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Pakistan favourites for World Twenty20 – Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram has tipped Pakistan to win next month’s World Twenty20 in England. Pakistan have lost just three of their 17 Twenty20 internationals and convincingly beat Australia by seven wickets in Dubai earlier this month.
“Pakistan has the best winning ratio of all the teams in the Twenty20 cricket, so if they continue to keep that [...]

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India in World Twenty20

The tournament begins on June 5th and the Indian team would try to defend its Champions Title. The Indian Team for the World Twenty20 was announced a few weeks back.
Fast bowler RP Singh has been included, with fellow pace man Munaf Patel and wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik missing out from the original 16-man squad.
RP is current [...]

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IPL 2009 – Deccan Chargers wins

Deccan Chargers played wonderfully to take the trophy with them. The whole team runs out and storms the field and what scenes in Johannesburg, one of the greatest venues in world cricket. It was a tense match and in the end Deccan Chargers shined. It was a wonderful last over bowled by the Purple Cap [...]

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Indian Premier League 2009 – Gethu and Vethu Players

We always produce a list of Gethu and Vethu after a major event.
To know what Gethu and Vethu means click here.
To see our previous list of Gethu and Vethu Tamil movies of 2008 click Here.
In IPL 2009 Gethu are those players who have lived up to the expectations and delivered when required and also those [...]

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Indian Premier League – Resurgence of the Seniors

A lot had been said about Twenty20 cricket. It needs quick hitters, young blood who can hit it fast and big, this and that. They wrote off senior players saying it wasn’t their game. But what a better example to prove them wrong than the IPL 2009. Most of the major performers have been senior [...]

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Indian Premier League – Emergence of Younger Players

This year’s IPL has been extremely dramatic and has seen the table toppers being thrown out of the tournament in two dramatic matches in the semi finals. Two teams which were at the bottom of the table last year have made it to the finals and what a turn-around it has been for the teams.
These [...]

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IPL Semifinal 2 – RCB makes it to the finals

If you hadn’t read our analysis of the previous semifinal click here.
What a turn it has been for the two team lying at the bottom last year. The underdogs winning has always pleased the minds. Even halfway through the tournament Bangalore didn’t look that threatening. Now all of a sudden, they are knocking off every [...]

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IPL Semi-final 1 – Gilchrist Hurricane hits Delhi hard

The skillful and outstanding batting by the retired Australian giant Adam Gilchrist made the Deccan Chargers charge into the finals. They have gained immense confidence from such a crushing victory over Delhi, the best team so far in this season of the IPL.
Even after winning the toss Gilchrist wanted to field first just when everyone [...]

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Semi-Finals of the IPL – An Analysis

The league matches of the Indian Premier League have come to an end (It should have stopped with this – It is meaningless to have knock-out matches in a League Tournament but well, it is the IPL and anything can happen in this).
Four teams have made that decisive cut to enter the semi finals, with [...]

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Looking Back at 2008

The year 2008. It was a year with various highlights and tragedies. This post summarises the year 2008 in just two words for each of the situation. Gethu and Vethu. As explained earlier Gethu means superb and Vethu means useless or worst.
So here it goes…
World Economy – Vethu
Beijing Olympics – Gethu
Michael Phelps – Over-Gethu
Mumbai Terror [...]

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