PSA: T20 tournament in DC on Labor Day weekend

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Cricket Council USA is holding a Twenty 20 cricket tournament in the Washington DC area. The event will feature 4 homegrown teams: Royals, Washington Bengals, JBSA and Washington Tigers.
We received this email from Cricket Council USA.
The DC [...]

Dhoni’s Angels

The captain of the Indian cricket previously featured on this blog for brushes with the law and being the victim of the effigy burning industry, is now threatened by an entirely new species - female fans. [BBC]
Dhoni seems strangely relaxed faced with this new threatimg: via BBC and Hindu
To protect him from this clear and [...]

Live cricket on ESPN360

If you are a hardcore sports fan, you will definitely be familiar with ESPN360. For those of you who are not, here is the lowdown (via Wikipedia)
ESPN360.com is a broadband network for live sports programming in the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Europe. In the U.S. the network can only be accessed through [...]

IPL commentary live on XM ATN Channel 159

To those of you stuck here in this cricketless land with little live coverage, good news for the subscribers of XM radio.
ATN Channel 159 runs live commentary from IPL matches. I meant to post this long time back but kept postponing it. Over the last month or so, I’ve gotten my money’s worth listening [...]

A Twenty20 tournament in the US - part 3

Part 3 - Über Desi goes behind the scenes
Sign prominently posted around the ground
As mentioned previously, we @ Über Desi are too cheap to buy $20 tickets, so instead we got press passes, and unlimited access to the behind the scenes of the tournament.
After obtaining press credentials for the tournament, I had a chance to [...]

A Twenty20 tournament in the US - part 2

Part 2 - The facilities and the atmosphere
The CCUSA pavilion and grandstand in Florida
The CCUSA facility in South Florida is located about 30 minutes to the North of Miami. The ground is round in shape. If you’ve been to a cricket match in the US, you probably know most of them are played on mat [...]

A Twenty20 tournament in the US - part 1

This is part one of a three part series covering the MAQ T-20 international cricket tournament, a Twenty20 cricket tournament held near Miami, Florida, USA.
Part 1 - The tournament
This tournament was the first of its kind anywhere in the US - the MAQ T-20 cricket tournament organized near Miami, Florida by the Cricket Council of [...]

Black IPL cheerleaders claim racial abuse

Two black British cheerleaders in an interview to “The SUN” were quoted as saying that they were stopped from going on stage at an IPL pre-match show by a staff member from pre-match show organisers Wizcraft International Entertainment. The staff members allegedly told the two girls: “people here don’t want to see dark people“. The [...]

Thackeray: Cheerleaders seduce crowd

From the chronicles of the obvious: Thackeray has claimed cheerleaders seduce the spectators in a stadium. [link]
“I am a lover of good sports and music. It is the secret of my cheerfulness. I have a special affinity towards cricket. But till now only cricket was played in the field.
Of course, there Thackeray has conveniently [...]

Mumbai police to police cheerleaders

Mumbai’s mamus (cops) are now out to defend us from evil cheerleaders. [BBC link]
Deliver us from this evil, oh almighty Mumbai Mamusimg: via BBC
Says Ram Rao Vagh, the police commissioner for New Mumbai:
….. organisers could be fined for violating the norms of the entertainment licence they had secured for allowing performances in the stadium.
Senior officers [...]

Washington Redskins cheerleaders in IPL games (Update: Score)

The Vijay Mallya-owned, Bangalore Royal Challengers, have roped in cheerleaders from the NFL team, Washington Redskins, for it’s first four games. [link]
Note: This image is photoshoppedimg via First Post
The Redskins cheerleaders troupe is also expected to train Indian cheerleaders for Mallya’s team. Predictably, Hindu extremists have gone nuts over this move, “as they believe their [...]

