The Duniyah Cricket Blog

Last week I attended in London a “summit” organised by the Indian magazine Tehelka, the list of speakers and the title of the summit promised much. However much like anything to do with politics in the subcontinent, it disappointed ultimately as tired cliché after cliché was recycled without respite. Now the seminar was not without [...]

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We have the same debate after every poor performance, they come back with a great performance the next match but the underlying issues are never solved.
The only good decision made by Lawson and Malik is finally to get Malik to open with Butt. This combo MUST be kept for both ODI and Tests. There is [...]

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With the situation in Zimbabwe worsening every day, the game of cricket has a decision to make regarding Zimbabwe. The line so far that has been adpoted by some of the countries on the ICC has been one of sports and poliics should not mix. Well is the situation in Zimbabwe really about politics anymore? [...]

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This is the big question.  The Sensex is now at the quite amazing levels of 14,220, just a few months ago there were brokerage houses coming out with rosy predictions of the Sensex touching 30K. Well we seem to have some some semblance of reality now, but the question that comes to mind is - [...]

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The Indian consumers are on a roll. The average amount spent by the Indian middle and upper middle class has risen astronimcally in the last 10 years. The Indian market is huge and multi-national companies are just coming to grip with its big potential. At such a time, everything which can be put in a [...]

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For me was WC final 1999. It was a day before my important Maths A level exam, I decided to forego my revision and watch the match.
Pakistan won the toss and I was very happy because Pakistan had mainly won after batting first and setting a big total with the help of late pushes from [...]

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A Brief History
Marco Polo was the first person to make any mention of these islands that lie off the coast of India in the Bay of Bengal. Although he did not actually set foot on any of the islands and merely sighted them on his journey back to Europe. There are over 570 islands, many [...]

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Along with the persistent retirement rumors,
Does any one really think the Undertaker character is dead and he is only a popular guy now?
If we look at the Undertaker’s gimmicks, he is supposed to be feared man. He is the dead man, If any of you watched or even experienced The Undertaker in his early days [...]

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After a phenomenal 2007 during which new highs were tested on a regular basis, the current year has brought the Indian Stock Market crashing down to earth. Jittery investors have had one worry or another to make them exit the stock market in droves this year. The new year started with heightened worries over the [...]

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Just a quick post to help those who may not know how to do this. In fact this is very easy - just go to the HTML view when writing a post and then post the embed link from youtube (or any other video service) on the blog you are writing. Do not use the [...]

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