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Archive for April 2008

What’s Next, Dravid?

Apr 30th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Top Stories

As the Bangalore Royal Challengers sunk to yet another defeat in the tournament, the question “What Next?” needs to be asked of the captain of the Bangalore Royal Challengers. There is something not right with the team. You can just tell this by watching the performance of the team.
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SONY blacks out telecast

Apr 30th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

Today’s Bangalore vs Delhi match was nowhere to be seen on TV for some reason. SET MAX is showing some highlights of some old match because of “technical problems”.
This frustrates me endlessly. Firstly, they spend so much money obtaining the telecast rights - Literally millions of dollars, and then these kinds of things happen. I [...]

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Boundaries Shortened For IPL Matches?

Apr 29th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

Have you folks noticed anything special about the boundaries at all the stadiums? They’re all looking very suspicious to me. In today’s Eden Gardens game, it looked like the boundaries had been pulled closed by about 3-4 meters! This was even very noticeable at the Bangalore Chinnaswami Stadium where the boundaries looked shorter by 2-3 [...]

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Royal Challengers Commit Suicide

Apr 28th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

So its looking like its going well for the home team at Bangalore against the as-yet-unbeaten Chennai SuperKings. Two batsmen have gotten 50s, and the team needs to score at a comfortable 8 runs an over with 7 wickets in hand. Looks like its going to be an easy win from here for the Bangalore [...]

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No More An Ambassador

Apr 28th, 2008 | By Raveesh | Category: News

One more off the field controversy now. Nayanatara, Tamil film actress has been dropped as brand ambassador of Chennai Super Kings with immediate effect. As per the contract, Nayanatara had to appear for all the 7 matches of home team played at Chennai. Nayanatara did not turn up for the first match at home for [...]

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Harbhajan Kicked Out Of IPL!

Apr 28th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Top Stories

It seems Harbhajan can’t get out of all controversies unscathed. The latest “slapping” controversy has proved costly for Harbhajan with the Match Refree slapping an 11-match ban on Bhajji. That effectively ends his IPL stint. And I’m inclined to say he deserved it.
This is not the first time Bhajji’s behaved like a 8-year old. Slapping [...]

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DY Patil Stadium looks Gorgeous!

Apr 28th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

Mumbai’s brand new Dr. D.Y. Patil stadium hosted its first IPL match yesterday between the hosts Mumbai Indians and the Deccan Chargers. Apart from the blistering fastest-hundred-in-the-IPL-yet from Adam Gilchrist, the newest stadium in Mumbai was looking gorgeous!
The capacity crowd that game in was impressed too. It has three levels all around and can seat [...]

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IPL : The Week In Review

Apr 27th, 2008 | By Raveesh | Category: Top Stories

The tournament which began with a one man show by Brendon McCullum, on April 18, has seen some typical, hard fought T20 matches. Raise of low profile teams, especially Team Jaipur (Rajasthan Royals) has surprised everybody. Not to forget those teams which were expected to do better, have faded off with most prominent example being that of [...]

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Aussies Dominating IPL

Apr 27th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Top Stories

The Australian players are thoroughly dominating the IPL series in the Indians’ own backyards! Splitting up the IPL teams nation-wise is probably not a good idea, but lets just do it for experiment’s sake. When you look at the IPL that way, it is quite clear that the best has by far come from the [...]

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Royal Challengers getting Royally Screwed

Apr 27th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

The Rahul Dravid led Royal Challengers suffered their second defeat at home, and that too at the hands of the “dark horses” Rajasthan Royals. If you saw the game, it was quite clear that the Bangalore team was not jelling together as one team. When Dravid was asked at the start of the game how [...]

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