Posted in Australia, Cricket, tagged Australia, Brad Haddin, cheating, Cricket, kiwi, new zealand, ODI, Ponting, Vettori, waca on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
During a crucial period of an embarrassing [1] loss to the Kiwis last Sunday at the WACA, the Australian side effected the following controversial dismissal:
If you watch the replay, you will find that the New Zeland batsman Broome was given out bowled, but it looks like it was Haddin’s gloves and [...]
Posted in Cricket, India, Life, tagged Cricket, Dhoni, India australia test series, sourav ganguly on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Finally a series win in Test cricket against the Aussies. Well done to the entire team. My wish for the last match of the Fab4 together ending on a winning note was fulfilled.
Dhoni is turning out to be the proverbial man with a Midas touch. Three wins in three tests, a major ODI tournament in [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, Rants, tagged Australia, Cricket, elbowing, gambhir, India, india australia cricket series, kotla, Malcolm Conn, the australian, watson on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Gautam Gambhir apparently purposefully elbowed Shane Watson yesterday in the third test between India and Australia. The Aussies are furious. How dare Indians turn cricket into a physical sport ! It should have been an innovation coming from them.
I reckon they have a fair enough complain, banging into opponent players has no place in cricket. [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, tagged Australia, Brisbane, cb series, Cricket, Dhoni, Gabba, Harbhajan, Hayden, India, Praveen Kumar, Sharma, Sydney, Symonds on March 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla, Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma.
Names I had not even heard of before this Aussie summer. But names that should come up frequently if this recently concluded series is any indication.
And if people had told me back in January that this combination was going to win India its first ODI tournament in Australia [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, Rants, tagged Australia, cb series, Cricket, Greg Baum, harbhajan singh, India, Niranjan Shah, sydney morning herald on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While the Sydney Morning Herald continues to embarrass itself by its near apoplectic harping on the ’scartching’ non-issue (see the previous post), one of its writers, Greg Baum, cuts through the crap (via):
“There are a lot of young people sitting here, and it was inappropriate,” one spectator told The Age. “If he wants respect, he [...]
Posted in Australia, tagged Australia, cb series, Cricket, Harbhajan, India, monkey taunt, Sydney Cricket Ground, Yuvraj on March 2, 2008 | 9 Comments »
….err in the arm-pits. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the gesture is racist (apparently a monkey taunt) !!!!
Check for yourself and judge:
I won’t be defending Harbhajan if indeed he made monkey taunts, but if this is the picture that forms the basis of their accusation, it is a very weak one.
[Not justifying anything, [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, Rants, tagged Australia, Cricket, harbhajan singh, icc, India, ishant sharma, matthew hayden on February 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Updated: Here is the actual mp3 of the Hayden interview from Bisbane’s triple M (via). Apart from the comment on Harbhajan, Hayden mocks Ishant Sharma, mimicking an Indian accent, while inviting the 19-year old into a boxing ring. As I said, real classy behavior from one of the seniormost Australian players.
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Matthew Hayden, otherwise [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, tagged Andrew Symonds, Cricket, Harbhajan, mcg, melbourne, race row on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cricket fans are planning to protest against the Indian side in tomorrow’s Twenty20 match against India in Melbourne.It’s believed text messages are circulating, urging supporters to verbally attack the tourists and their fans in the wake of the Harbhajan Singh race row. (link)
Should make it interesting if any ‘incident’ happens.
MEanwhile, the Australians are probably finally [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, tagged Australia, Cricket, India, perth test, waca on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The recurring theme for the first two days of the test match has been India on the verge of putting Australia away for good, but a combination of luck and Aussie resourcefulness sees the game back on even keel. Most commentators are saying that India are on top, but I still think it is anybody’s [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, tagged Australia, Cricket, India, India-Autralia series, SCG on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…..in case you missed it, there was cricket played over the last five days as well. And some top-notch cricket at that with an even contest right upto that fatal Micheal Clarke over.
(Okay this is the final post about the recent test match…..and will try to restrict to cricketing aspects )
You have [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, Rants, tagged Andrew Symonds, Australia, Cricket, Harbhajan, India, Mike Procter on January 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
[update: Also read this piece by the GreatBong - he is obviously angry. Also, my new post on the cricketing aspects of the test match here].
Mike Procter, the match referee for the recently concluded, controversial India-Australia Test at Sydney, determines that Harbhajan used a racial slur against Andre Symonds (called him a ‘monkey’). Yet [...]
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, tagged an Aussie Goes Bolly, Australia, Bollywood, brett lee, Cricket, gus worland on December 12, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Bollywood is currently quite the flavor down under: huge posters for Bollywood dance parties dot the University of Queensland campus (even yours truly has been cajoled to attend one this weekend), film crews are welcomed in various cities, and of course, there is the cross-over talent of Brett Lee (also watch this).
Not surprising that enterprising [...]
