Sachin Tendulkar

Cricket World Cup 2011: Afterthoughts on the India-Pakistan semi-final

The much awaited, much hyped, Mother Of All Games between sub-continental giants—India and Pakistan—is finally behind us.

India won, Pakistan lost.

Indian fans will celebrate.

Pakistani fans will mourn.

Another sub-continental giant—Sri Lanka—await the men in blue on Saturday, the 2nd of April, 2011 in Mumbai.

Despite it sounding like a cliché on a stuck record, can Team India do it for Sachin Tendulkar?

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Cricket World Cup 2011:Has Yuvraj Singh turned the corner, at last?

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When I think of Yuvraj Singh, I recall his unbeaten 84 in just his second one-dayer against the mighty Australians facing quality fast-bowling in the form of Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie and Brett Lee.

His knock powered India to an unlikely win. A star was born.

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BCCI takes nutritional issue with MS Dhoni (Humour)

It has been learnt, from undisclosed (unreliable) sources, that the meeting the selectors (namely Krishnamachari Srikkanth) and a BCCI official had with Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Gary Kirsten last week was not about team selection (as widely reported in the press) but about nutritional matters.

The BCCI is worried that about the type of endorsements Indian cricketers have taken on  and the non-salutary effect it has had on their diet and hence their on-field performance.

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India beat West Indies in final game, meet Australia next

Sachin, The Don too!

IPL Pay Packets May Get Thinner and the IPL Leaner and Meaner

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Pay packets in IPL4 will be much leaner than in the past three editions.

The simple reason is that supply now exceeds demand.

With the reduction in the no. of IPL teams to eight and Kochi showing no signs of having their house in order for the 6 pm deadline on  Wednesday, 20th October 2010, IPL4 will be a much leaner, much meaner tournament.

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Sachin – God of Cricket(Records)

Another post on Tendulkar! For the statistically inclined!

Have a great day!

Quote of the day:
We are the people our parents warned us about. – Jimmy Buffett

____ Does this say something? About us?

Sachin’s Double!

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I completely missed Sachin’s double, since I was just too busy catching up with my beauty nap!

But some articles from the blogosphere for the cricket fanatics!

http://jinojoy.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/the-little-master/

http://childoftheocean.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/tendulkar-odi-double-century/

http://newshyderabad.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/sachin-becomes-first-batsman-to-hit-odi-double-ton/

http://morethanjustagame.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/and-then-there-was-the-one/

Have a great day!

Quote of the day:
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. – Konrad Lorenz