Alex Bedser is not exactly a popular name for most cricket fanatics and many would not have even heard the name. But in his time he was on of the best bowlers around in Cricket and it was a reputation he polished further by taking Don Bradman’s wicket six times in a single test series. …
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Who will make it to IPL semi-finals?
IPL has reached the stage where the points table is taking shape and the men from the boys are being separated quite drastically. Mumbai Indians have left their last two year’s dismal performances far behind and have won all but one of their seven matches. Mumbai Indians do look a certainly to get into the …
IPL comes out with a comic book version of IPL 2009 Final
The Indian Premier League has done something again that is quite unique. They ave produced a online comic book which covers the 2009 Final between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Deccan Chargers. This is quite interesting and is one of the many unique features of this year’s IPL. Some of it has been getting active on …
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Is Ricky Ponting’s famous look-alike George Bush?
Ricky Ponting has become someone everyone respects as a cricketer. He might not have a lot of fans in India and the sub-continents in general but certainly all his rivals respect his ability by wildly celebrating everytime he gets out. Recently Australian media was singing praises that a Ponting would be very hard to come …
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Pune IPL teams fictional jersey [Funny]
It is common knowledge that next years IPL tournament will have 10 teams instead of the current 8 teams. I had written over a month ago on which two cities I felt were favorite to win the bids and I got Ahmedabad wrong as Kochi was the winner but I did manage to predict Pune …
Official presence of IPL on Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and You Tube
The most different thing about the Indian Premier League as been it’s ability to be very accessible. Gone are the days when Indian cricket boards would not have proper websites and when they did have a website it would see more downtime than uptime. IPL brought in millions and like anything that brings in money …
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Watch live IPL matches on YouTube
In my previous post I wrote about IPL website allowing a great interface for setting reminders with the IPL season schedule. So now after reminders what next? The Cricket for obvious reasons. IPL matches will be streamed live on YouTube right through the season. Is IPL a test run for YouTube? YouTube later in the …
Set reminders with IPL 2010 complete schedule for teams and matches
The IPL 2010 season is about to start within the next couple of days. I thought I would publish the calendar for IPL matches to be played this season but I think it would be more prudent and helpful to have a calendar which was interactive as in something with which we could set reminders …
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Play Twenty 20 Cricket on Facebook
If Cricket can have a zillion groups and fan pages on Facebook would a interesting strategy game be too far away. That is exactly what Twenty 20 Cricket, a Facebook application is all about. The application is quite simple but the game a little complex. It pits you as a manager and lets you recruit …
List of World Records Tendulkar owns in International Cricket
Recently the buzz in Cricket is all about Tendulkar who has scored the first double hundred in ODI cricket.
That is a world record and I started wondering how many world records does Tendulkar own.
Here is a compiled list of all records the great man owns…
* Most runs scored by a batsman in Test career: 13,477 runs.
* Most runs scored by a batsman in ODI career: 17,598 runs.
* Most centuries scored by in Test career: 47 hundreds.
* Most centuries scored in a ODI career: 46 hundreds.