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Mallya serves a warning...

May 12th 2008 13:49
Vijay Mallya has made it clear that the Indian Premier League is not all about cricket, it is also similar to a corporate entity, where in the owners need to see some visible progress in terms of results. Else, the pink slips would be doled like the ones handed out to their CEO, Charu Sharma.

People have to understand IPL has a corporate side to it. It is not all cricket in the traditional sense. I just want to tell Rahul Dravid to do the best he can with this team and produce results. Dravid doesn't enjoy being at the bottom of the league and neither do I

However, the biggest thing that seems to have hit him is that he had a different that needed to be chosen before the first and the second auction, and the team that got chosen by Dravid and Charu Sharma, was very much akin to a team could have taken on the World Test XI. And when quizzed about the same, Dravid had replied back saying that it is a class team and it should perform well.


With that not happening, Mallya chose to serve a warning to the team by letting the first head roll and Brijesh Patel has now been elected as the CEO of the team.

Where this team goes from here, is anyone's guess, but Mallya definitely means business.
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Just when there seemed to be a toss up between risking Abdrew Flintoff for the first Test match against New Zealand, divine intervention has sealed the decision against the all round giant. A side strain has effectively ruled him out of the first two Test matches of the series.

Flintoff's woes with injuries means that the whole of England would have to wait for atleast a couple of weeks before they view the cricketer in action again. And with Paul Collingwood not quite fit as well, the English team may face some tough decisions before the first Test at the Lord's


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The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the governing body for the Lord's Cricket Ground, has come out with some earth shattering revelations. No, it has nothing to do with changes in the fine print of the MCC coaching manual, or a selection of a woman as their next Chief Executive.

It is simply this that the MCC has decided to agree to host neutral Test matches at Lord's and more importantly, it has also consented to host some of the matches of the proposed Champions League! We are not alluding to the sport of soccer here; it is the extension of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that would be played between the best teams of the various T20 leagues across the world. So, a Chennai Super Kings, a Pura Milk Perth Riders, a Vodafone Londoners and an Auckland Blacks side (names are definitely fictitious!), may face off in the Champions League of Cricket, with some of the matches being played in London, more specifically at Lord’s


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The second round of the IPL player auction has come and gone with not too many surprises. The two big named Australians to go under the hammer were James Hopes and Shane Watson - both Allrounders, both from Queensland. Hopes brilliant innings in the second final of the Commonwealth Bank series must have upped his currency in the auction. For me the surprise wasn't his US$ 300,000 price but the team that got him - he joins Brett Lee at Mohali. The team I expected to get Hopes was the team that got fellow Queensland Allrounder Shane Watson - the Jaipur Rajasthan Royals headed by Shane Warne. They spent the least on the first player auction and had more money left to spend but opted not for Hopes. Instead they went for the only English player in the draft - Dimitri Mascarenhas.

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Replacing the irreplacable

March 8th 2008 23:18
Australia in a spin trying to find the next Shane Warne
Say what you like about the man but one thing remains true about Shane Warne - he was the absolute master of his craft. He took the art of legspin bowling to a new previously unseen level and showed how a bowler could dictate terms and really be the difference in a cricket match (either test or one day).

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India has inflicted a defeat to Australia in the final game of the Commonwealth Bank one day tournament and in the process won it. It is the second time in a row the Australians have lost the finals 2-0.

Much has been made of the controversies that have plagued the summer of cricket - racism, sledging, the IPL player auction and now the tackling of a nude spectator - sometimes the actual cricket has gone unnoticed which is a shame


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Need to punish 'bad boy' undoes the Green and Gold

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Just when you thought the whole idea of the IPL player auction couldn't get more crazy...

it has. The actual auction has taken place and is full of such bizarre contradictions and extravagent spending that you would think that there is no poverty in India and that the streets are paved with gold


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IPL player auction

February 21st 2008 14:21
So it's come to this

In what has to be a move for the detriment of the game cricketers are today being auctioned off to the new Indian Premier League - made up franchises, with made up uniforms playing a made up game to make cricket look and feel like football. The net result is going to be an end to international cricket


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Sydney Test - The BuckSonGate episode (LINK)

February 5th 2008 06:12
The Finale

Forget 4 days and 70 overs of seat-edge and occasionally eye-wateringly brilliant Test cricket. Lets start with the finish. 2 overs to go for India to draw this Test at Sydney and move on to the next 2 with a real chance of wresting the Border-Gavaskar trophy from the Australians. India still had 3 wickets in hand and their supporters were wearing tired but proud smiles and could even be forgiven for thinking that it was all over as far as the Australian push for victory in this match


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Imran Khan escapes house arrest.

November 7th 2007 00:22
The further adventures of Imran Khan.

Imran Khan Cricket
Imran Khan does battle on the pitch

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Andrew Symond stands tall

October 22nd 2007 00:04
Andrew Symonds clears the air


Andrew Symonds
The highs and lows of the sport

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A Jamaican Murder Mystery

October 19th 2007 00:04
Bob Woolmer Murder Investigation Begins


Bob woolmer tribute
Did he fall or was he pushed?

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