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POSTED BY Buzz
ON May 23, 2013 AT 15:07 IST
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Edited At: May 23, 2013 15:07 IST
If you want to read only one piece on IPL today, make it a point to read this one by Mukul Kesavan, writing in the Telegraph: Much ado about nothing
The uproar about the IPL following the ‘revelations’ about S. Sreesanth and his erring teammates threatens to become farcical...
N. Srinivasan, the BCCI president, is a special target for dead-ender venom. Everything he does is designated nefarious. The fact that he is in charge of the BCCI and the owner of an IPL franchise is deemed a wicked conflict of interest. When Srikkanth wore two hats, one as the chief selector of the national team and the other as brand ambassador for the Chennai Super Kings, the franchise owned by Srinivasan, journalists sang the conflict-of-interest ditty like a theme song. Srinivasan’s decision to make Dhoni a vice-president of India Cements Ltd, a company he happens to own, apparently compounds this conflict-of-interest problem. This carping has got to the stage where not even a man’s business is his own business, if you see what I mean.
If men are known by the company they keep, Mr Srinivasan is in very good company; Anil Kumble has had exactly the same problem with sanctimonious critics. India’s greatest bowler, its most pugnacious captain, a man who has a traffic landmark in Bangalore named after him, had his integrity called into question merely because he started up a player management company at the same time as he became president of the Karnataka State Cricket Association.
Read the full article at the Telegraph: Much ado about nothing
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON May 23, 2013 AT 15:07 IST, Edited At: May 23, 2013 15:07 IST
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ON Aug 18, 2012 AT 17:14 IST
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ON Aug 18, 2012 AT 17:14 IST, Edited At: Aug 18, 2012 17:14 IST
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ON Mar 27, 2012 AT 23:59 IST
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ON Mar 27, 2012 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Mar 27, 2012 23:59 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Mar 16, 2012 AT 20:34 IST
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Yes, yes, we know and totally agree with what Mukul Kesavan wrote last December:
The real cricketing illiterates are the people who believe that adding ODI centuries to Test centuries and arriving at a hundred gives you a heroic landmark. It doesn’t. This isn’t just a meaningless statistic, it’s a pernicious one because it equalizes two different orders of achievement.
...why are we going on like idiots about this non-event, this half-wit’s holy grail? Why can’t we be content to celebrate Tendulkar’s real achievement? Fifty-one Test hundreds… say that slowly because no one will ever score more. And if you must celebrate his 48 ODI centuries, do, but as a distinct and separate achievement. There’s no such thing as an international hundred. If you do want to join his Test centuries to some other figure to bulk out his numbers, add them to his 27 first class hundreds: at least those were made in the same four-innings format of the game.
So celebrate his 49th ODI hundred today and let others add 51 Test hundreds to it and allow others to think of it as some kind of a 100, when the real celebration should perhaps await his 50th ODI ton. As the man himself said, he feels 50 Kgs lighter already.
Meanwhile, let's just raise a toast and smile along with the Amul girl...
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Mar 16, 2012 AT 20:34 IST, Edited At: Mar 16, 2012 20:34 IST
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ON Mar 09, 2012 AT 13:42 IST
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ON Mar 09, 2012 AT 13:42 IST, Edited At: Mar 09, 2012 13:42 IST
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ON Jan 18, 2012 AT 02:31 IST
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ON Jan 18, 2012 AT 02:31 IST, Edited At: Jan 18, 2012 02:31 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Jan 15, 2012 AT 23:59 IST
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After the pummelling at the hands of Australia, Sourav Ganguly says he agrees with the idea of bringing in new players but makes the important point that the selectors have often in the past only gone for soft targets - players whose omission may not create much furore in India: 
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Jan 15, 2012 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Jan 16, 2012 02:39 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 01, 2011 AT 23:24 IST
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Mukul Kesavan, in the Telegraph, argues that Tendulkar is needlessly weighed down by the pressure of his ‘hundredth hundred’ and how the whole, in this case, is less than the sum of its parts:
The real cricketing illiterates are the people who believe that adding ODI centuries to Test centuries and arriving at a hundred gives you a heroic landmark. It doesn’t. This isn’t just a meaningless statistic, it’s a pernicious one because it equalizes two different orders of achievement...
It is to speak and think like a child with ninety-nine coins in his piggy-bank, fifty-one made of silver and forty-eight of lead, who is dying to acquire one more coin of either kind because he will then have a hundred metal coins. The child can be indulged because he’s too young to know better but what of the grown men and women who follow cricket and report and comment on it, who carry on as if something monumental is about to happen each time Tendulkar crosses 50 and then mime tragedy when it doesn’t? Even children know that winning a game of checkers isn’t the same as winning a game of chess even though they’re played over the same 64 squares.
So why are we going on like idiots about this non-event, this half-wit’s holy grail?...
Read the full piece at the Telegraph
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Dec 01, 2011 AT 23:24 IST, Edited At: Dec 01, 2011 23:24 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Aug 02, 2011 AT 22:58 IST
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Edited At: Aug 02, 2011 22:58 IST
While we were —and remain —fully supportive and appreciative of Mahender Singh Dhoni's decision to withdraw the appeal against Ian Bell and allow him to bat again despite knowing that he was fairly given out as per the laws of the game, it is interesting to see the hard-nosed edits from some of the newspapers.
The Indian Express:
That was, simply, the easy way out. Nothing in the laws required it; and only a desire to appear the nice guy, at the risk of diluting the keen competitive edge of the moment, would appear to underlie the decision.
The Telegraph:
It was illogical and almost everyone concerned was in the wrong...By allowing this, everyone, including the umpires, broke the law which says a batsman can be recalled only while he is still within the playing arena. It is difficult to comprehend what spirit was being upheld. Mr Bell and his teammates should realize that they are playing in a Test match and being naïve has no place in such a professional space. The Indian team can bask in the false glory of having done something noble when in reality they perpetrated something that is best described as stupid.
The Pioneer:
There was nothing ‘unsporting’ about the Indian team’s appeal: The bails were knocked off when Bell was out of the crease and our boys rightly appealed for a run-out. The decision to declare him gone was that of the umpire. So, where was the need for such generosity? ... The misplaced concern for gentlemanly conduct takes away from the Indian side the aggression that is needed to swing games in its favour. This has happened before in other sports as well. There is nothing wrong in being brutal on the field so long as one is a gentleman off it. Indian sportspersons need to understand that.
As for op-eds and columns, Kunal Pradhan in the Mumbai Mirror has a good summary of the two camps among the commentariat, and we also once again provide the updated chosen tweets of the controversy as it unfolded (see the full report along with a listing of similar incidents from the past here).
Please tell us what you think and do add links to other editorials in the comments section
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Aug 02, 2011 AT 22:58 IST, Edited At: Aug 02, 2011 22:58 IST
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ON Jul 18, 2011 AT 23:06 IST
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ON Jul 18, 2011 AT 23:06 IST, Edited At: Jul 18, 2011 23:06 IST
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