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T20 grows cricket

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Peter Roebuck argues T20 is working wonders for the game. Persuasive stuff.

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A painful confession from a purist

Monday, June 15, 2009

I kinda like Twenty20 cricket. It mostly reminds me of how we played - both in real life and in our fantasies.
Also, both in IPL-2 and in the ongoing second Twenty20 World Cup, bowlers, especially the good ones, have some say. That has also been a surprise.

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The Entitlements of being a Cricketer

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Sidarth Monga has a remarkable story in Cricinfo on Ewen Chatfield, the former New Zealand medium pacer. Monga reports that Chatfield now drives taxi for a living. For someone who played 43 test matches and 114 ODIs and took over 260 international wickets, Chatfield displays no sense of entitlement.
A refreshing contrast to our cricketers, who [...]

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