The Greatest One-Day Innings Ever
24-Feb-2003Sunday, March 2, 2003:::
The Greatest One-Day Innings Ever!
Sachin Tendulkar has produced the most astonishing innings seen in 50-over cricket since the matches began, writes renowned cricket writer Peter Roebuck in his review of the India-Pakistan match.
Source: Rediff.comTendulkar’s treat
No one on the planet save Tendulkar could have played like the little master did against Pakistan at Centurion on Saturday, writes former England all-rounder Vic Marks.
Source:The Observer, UKPakistan needed another attacking bowler
Former Pakistan skipper Imran Khan feels that Pakistan paid the price for not including an attacking bowler like Mohammad Sami in the starting line-up against India.
Source: BBC
World Cup prize money exempt from Income Tax
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh has greeted India’s emphatic win over Pakistan by announcing that the prize money earned by the players at the World Cup will be exempt from Income Tax.
Source: PTI, IndiaKing hit meant for McCullum
It now emerges that the punch that floored Chris Cairns at a Durban night club was originally meant for New Zealand wicket-keeper Brendon McCullum.
Source: The Stuff, NZRead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Saturday, March 1, 2003:::
Losing to India is far worse than not winning World Cup
We don’t want to upset our fans. We have to win today, otherwise who knows what consequences will need to be paid, writes Shoaib Akhtar in his column.
Source: The Guardian, UK
When Sachin played for Pakistan
India’s reigning deity, Sachin Tendulkar, stepped on to the international arena for the first time as a reserve fielder for a Pakistan XI!
Source: Rediff.com’Sickness’ rears its head as cricket fever peaks
Most of the one million Indian expatriates and the 700,000 Pakistanis in the UAE are expected to “fall sick” and stay away from work on the day of the high-profile India-Pakistan match.
Source: Gulf News, UAERead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Friday, February 28, 2003:::
‘Having a cricketer son has not changed our life’
On Wednesday, Ashish Nehra may have bowled as to the manner born, but his family are not deeply knowledgeable about cricket. His brother, in fact, only took young Ashish’s bowling seriously after he castled Ajay Jadeja in a local match!
Source: Rediff.com
Related CricInfo links: Ashish Nehra player pageFans bamboozled by Super Selector
The Great Indian Cricket Fan has been cheated. Not with India’s loss to Australia, but a glitch in an online cricketing game, as participants of the ESPN-Star Super Selector contest were shocked when a technical glitch gave an unfair advantage to certain players.
Source: The Indian Express, IndiaShane Warne assumes the role of scapegoat
While Shane Warne has done wonders for the sale of diuretics in the overweight-blond-white male-smoking-beach bum market, he has done in his career through stupidity. “Stupid” is an often-used word in the Warne affair. When Ricky Ponting was asked if he thought Warne was guilty of naivete, he answered: “Yeah, that and stupidity.”
Source: The Independent Online, South AfricaAustralian streak cannot last – Irani
“There was no doubt who was one of the most sought-after guys in the England camp after our defeat against India. Malcolm Ashton, our scorer-cum-computer analyst, had been up half the night calculating our chances of reaching the Super Sixes…” writes Ronnie Irani.
Source: The Guardian, UKRead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Thursday, February 27, 2003:::
South Africans grateful for Kenya’s win
If one were to tell cricket fans in the Rainbow Nation that God was South African and that His other agent, apart from rain, was Kenya, they would most likely agree.
Source: Allafrica.comBashful bowler catches fire
On Indian cricket’s bad days, when the crowds take to the streets baying for blood, few think about burning an effigy of Ashish Nehra. He has rarely been touched by greatness, so his failures have been more easy to withstand. Things may be different from now on.
Source: The Guardian, UKFallen idol faces his toughest year
It must be quite a chastening experience for a superstar sportsman to be taken out of their pampered world, full of back slappers, $360-an-hour image makers and tummy-tickling television interviewers and sit down before three people who wipe all that rubbish to one side and interview them as if their name is John Smith.
