Karun Chadok impresses & India to host GP in 2010

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Karun in the RBR pits. Image from http://karunchandok.com

Karun Chandok made the best use of his test with Red Bull Racing, driving alongside David Coulthard, the past two days. Sitting in the cockpit of the Red Bull [...]

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 [...]

The final countdown…

47 days later, it all comes down to one game. Two teams, one that has steamrolled every single barrier in front of them and the other that while not being as spectacular as the other, has come out with a professional performance every single time. Australia has been the behemoth that everybody loves to [...]

New Zealand vs Sri Lanka - A Preview

Have I ever told you that this World Cup is the most evenly matched tournament in its 30 year history? Oh I did? Let me tell you again. This World Cup is the most evenly matched tournament in the 30 year history of the tournament. And this first semi final match is no exception. Man [...]

I told you so!

It has been so long since I posted here that I almost forgot why I had a login and password here on Uber Desi. These past couple of weeks, every day I used the login and stared blankly, not knowing what I was doing there. But this morning, it all changed. Well, it was when [...]

Fast Bowler? Out of work? Then think Bollywood.

Injured Australian bowler Bret Lee and member of the Australian rock band Six & Out is making good use of his recovery time and planning for when he retires.
Bret’s manager Neil Maxwell who is in India along with Bret meeting with sponsors had this to say

The focus is to build a platform for Brett [...]

Whag’ Wa Mon - Jamaica and the Cricket World Cup

The Party Stands - My home for the opening game.
Location: Jamaica, Kingston
Time: 3:30 a.m.
Dolo: “You going to be ready tomorrow morning?” (of course not sober at all!)
Me: “What? oh what time?” (by this time did not understand what sober meant!!)
Dolo: “Get your brown a… to my front porch by 7:00?”
Me: “In the morning?”
Dolo: “Whag Wa [...]

Kicking them when they are down

Indian Cricketers:From hero to villian in less than a month
Before India’s now disastrous World Cup campaign, it was hard to read or watch any India related media without sycophantic fans and journalists sucking up to the Cricket team and egging them to win the World Cup. Now that the Indian players have returned home, after [...]

March Madness v/s Cricket World Cup

Tim Dahlberg, an AP Sports Columnist expresses how in his own myopic world, the NCAA March Madness is superior to the Cricket World. To prove his point he chooses to focus on the two of the current black eyes for World Cricket – the murder of Bob Woolmer and crazy Indian fans burning effigies of [...]

India vs Srilanka and the group of death…

It has been a tumultuous week at the World Cup. Whatever euphoria that the non partisan cricket fan felt after the twin upsets of last Saturday soon vanished the next day as news of Bob Woolmer’s death filtered in.
Since then it has been a week full of intrigue mostly. Everybody and their pet dog have [...]

The carnival begins - part deux

Yesterday we looked at the league phase and the Super Eights. Based on the obvious shortcomings that most of these teams have, we eliminated everyone except the five best teams. Four of these five will play in the semi finals. The beauty of this particular World Cup is that each of these five teams can [...]

The carnival begins…

So the big day dawns tomorrow – start of a the longest World Cup so far - 54 games, 16 teams and perhaps the closest tournament in the 30 year history of the game. All of which makes it difficult for someone as lazy as yours truly to do any justice to the tournament while [...]