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March 22, 2006
Posted by Amit Varma on 03/22/2006 in Miscellaneous
... is a case study now. Such fun these MBA students have.
March 11, 2006
Posted by Amit Varma 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.
Posted by Amit Varma 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 1, 2006
Posted by Amit Varma 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.
December 16, 2005
Posted by Amit Varma on 12/16/2005 in Miscellaneous
Chandrahas Choudhury reviews Ramachandra Guha's "The States of Indian Cricket," and presents us a couple of delightful excerpts. Worth a read.
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December 14, 2005
Posted by Amit Varma on 12/14/2005 in Miscellaneous
Stealth SMS.
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Posted by Amit Varma on 12/14/2005 in Miscellaneous
Most of my readers would know that I'm a huge supporter of empowering umpires with technology. Well, I support empowering players with technology as well.
Players of today are a breed apart from players of the 1980s. Wait and see how things are ten years from now, and how unintrusively technology enables players to maximise their potential.
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