Melbourne Massacre: Reality Check for T20 Champs
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) 
Loading ...The Twenty Twenty champions had arrived at MCG with a lot of promise. The record 84,000 plus crowd was anticipating a humdinger of a Match, but the Aussies once again showed that when it comes to the big stage, they almost always come out trumps.
It is said, Cricket is a great Leveler. (more…)
Sterner Tests Await MSD
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Australia thrashed India by 9 wickets in the one-off T20 in Melbourne, and the harsher of the critics will have already started baying. But critic or not, that match has surely taught everyone one thing: that there is a very fine line between bravado and foolishness. Just before the game, in a press conference, M S Dhoni has said that his players would be treating it as a practice match. Looking at the result, it seems a lot more practice is in store for the entire team. (more…)
Harbhajan Exonerated, Aussie incensed
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Australia incensed by Harbhajan reprieve. This article appeared in Cricinfo.
Harbhajan Singh’s exoneration for his alleged “monkey” comment towards Andrew Symonds has been hailed as a victory for justice in India, but the decision has incensed Australia’s cricketers, who believe their board has caved in to overwhelming pressure from the game’s financial superpower. (more…)
The Emerging Giant and the Giant Killer
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Nobody with his head in the right place might have predicted the two finalists in the Australian Open to be Novak Djokovic and Jo-Wilfred Tsonga. In fact, it seemed impossible that Roger Federer’s winning streak would have ended ; and that too in a semi final. But things don’t always go according to the script. (more…)
Should Ganguly have been omitted from the ODI squad??
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...The selectors are at it again. Chopping and chipping away at a winning combination. Ganguly should consider himself really unfortunate to have been unceremoniously dropped for the ODI’s after registering the best ever comebacks in cricketing history.
Sourav Ganguly is sure to be in a quandary. He had registered one of the greatest comebacks into the Indian team. (more…)