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Sunday, August 16, 2009 8:30 AM

Too few sarees at the IPL... It's just not cricket!

Can a woman go watch an IPL game in a saree? Can she dress like that and sit in the Wankhede Stadium press box? The teams have uniforms, the cheerleaders are uniformly cheering. No surprise then, that uniformity has spread to the galleries as well. You...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:11 AM

As in cricket, so in tennis... yesterday once more?

After more than a decade of teen rule, men and women, as opposed to boys and girls, are once again ruling sports. I hasten to add that none of the men and women mentioned below are senior citizens in normal everyday terms, but they are veterans when it...
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Friday, April 17, 2009 7:41 PM

Abhinav Bindra does not play cricket

It’s IPL season once again, and the Balika Badhus of the world are running for cover as the big daddy of all TRPs will dominate every TV screen in sight for the next six weeks. The legend of the Indian cricketers will grow and some of the foreign cricketers...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:43 PM

Sourav Ganguly and keema naan in Lahore

The Indian cricket team was in Lahore exactly five years ago. They had reached the city for the last two one-dayers of the Samsung Cup. The Indians landed in Lahore trailing 1-2 in the series, and needed to win both games at Lahore's Gadaffi Stadium...
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:05 AM

Azharuddin: Cricket captain or politician?

The Indian captain's job is widely considered the second toughest in the country, after the Prime Minister's—a fact Sourav Ganguly often mentioned in media interviews and press conferences. Why, then, is Azharuddin the only former captain to throw...
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