By ROHIT NAIR 24 Apr. 11:19.15 PM He cared a damn. At the first class lounge of the world’s most famous stadium, he sat watching the Indian team play. Sad game. He was biting his nails out of fury. Why the **** was the team playing so miserably! To him it was a question of …
“In my opinion, if I have to tell the truth, they (Indians) will never have hearts like Muslims and Pakistanis. I don’t think they have the large and clean hearts that Allah has given us,” Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi once said. The uproar this statement created in the Indian media was obvious. And, It …
With the Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik warning his players to stay away from match fixing, speculation is rife. If Pakistan loses, Malik can hide behind the loss by saying his winning team lost because there was more money to be made in match fixing. If Pakistan wins, he can always say that match fixing …
It’s official. India takes on Pakistan come Wednesday, March 30th. Beating Australia by 5 wickets convincingly has given TEAM iNDIA an edge. After all, they have beaten three-time world champions. But what is commendable about today’s batting performance is how five batsmen pitched in to seal the match: Suresh Raina, Tendulkar, Kohli, Yuvraj and Gambhir. …
Written off for his poor form, Australian captain Ricky Ponting did good today. With a century knock almost averaging a run every ball, 104 off 118 balls, he played with poise. That he got back his form did help, but the patience with which he steered the innings is commendable. Teams like India and Pakistan …
While reading about India’s unfortunate performance against the South Africans this week in the first test, I realized I have been watching Sachin Tendulkar, the only batter who showed some real fight in the match, play cricket for nearly 20 years! I am an Australian, and in 1991, I was still looking forward to my …
I agree with Indian cricket coach Gary Kirsten. He says playing in the IPL cost the Indian team the T20 World Cup. Why? Player fatique and injury. Easier said. But then, why didn’t he sound an alarm when the IPL schedule was announced? Why weren’t senior cricketers and concerned sports buffs airing their views before …
Okay, okay. The Fake IPL Player (fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com) has revealed himself and still concealed himself. With 43 venomous posts on the goings on in Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders team and his inside scoop on all things Indian Premier League, FIP had indeed turned many heads. This included King Khan himself who launched a fervent …
Agreed, the Vikram Bhat-directed film Jannat, which has its premise on match fixing, could have been better. But then, it’s a love story with match fixing just as a backdrop. And as it is, the film is engaging enough. However, its Engage Quotient could have been several notches higher if it had uncovered several intricacies …
I saw him the first time with Raveena Tandon at Windsor Sheraton’s Jolly Nabobs. It was the premiere of Arjun Sajnani’s film Agni Varsha. I didn’t know the guy sitting next to Tandon was Samir Singh, who took the place of Mark Mascarenhas at WorldTel. A few days later, a chance telephonic conversation with Prasad …
True, the newly-released film Jannat, which has its premise on match fixing, could have been better. But then, it’s a love story with match fixing just as a backdrop. And as it is, the film is engaging enough. However, its Engage Quotient could have been several notches higher if it had uncovered several intricacies involving …
Here are some more luminaries who stood out during the course of my journalistic career spanning a little more than 12 years. Karan Johar, filmmaker: This was at the launch of his film, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. I asked him when he cried for the very first time in a cinema hall. “When Gregory Peck …
