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What the fuck is wrong with CNN-IBN? You think you belong to a nation of stupid cricket lovers and suddenly you get a dolt who can’t talk in camera to save his skin? So this guy, supposedly a cricket correspondent, rambled on and on and literally begged for the 30 member World Cup probable list to be shown on screen to save his posterior. I wouldn’t bat an eye-lid if it was economics or politics, but an Indian gent under 30 who can’t talk cricket? Where the fuck was the teleprompter?

I just wish to add that this sounds as surprising as my self-adopted guru doing a post last week highlighting a blog dedicated to Kamal’s career. Since he had advised me, his own protégé, “grow up or to stick to Rajini and Disney blogs and never come close to a political blog” like his, seeing that post has left me speechless. So much that a comment I put in vanished into thin air. Leaving me not just speechless, but comment less too.

Things like these only demonstrate that it is a new year after all. And that things change. WTF! Ya, go ahead and say it again for good measure.

R.I.P Magnus Magnusson

- via the KCircle mailing list…

This post has been on hibernation for at least a week now. And in the meantime a lot of water has flowed under the bridge and some familiar stories have unfolded. But I still possess some of the original excitement that prompted me to start this post in the first place.

It all started, when a couple of weeks ago, I spent parts of some three nights drifting in and out of sleep while watching live feed of the second test match between India and South Africa at Durban. While I don’t remember much about the bowling, some of the batting at Kingsmead is still fresh in my mind. And most of these memories are of Sachin’s batting in India’s first innings, and in particular, two strokes. (more…)