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March 22, 2006
Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 03/22/2006 in Miscellaneous
... is a case study now. Such fun these MBA students have.
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March 11, 2006
Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 03/11/2006 in Miscellaneous
The stands stir to life when Yuvraj Singh walks in to bat. The press box comes alive when the sandwiches come.
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Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 03/11/2006 in Miscellaneous
Anil Kumble has just taken his 500th wicket, and newspapers from across the world have asked me to build a software engine that will construct reports on Kumble automatically: all bylines will be affixed after the reports are generated.
Here's a list of key words and phrases I'm planning to use to construct the report:
Bespectacled, engineer, mild-mannered, soft-spoken, unlike Warne and Muralitharan, metronomic line-and-length, hardly turns the ball, flipper, loyal soldier, matchwinner.
Don't believe me? See the reports tomorrow!
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March 9, 2006
Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 03/09/2006 in Thoughts on the game
Should women's cricket be subsidised by earnings from international men's cricket? Should domestic cricket? My answers to those questions, in order: no and yes.
Domestic cricket acts as a feeder system for the international game; the healthier it is, the more international cricket benefits. Thus, there is good reason to subsidise it.
But women's cricket offers no such benefits to men's cricket. It should pay its own way.
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March 1, 2006
Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 03/01/2006 in Random, yaar!
Gaurav is amused by the number of English cricketers leaving for home before the Test series has even begun. Yes, much fun. But you corner these chaps and you know never, they might just be pushed into raising their game. They've still got some fabulous players left.
And, of course, they've got young Ponty. I can't wait to see him bowl to Sehwag and Dhoni.
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Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 03/01/2006 in Miscellaneous
I'm back from touring Pakistan, where I was covering India's Test series for the Guardian. I also blogged a fair bit on India Uncut (scroll down, or see Jan and Feb archives), but did not have the mental bandwidth to be able to update 23 Yards in that time. Apologies for the absence. Here I am now.
I'm covering India's Test series against England for the Observer, but I'll keep blogging through the series, if somewhat sporadically. Full service will resume once the series is over. Thank you for your patience.
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December 30, 2005
Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 12/30/2005 in Random, yaar!
It's that time of the year, and 23 Yards is on holiday for a few days now. But I had to leave you with some cricketing stuff to mull over, so here's my post in Metroblogging Mumbai on the decline of Mumbai cricket: "Whatever happened to the cricket?"
[In a gruff tone] I'll be back.
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December 23, 2005
Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 12/23/2005 in Random, yaar!
This study reminds me of the point I'd made here more than a year ago: the cause-and-effect relationship between success and happiness doesn't always happen in the order we think.
(Link via email from Dev Kumar.)
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December 20, 2005
Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 12/20/2005 in Moments
Such a fine moment it was. Towards the close of the third day of the Ahmedabad Test between India and Sri Lanka, Malinga Bandara beat Anil Kumble with a ball that bounced sharply, and Kumble gave the widest smile you'll ever see. It had joy, delight, pure happiness. "My turn next," he seemed to be thinking.
Fun would come.
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December 18, 2005
Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 12/18/2005 in Random, yaar!
Veeru, Dada, Yuvi, Mahi, Bhajji: such familiarity we show with our players, as if we know them so well, as if we call them up whenever we're bored and say, "Kya Veeru, kya chal raha hai, ek beer-sheer ho jaye?"
And sometimes I think about how I would feel if strangers started calling me by my nickname, and if I saw it on newspaper headlines, heard it on TV, saw it used and abused in heated discussions in online bulletin boards. How strange that would be.
We think we know these men so well, but really, I'm sure we know very little.
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December 17, 2005
Posted by Partha Sarathi Banerjee
on 12/17/2005 in Random, yaar!
A nightmare for every bowler:
N..NNNNNNNNN.WN.2.
That's one over from Gladstone Small during a Warwickshire v Middlesex game at Edgbaston in 1982. And in case you're wondering where the wide came from, it happened when, as is described here, Small shortened his run-up to two paces to put an end to the no-balls.
(Trivia via "Next Man In" by Gerald Brodribb.)
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