Source: The Brisbane Courier Mail, AustraliaWomen hit a boundary in the gentleman’s game
Have Mandira Bedi and Co. got anything to do with it? One may never know, but this World Cup has definitely got the fair sex’s attention, with an estimated 2.2 crore women having watched the matches being played in South Africa on SET MAX and Doordarshan, the numbers increasing with each passing day.
Source: The New Indian Express, IndiaRead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Wednesday, February 26, 2003:::
Bharats ready to take on Barmys at their own game
On Wednesday at Durban, it will not just be the India and England cricketers who will be locking horns; in the stands the Bharat Army will be ready for a full-throated battle with the Barmy Army.
Source: The Guardian, UKNews of transsexual at opening ceremony enrages Mugabe
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is reported to be enraged after discovering that Zimbabwe’s cricket team was led out into the Cricket World Cup’s opening ceremony by a transsexual.
Source: PlanetOut
The Luos, the backbone of Kenyan cricketIf the Kalenjin tribe from Kenya’s Rift Valley Province have made distance running their preserve, it is the Luos who have dominated their nation’s cricket.
Source: thestaronlineCandidates in quandary to woo cricket fans in four Indian states
Candidates contesting Wednesday’s assembly elections in India’s three north-eastern states of Meghalaya, Tripura, and Nagaland are in a quandary over ways to woo cricket-crazy fans to come and exercise their franchise.
Source: Islamic Republic News Agency, IranMoms worry as India does better at World Cup
India’s return to form at the World Cup has led to sleepless nights for mothers of students appearing for their career-making Class X and Class XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations.
Source: The Times of India, India
Read anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Tuesday, February 25, 2003:::
Access denied!
Trying to catch the action live online at work? Unable to access CricInfo for a reason other than heavy traffic? Check with your office network administrator – he may be one of many who has been instructed to block sites during the World Cup.
Source: Rediff.com
Article URL sent in by Padma ([email protected])Shock win almost unnoticed at home
The way all of Kenya reacted, one would think that they had merely beaten a French Second XI in a friendly rather than the mighty Sri Lankan lions in a World Cup match.
Source: The Star, South AfricaBowled over by cricket stupidity
Whoever felt that an evening on the turps at a Durban nightspot was a sound idea for our national cricket side could even put the crass stupidity of Shane Warne and the doddering incompetence of the game’s governing body in the summer shade.
Source: Stuff, New ZealandJohn Davison is Mr February
A nation hitherto obsessed only with sports on ice suddenly wakes up forcibly as one of its prodigal sons slams the fastest century in World Cup cricket.Source: The Globe and Mail, CanadaPepsico to review Warne contract
What happens when you cast a cricketing superstar in an advert, only to have him chucked out of the premier tournament of the sport on drug-related grounds? Pepsico tries to figure out the dilemma.
Source: Business Line, IndiaRead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Monday, February 24, 2003:::
New Zealand Players pull covers over wild night out
New Zealand players are refusing to comment about the Durban night-club incident despite statements by eye-witnesses that it was their “drunken antics” that led to fisticuffs breaking out.
Source: The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
Saints offer Warne a job
Shane Warne needn’t worry – he has now been offered an alternative sporting career by his beloved Australian Football League Club St Kilda.
Source: The Australian
‘Medicine’ defies logic
How can Warne be slapped with 12 months at the beach when there is no evidence that the “fluid tablet” he had was being used to mask the administration of anabolic steroids, wonders former Australian paceman Geoff Lawson.
Source: FOX Sports
My Dad and his part in rise of the Burnley boy
Ronnie Irani recounts his father’s role in earning James Anderson – young man around town, fast bowler extraordinaire, England’s man of the moment – his international stripes.
Source: The Guardian, UKBrand protection goes into overdrive at World Cup
It is not just the players who are feeling the pinch of the tough ambush marketing clause in operation during the World Cup; the spectators too are. A case in point were two brothers, who were asked to wear their shorts inside out after it was discovered that it sported an ‘unofficial’ logo.
Source: The Times of India, India
Read anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.