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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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Australian Foreign Minister dragged into IPL controversy

Mar 13th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

This IPL seems to be causing shock waves everywhere. As you’ve probably heard, Australia has cancelled it’s Pakistan’s scheduled tour. Many people are questioning the timing of the decision to cancel the tour, especially because the tour directly conflicted with the IPL schedule. The cancellation especially comes as good news to the Australian stars that [...]

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Australia: The new Pakistan

Mar 5th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Analysis and Speculation, Top Stories

Pakistan has always been the team we love to hate. India Pakistan matches generate a lot of heat and even the entire world cup is planned to have a India-Pak match on a Sunday. I even remember the India-Pakistan WC quarter-final of 1996, when Aamir Sohail showed Venkatesh Prasad the boundary with his bat and [...]

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Australian Government worried over IPL Security

Feb 26th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

This is absolutely ridiculous. TimesNow is reporting that the Australian Goverment is worried that a Terrorist Attack is imminent in India around the time of the IPL and doesn’t want Australian players in India. The Department of Foreign Affairs of Australia issued a strong warning about a possible terror attack on Indian cities like [...]

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Justin Langer says NO to IPL

Feb 25th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

Justin Langer, the Australian player, pulled out of the IPL after having been snapped up by the Jaipur team. Langer was not clear about why exactly he was withdrawing, but instead made philosophical statements like “When you go to your grave, people will remember what you did with your life rather than how much money [...]

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Australia gets excited about IPL Franchise

Feb 23rd, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Teams

India is not the only country where the IPL’s recently concluded auction is causing the media to go crazy. The Australian Media has covered the IPL thoroughly, with lots of speculation and “analysis” about what the future holds for IPL. A part of the reason maybe the recent “Monkey” controversy with the Indian team, but [...]

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Ponting Pissed Off With Symonds

Feb 22nd, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

After being able to get just $400,000 compared to Symonds $1,340,000, Ponting lashed out today against Symonds, saying there was no good reason why he got so much less than Symonds.
“I thought I might have been able to attract a little bit more than that. The fact I haven’t made a lot of runs over [...]

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