The Monkey Controversy

Turns out Bhajji was sledging back - “abe, teri maa ki” when said in a Punjabi accent does sound like “hey big monkey”. [link] (tip: Ahmed via email)

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India suspends Australia cricket tour (Update: Reversal)

Harbhajan Singh’s three match suspension was the last proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. India’s tour was fraught with controversies. Not one but close to half a dozen ridiculous umpiring decisions by Australian and West Indian umpires cost India the second match. [link]
Then Harbhajan Singh was suspended for allegedly calling Andrew Symonds a “monkey”. [...]

Argumentatum ad-hominem? Guilty as charged

If you are desi, you will know that the Indian cricket team is currently touring Australia. And things have not been going well for India. Australia have been their usual efficient selves while the Indians, hampered by a mind freeze by their own board that pooh poohed the lack of preparatory games before the test [...]

Cricketers from across the world in Bollywood cricket movie

The movie titled “Victory” revolves around a small-town boy who dreams of playing cricket for India, novel concept I know. As a (the only??) selling point, it features cricketers from across the world - Sajid Mahmood and Simon Jones from England, Craig McMillan, Daryl Tuffey and Nathan Astle from New Zealand and from Australia Mike [...]

Bidding on for IPL teams

What do Russele Crowe, Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Ambani and Vijay Mallya have in common, besides the fact that they’re filthy rich? They all are bidding for a franchise team in the India Premier League.

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Class Among Cricket Selectors?

As a faithful Sri-Lanka supporter (since my somewhat belated embrace of that most noble of sports), it pains me to realize that we may have seen the last of Marvan Atapattu on the international stage. As I dug through the various accounts of his gradual relegation to outsider, I was struck by the [...]

Indian fan molests Ponting

Greeting from Mumbai! In between travel, religious rites and the obligatory cold and flu bug, blogging has sort of taken a back seat these days.
As I was relaxing this afternoon feeling the effects of my cold medication, my ears perked up and I flew right off my seat as this searing hot encounter took place [...]

India wins Twenty20 World cup. The end of cricket as we know it?

Being at work and not wanting to burden my already over burdened network, I had a few spotters assigned to update me on more than just the score. From what I hear, my sources at home tell me that it was very entertaining.
Is this the beginning of the end of Test / One day [...]

Cliffhanger at Kingsmead

India-Pakistan matches at the World Cups have been nothing short of entertaining and the latest one in the ongoing Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa was no exception.
After winning the toss and electing to chase, Pakistan restricted India to a 141 runs off 20 overs. India tottering at 36 for 4 wickets at one stage [...]

India beat England to tie series [3 updates]

In what my dad would term as “impossible”, India tied the series after being down 3-1. England with 316 off their alloted 50 overs, set a target that would daunt most teams and I for one had given up hope.
But the Indian team managed to turn things around. With 2 wickets in hand and two [...]

Good food = Great cricket.

A ball at a good length is always fun for the batsman. But the English cricket team has come up with more innovative things to place on the field.
Although it is called the gentleman’s game, Cricket is anything but. From the days of the beamer to the current day, there have been ways of [...]

Spent bullets in a new gun?

A few months ago, I had posted about the breakaway Indian Cricket League, proposed by Zee TV head honcho Subash Chandra and the ramifications it would have on cricket as we know it. At that point, it was just that, an announcement.
Is Subhash Chandra trying to do a Packer? Is this independent cricket league [...]

ESPN buys Cricinfo

ESPN’s domination of the world of sport continues as it buys premier cricket information website, Cricinfo.com (link via zaid360.com).

This could be great as long as you can bite the bitter pill that comes with any ESPN coverage.
#1 reason ESPN sucks: The website - Not that Cricinfo’s website is a model for usability engineering or [...]

Anatomy of a flop

Remember “Roop ki Rani Choron ka Raja” (RKRCKR)? I dont. Actually I do, but for all the wrong reasons. The year was 1993. The movie was overhyped, way overpriced, featured aging stars and had a predictable and lacklusture script. It sank at the box office faster than you could say “Anil Kapoor’s moustache”. It is [...]