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Here lie the last remains of Sir Worrell’s dreams
May 6, 2010, 2:15 AM IST
Bridgetown: About three years ago, a little house behind the New Empire Club was brought down in a blaze of hope and promise: the government, ostensibly driven by shame, promised to build a grand structure…
May 6, 2010, 2:15 AM IST
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Don’t trifle with Times Shield
May 4, 2010, 8:13 PM IST
When I was bestowed the honour of tossing the coin for the 2009-10 Times Cricket Shield final between Tata Sports Club and Air India on March 27, memories flooded back of a tournament that has…
May 4, 2010, 8:13 PM IST
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Thanks to Raina’s ton, Team India looks in fine fettle
May 2, 2010, 10:45 PM IST
MS Dhoni’s Team India looked in fine fettle in its 14 run win against South Africa in the T20 World Cup on Sunday. That’s primarily because Suresh Raina played one of the finest innings by…
May 2, 2010, 10:45 PM IST
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IPL ghaplas replace live tweets and old bores
May 2, 2010, 3:07 AM IST
He who tweets, lasts? No chance. He scoots! ‘I tweet, therefore I am’ no longer holds true. Ghaplas galore have replaced tweets and bores. I have been a diehard Lalu fan ever since I watched…
May 2, 2010, 3:07 AM IST
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A new battle begins
May 1, 2010, 6:25 PM IST
St Lucia: The Indian team might have flown over the proverbial Seven Seas to arrive in beautiful St Lucia; it might have been trapped in a hazy, sleep-induced world in the clouds too, for well…
May 1, 2010, 6:25 PM IST
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Mark Modi’s Funeral Speech
April 28, 2010, 8:16 PM IST
Lalit Modi’s impassioned speech at the closing ceremony of IPL-3 was a hit. It was talked about as much as the missing billion-dollar WSG-MSM document, Shilpa Shetty’s missing name in the Rajasthan Royals stake, and…
April 28, 2010, 8:16 PM IST
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Bowling shuffle would have been more like it
April 26, 2010, 2:42 PM IST
Sachin Tendulkar’s arrangement of the batting order in Mumbai Indians’ chase of the Chennai Super Kings’ score of 168 in the IPL 3 final has been criticised by one and all. I think his bowling…
April 26, 2010, 2:42 PM IST
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IPL: The good, the bad and the ugly
April 24, 2010, 10:57 PM IST
For once, there won’t be a smile on Lalit Modi’s face when dusk begins its customary retreat into darkness. After all, when the umpires call play at tonight’s grand finale, it will not merely signal…
April 24, 2010, 10:57 PM IST
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Thoughts on Sachin’s birthday
April 24, 2010, 12:27 PM IST
Well a myriad of images pass through. Of a kid one rushed to watch at the Brabourne Stadium along with Times lensman Girish Dikshit when one was tipped off about his impending century in a…
April 24, 2010, 12:27 PM IST
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Samaranch a Collosus of the Olympic movement
April 22, 2010, 2:03 PM IST
We journalists in India haven’t been much exposed to the patriarch of the Olympic movement, Juan Antonio Samaranch, who passed away at the age of 89 on April 21. No one in the history of…
April 22, 2010, 2:03 PM IST
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My Fraud Died Young
April 21, 2010, 9:17 PM IST
CK Prahalad Is Dead. Long Live IPL Modi. Mercifully, the management guru passed away before he could grasp the full extent of the hostile takeover of his acclaimed theory.
April 21, 2010, 9:17 PM IST
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IPL Blame Game
April 21, 2010, 4:50 PM IST
If IPL spells eyeballs then the IPL scandal kicked off by Lalit Modi and Shashi Tharoor means much more. Allegations and counter-allegations, analysis and counter-arguments fly back and forth since Shashi’s “maiden-over” took Modi’s Kochi…
April 21, 2010, 4:50 PM IST
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Don’t let your virtuosity run away with you
April 21, 2010, 2:37 PM IST
A golden rule of life is: Do not let your virtuosity run away with you. This applies on and off the field. Off the field it applies to Lalit Modi and Shashi Tharoor. Modi had…
April 21, 2010, 2:37 PM IST
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Boycott, not ban
April 20, 2010, 8:55 PM IST
Who’s going to clean-up the IPL mess? That’s the 64 million (or should that be 640 million?) dollar question. Just how monied and, messy, it is can be gauged by the fact that, over the…
April 20, 2010, 8:55 PM IST
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They have both fallen, but from different heights…
April 20, 2010, 11:07 AM IST
For someone who four years ago nurtured ambitions to be the UN Secretary General, Shashi Tharoor’s fall has been sadly disgraceful. But he asked for it of course. To be caught in a sweet-heart deal…
April 20, 2010, 11:07 AM IST
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Indian Political League
April 20, 2010, 9:52 AM IST
Poets, vain men in their moods,Travel with the multitude,Never heed them, I averThat they are all wanton wooers Wordsworth There is a more primeval and prominent league. We all missed it. Self-appointed, self-regulated, unwillingly…
April 20, 2010, 9:52 AM IST
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Giving the devil (read DYP) his due
April 19, 2010, 8:26 PM IST
Whenever I visited the DY Patil Stadium in its nascent days I used to wonder for who was this stadium being built on the outskirts of Mumbai in Nerul. Who would ever play there? There…
April 19, 2010, 8:26 PM IST
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A Gravy Train Called the IPL
April 18, 2010, 5:21 PM IST
The can is rattling and the worms can barely conceal their glee. Slithering out one at a time on a daily basis, they give us fresh insight into the phenomenon called the IPL. By all…
April 18, 2010, 5:21 PM IST
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It’s not so Tweet anymore
April 18, 2010, 2:29 AM IST
Just a couple of weeks ago, the Indian Premier League seemed nothing more than a Laughs, Sixes and Dhoka extravaganza; now, with barely a few days left for the curtain to go down, it has…
April 18, 2010, 2:29 AM IST
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Lalit Modi: the man who saw tomorrow
April 17, 2010, 11:22 PM IST
Just a week ago, Lalit Modi was the man in the news. Now, after taking on minister of state Shahish Tharoor over the Kochi franchise, he is making the news for all the wrong reasons. As the plot thickens, Crest-TOI profiles the cornered IPL commissioner
April 17, 2010, 11:22 PM IST
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