Khan, Jayasuriya, Yuvaraj, Malinga?
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Rohit Sharma has silenced his critics
Jun 04, 2010
Young players coming good is a most encouraging sight and in the case of Rohit who is 23 it must be said that he combines style with substance.
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