I get a little amused when 24 year old anchors analyze SRT’s shots and say ‘He should not have played this shot’…there is a Marathi saying…which is so un-parliamentary that I cannot use it on my site, but fits it well. SRT has played great cricket and led a great life – I am […]

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Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, aka tiger the immaculately dressed Englishman in Indian skin breathed his last. He listened to another Englishman who said – the age to die is ‘3 score and 10’. Well Tiger lived to the age of 70. Like in life, so in death, he was perfect. I saw him on a […]

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1971: first overseas victory in West Indies and England. Images of Chandra taking those wickets. Ajit Wadekar the captain…. 1983: India, rank outsiders, win the World Cup. Beating the mighty West Indies led by Clive Lloyd. Kapil Dev the captain 1985: India win the Bensen and Hedges Cup in Australia. India going in as favorites, […]

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Dr. D Y Patil is a winner of the Padmashree award and his son Vijay Patil has built a beautiful stadium in Nerul and named it after his father. This includes an international stadium, an Olympic sizeĀ  swimming pool, cricket ground, tennis courts, badminton courts, etc. Of course the cricket ground is famous…where you watched […]

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Yesterday (24 Feb 2010) belonged to the world’s most worshipped cricket player ever to have walked the earth. Welcome to the world of Sachin Tendulkar. He displayed a Master class in cricket – and a CD of his best innings with a voice over from Ian Chappell, Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and Rahul […]

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Recently Mr. Sunil M Gavaskar celebrated his 60th birthday. Nothing great about it. His parents were around to bless him – this is a new phenomenon. Many people who are celebrating their 60th birthday are celebrating it with their parents around them. Many of these parents are pushing 80 – some are close to 90 […]

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Do numbers lie? Or is it that liars use numbers to lie? Mutual funds are assessed on the basis of their past performance. So the best fund in the last 3 years is likely to be the best fund in the next 3 years – after all we know history repeats itself! Let us take […]

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