Blogs posted on 2006 Dec
Words from the hitchhiker
2 yrs agoCan you describe the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of a pillow when you hit the bed?Haven’t you noticed how people stand when they examine someone else’s bookshelf? The-one-hand-tucked-in-pocket look that all of us are used
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HANNIBAL LECTER IS COMING
2 yrs agoIt's finally here. 'Hannibal Rising', the first book in seven years from Thomas Harris that traces the evolution of the most admired villain in fiction, will be hitting the stores on December 5th.
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The illness that dare not speak its name
2 yrs agoMarcus Trescothick is not the first international cricketer to be afflicted severely by stress. I think he has just reacted very differently to it. I'm sure cricketers on tour in days past, when tours were longer, when telephone communications were p
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"Maybe the Indians should start eating boerwors"
2 yrs agoSo writes my friend from Durban, who went to see the one-day international in which India merely confirmed their reputation as bad tourists. Oh, they are polite and well-mannered all right with the locals; they don't haggle excessively; they are reas
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Dada, is that you?
2 yrs agoWow, Dileep Premchandran manages to write about Ganguly's possible recall to the Indian test team in South Africa without gagging. Poor Dileep, no one was more triumphalist than him when India went on their usual at-home-we-thump-all rampage in the l
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Whats the point?
2 yrs agoPoor Zaheer Khan. He hasn't yet figured out that Indian pace bowlers that get dramatic early breakthroughs condemn their side to defeat. Srinath took two wickets in the first over of the World Cup semi-final in 1996 (gee, we know what happened therea
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Two results
2 yrs agoTwo results. One inevitable, one surprising. The PCB lifts its ban on Shoaib and Asif (come on, did you really think the ban was going to last? This blogger was skeptical about it lasting and it didn't). And England lose the second test to Australia
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The beat of a different drum
2 yrs agoIn the midst of the opprobrium being heaped on England's head, let me strike a slightly different note (not discordant, just different). Australia deserve to be 2-0 up, but they are vulnerable. They deserve to be 2-0 up because they have played bette
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Back up the talk?
2 yrs agoAn interesting little nugget at the end of this report on the Indian win over the Rest of South Africa:[Rudolph] wasn't quite so kind though when asked about the various on-field incidents, which had seen parts of the game played in a heated atmosphe
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Might as well
2 yrs agoAh, what the heck, I'll have a go. Here is my Indian XI for the first test:Jaffer, Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman, Ganguly, Dhoni, Pathan, Kumble, Zaheer and VRV Singh. Dodgy points: why no space for Sreesanth? Why not Harbhajan? For the first, Si
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