No Rift

Cry babies.

I guess its time the babies in blue stopped whining. Grow up to face Australia!!!

Jhor ka jhatka

Sahara-BCCI reach compromise or rather BCCI compromises to SAHARA's needs.....
Does this imply that hockey will get the HIT again????

Rain, Rain go away

What a  month for Indian cricket team. I haven't seen anything worse than this. Even the Rain gods failed to support us. And hell, its raining cats and dogs in Bangalore...

Thank god Anna...if it weren't for you, the Indian team would have been bashed left, right and center. I am sure Dhoni is thanking you from the bottom of his heart for taking away the limelight from the Men in Blue.

Chulbul/Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey declines RCB's offer!!!
Manish Pandey despite his heroics in the domestic cricket couldn’t find a place in the Indian team, a good show in the third season of the IPL gave Tiwary a ticket to India team. And guess what, while Pandey finds himself in middle of a bitter battle between franchises to get him on board as an uncapped player, Tiwary, who played three ODIs for India last year, has pocketed $1.6 million from RCB.

On October 20 last year, Delhi left-arm opener Shikhar Dhawan made his one-day international debut. India were playing against Australia and their regular openers Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir were nursing injuries.
 He lasted just two balls before being bowled by Clint McKay; two balls that in the past few words have earned enormous significance.
The stint at the wicket lasted just a few minutes but ended up fetching him $300,000 when Deccan Chargers picked him at the Indian Premier League’s auction held at Bangalore on January 8-9. If he had not played those two balls, the maximum he would have got was $67,000 (Rs 30 lakhs) approximately.
Same is the case with Ojha and Pankaj Singh. Both were part of the India team that toured Zimbabwe for a tri-series in June last year. Ojha played just one ODI and two T20 games. He has since been forgotten by the selectors. But does he really mind?  Ojha’s ‘cap’ got him $270,000 from Delhi Daredevils.

POOR Manish!!!

For more http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/71/201101122011011223295373b0afd57f/Feather-in-the-cap.html

Pawarful idea!!!

BCCI has decided to award the man of the match with 10 kilo Onion!!! Pawarful idea!!!

No Ball?

1st the no-ball in srilanka and then the no-ball fixing in Pakistan. Quite a shameful act.
The most painful part is how did the officials or the management no know about this or were they involved?
Excerpts from hindustantimes :
Interestingly, during the Asia Cup in Dambulla this June, Pakistan teenager Md Amir, one of the three players named by middleman Mazhar Majeed to England's News of the World tabloid as being involved in spot-fixing, was caught on camera holding what looked like a cell phone.
This was later denied officially, and it was (rather vaguely) said that what looked like a mobile was actually Amir fixing the grill of his helmet. Incidentally, this game is one of the four that Majeed claimed he "fixed".
This incident surely indicates involvement of the officials in this.
1 good thing out of this controversy is the no. of NO BALLS being bowled is going to drop. or may be no?