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Scroll Articles - Current Issue: A Film on Cricket in India
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue. Saturday, 31 December 2011. A Film on Cricket in India. There is a filmmaker who loves cricket, characters and cinema – not necessarily in that order. He has now decided to combine all three into a documentary which captures the national passion with throbbing eloquence. The product, with its current working title Beyond All Boundaries, is receiving the vital finishing touches. Sushrut has now followed it up with this documentary which captures the progress of India durin...
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue: Why do People Criticise Sachin?
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue. Saturday, 31 December 2011. Why do People Criticise Sachin? I had memories, statistics and inferences, but not the answer to a burning question. And that made me travel to Amsterdam. My wife sometimes refers to my ability of recall as ridiculously eidetic. While it has never enabled me to remember proofs of theorems or the final date of income tax filing, when the action shifts to the flannels on green it is indeed striking. I remember him turning things around with a mag...
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue: Did the Don Finish at 100+?
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue. Saturday, 31 December 2011. Did the Don Finish at 100? Consider a Test series with Batsman A coming in at No 3 and rattling up scores of 166, 23, 1, 40, 3, 53 not out and 20 – a total of 306. Now think of the No 11 batsman B of the same team in the same series, who scores 8 not out, 23 not out, 11, 7 not out, 2 not out - a total of 51. However, can their performances be considered equivalent? Would Sobers and Sutcliffe exchange places in the honour roll? Would Sir Don Bra...
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue: Book Review - Life of Pi
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue. Saturday, 31 December 2011. Book Review - Life of Pi. A tale of incredible grit in truly testing times of adversity. Should this book be deemed to be a fantasy, given its entrancing, yet far-from-credible, storyline? Or should we designate it as an epithet of growing up philosophies, as felt by a surprisingly erudite 16-yr-old protagonist? Maybe we should mark this as a book of daring adventures and (literally! Released in Sep 2001. The story is set in 1977, in Pondic...
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue: Movie Review - Angels in the Outfield
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue. Saturday, 31 December 2011. Movie Review - Angels in the Outfield. Angels in the Outfield – a comedy on baseball, faith and hope that runs close to 1 hr 45 minutes with a surprising PG rating (considering that in the present day, parents are the ones who need their children's grudging guidance in understanding the expletives rampant in what are deemed to be today's civilized movie masterpieces). Of the same name. Harry and the Hendersons. If Looks Could Kill. Despite the ...
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue: Rain
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue. Saturday, 31 December 2011. Many of the pages of much publicised, eagerly awaited chapters of history – episodes that were slated to go hot and smoking to the press, nuggets of anecdotes sizzling and seasoned on the sun baked first day pitch – are often rendered soggy by rain, ripped off the book of cricket. Who knows if Dale Steyn looked at his fingers knowing that the red cherry would zip and zoom across the twenty two yards in the most lethal streaks? Accounts, anecdot...
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue: Beyond Boundaries of Cricket and Science
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue. Saturday, 31 December 2011. Beyond Boundaries of Cricket and Science. By the time Virender Sehwag’s bazooka of a bat had blasted and blitzkrieged its way to the world record score of 219, the reaction of many a keen follower was not ‘wow’ but ‘at last’. Two triple centuries and once tantalisingly close to a third, huge hundreds and double hundreds, and now this 219 in a One-Day International, these form ample evidence that whatever alternative manual of cricket he has wri...
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue: Big Brother Batting
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue. Saturday, 31 December 2011. Some felt he couldn't play the bouncer, others swore that he was God on the off-side" – thus begins Sourav Ganguly's bio on Cricinfo. And for reasons other than intended, it characterises opinions about the man to perfection. As in most of the myths and legends built around this one of a kind cricketer, both these assertions are glorified half truths at two extremes of criticism. Let me come back to the initial statements. Overall he scored 721...
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue: Bring On the Quicks
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Scroll Articles - Current Issue. Saturday, 31 December 2011. Bring On the Quicks. Year…” – and the applause that followed that sentence. Forget fast bowling pairs, we in India have not even had one genuine fast bowler we could get excited about. Ghavri or Madan Lal? Fast Forward to November 2013, to the series against South Africa in South Africa. Aaron and Yadav are steaming in at the Springboks, and having Smith, Amla, De Villiers and co. on the back foot with four slips and two gullies, and a ...A Fre...