Never having been a Shah Rukh Khan fan, it would be easy for me to gloat about his currently beleaguered condition. Particularly because, like most Kolkatans, it was irritating to watch SRK ‘buy’ a team that was nominally attached to the city I live in, waltz in, and try to become a Kolkatan overnight, giving [...]
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Fall of Badshah Shah Rukh Khan!
Posted in Bollywood, Cricket, tagged Indian Premier League 2009, IPL 2009, KKR, Knight Riders, Kolkata Knight Riders, Shah Rukh Khan, Shahrukh on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thank God It’s South Africa!
Posted in Cricket, tagged IPL 2009, South Africa, T20, Twenty20 on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having despairingly watched cricket die a slow death on pancake-flat Indian — make that subcontinental — pitches, and the odds increasingly stacked against hapless bowlers, it is inexpressibly refreshing to see the latter get some of their own back in the Twenty20 format, of all things.
The primary reason has to be the location shift to [...]
He’s Back!
Posted in Cricket on September 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he somehow makes one forget all past lapses. He makes boys of sensible, responsible men (and girls of some women), who scream with joy as he pulls savagely over backward square leg for one six, or tonks one back over the bowler for another. Presto! Stocks rise, tempers [...]
Quick One
Posted in Cricket on September 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Watching the India-West Indies match and thinking dark thoughts about the Greg Chappell-Rahul Dravid combo as I watch the world’s best number three walking out to open. A journalist friend tells me he has access to a tape that went around after Sourav Ganguly’s sacking roundly abusing the sackers. Will let you know once I [...]
