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Thursday, May 7, 2009

The fall and fall of Kolkata knights

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Given a choice, Shah Rukh would change the script. He did everything right to grab eyeballs and generate hype around his Kolkata Knight Riders.

Beyond that, everything that had to go wrong, did. Maybe that's why he's said on his blog: "The way to victory does not lie in how hard you can hit; but how hard you can take the hit." What went wrong with this multi-starred venture featuring one of the biggest names in Bollywood, India's most successful captain and the coach with the most enviable CV in internationa1 cricket?

That its players have become non-performing assets is clear - look no further than the catches dropped in the last two matches. "What can a coach or captain do if the team drops so many catches?" asked team CEO Joy Bhattacharya.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Indian Premier League opened to big viewership but didn't stick

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The Indian Premier League, hit by security concerns that took its venue to South Africa in its second season, had a thumping start on Set Max television channel last Saturday, with a big jump in overall reach.

However, average viewership ratings dropped for both matches that day compared with last year's ratings. In other words, more people tuned in, but fewer among them stayed on to watch the ties.

According to aMap (from Audience Measurement Analytics Ltd.), the overnight television audience measurement system, almost 7 million viewers (12.6 per cent, top six metros, age 4+) tuned into the first match, considerably higher than last year's 5.6 million viewers (11.9 per cent).

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Smacked out of India, Indian Premier League may land in England or South Africa

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After weeks of lobbying to browbeat the government, the Indian Premier League took the logical option of moving its second season out of the country .

The Hindustan Times had reported on Sunday that the IPL had decided to shift base out of India.

The decision to move the T20 tournament was taken at an emergency meeting of the BCCI working committee in Mumbai.

The firming up of the new venue is expected on Monday , with South Africa and England emerging as the two front runners.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Skipper Dhoni may skip Lanka Test

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni could be the first Indian cricketer to pull out of a tour citing fatigue. The India ODI skipper, it was learnt late on Monday, had conveyed this to the BCCI.

Earlier, asked whether he would opt out of the Sri Lanka tour, where the first of the three-Test series begins on July 23, Dhoni said: "You will get to know it in the next couple of days."

Make what you will of that but remember Dhoni had a similar answer to the question after India were annihilated by Sri Lanka in Sunday's Asia Cup final in Karachi. Also remember that he had, during the Asia Cup, raised the issue of international cricket's gruelling schedule.

On Monday, he also appreciated an earlier statement from the BCCI that a player could rest when he felt the need for it. "In the sub-continent we have a full year of cricket and there's no off-season. It's tough for cricketers. When we want rest we should get it," he said. "The BCCI has said we can take rest whenever we want which, I think, is a very good policy" he said.

The birthday boy - he turned 27 on Monday said he was "100 per cent ht". Playing non-stop since India's ODI series against South Africa in June 2007, it is possible that Dhoni would opt out of the Tests and take over for the five ODIs, beginning August 18.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Kirsten set to be next coach

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FORMER South Africa opener Gary Kirsten is set to take over as India's next coach later this winter, over seven months after Greg Chappell left the post.

Kirsten, who secretly met top BCCI officials, the coach selection panel (comprising former cap tains Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and S. Venkataraghavan) and Test skipper Anil Kumble on Monday night in New Delhi, has been offered a two-year contract. "We have offered him a copy of the contract," said BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty "He . will let us know whether he's joining us or not latest by December 3." The South African seemed quite comfortable with the way things had worked out. "The inter view went well, but I haven't signed anything yet," said Kirsten.

HIS SCORECARD ¦ The former South African opener has played 101 Tests and 185 ODIs. He made his debut against Australia in Melbourne in 1993. He has a Test average of 45.27 and an aggregate of 7,289 runs. ¦ He was South Africa's batting coach after his retirement in 2004...
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