Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jan 31, 2012, 1:41 pm
Location: A room full of neutral observers sitting in a prickinfo studio analysing India’s defeat in Australia with a Not Cricket reporter disguised as Poonam Paan de. (It was very difficult to get in because the reporter wasn’t ugly enough but when threatened...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jan 19, 2012, 12:25 pm
The former great was a bitter man. The joke went at the CCI that bar tenders asked him to stick his fingers in a cocktail if they had run out of bitters. But it could all have been so different. His entire career would have meant something if only he...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Oct 18, 2011, 8:48 pm
Hi Abhinav, I just wanted to wish you all the best for tomorrow. As I have said to you before, I believe that your dedication and professionalism-the most important personality traits-leave you with nothing left to prove to anyone, including yourself...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Oct 12, 2011, 1:56 pm
I saw it 3 days back.. It is not a team sport. Look at Abhinav Mukund, Gautam Gambhir, Ojha, A Mithun, Irfan Pathan.. They are not playing for a team for god's sake Every one is playing for himself. Write back to me if they are'nt.....(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Sep 29, 2011, 2:22 pm
If selector Cheeka had really read the blogosphere seriously, he would have dropped himself from the selection committee and voted for Homer instead. But he chose to ignore the relevant stuff and read the fluffy stuff. The stuff that talks about Chanakya's...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Sep 19, 2011, 2:40 pm
The first meeting of the new look Indian selection committee is underway on an auspicious day and time per You Know Who’s astrologer with all selectors wearing yellow India Cement jerseys. The new selectors are supposed to take an oath of allegiance to...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Sep 6, 2011, 9:15 am
It has been reliably learnt that the De Montfort University in Leicester is revoking the ‘honorary’ doctorate conferred by it on MS Dhoni. The University which had praised Dhoni’s exemplary leadership qualities and his achievements before making him an...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Aug 16, 2011, 1:49 pm
When I see that out of the last 12 series that England has played, they have played 9 at home and 3 away. One was with Australia, where they won 3-1. One was with 'Bangladesh'. Which they actually won!! And one was with South Africa that they...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Aug 2, 2011, 2:52 pm
All Indian cricket fans are clamouring for Facebook to be renamed as Book since they have lost their ‘Face’ at Trentbridge. Mark Zuckerberg read all those messages, watched the low lights of the Indian batting and decided to rename Facebook as Shamefacedlook...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jul 26, 2011, 11:51 am
Once there was a boy named Harby Puttar Who came from the land of kama suttar he always wanted to be the wizard of Oz and in earnest he started without a pause to cut through them Ozs like molten buttar The Harry Potter saga, if ever is mutated with the...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jul 18, 2011, 2:00 pm
One goes to the cricket bloggers’ meet with a keen sense of anticipation mixed with a pinch of trepidation. The treasure chest of knowledge of the sport and the intense love for the game exhilarates and intimidates at the same time. Here are committed...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jul 11, 2011, 1:12 pm
A few after effects of the 3rd drawn Test Match in Dominica which NC foresees in the near future. MSD's new ad promoting Mountain Dew with a brand new tag line Duncan Fletcher receiving the 'Drawnacharya Award ' from Pratibha Patil One wanted...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jul 6, 2011, 2:22 pm
One was trying to search for the title of a post on the recent doping scandal that has hit Indian athletes and one was confused with the enormous number one could think of. It has indeed been a shameful week or so for Indian Athletics and all the positivity...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jul 4, 2011, 10:21 am
Most of us have read Aesop’s fables during our childhood which always had a moral at the end of the story. But in today’s modern world similar stories may have very different morals. Let’s take an example. The original tale goes like this - The Frog and...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jun 22, 2011, 1:16 pm
After hearing so much about the BCCI's supposed arrogance about UDRS matters from Swann, Tremlett and countless other experts on UDRS, one read this great article about the English FA. But before that lets talk about how its a win win situation for...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jun 19, 2011, 1:38 pm
19th June 2011 was a day of celebrations, literally. For most of the world it was Father’s Day, for those lucky farmers in UP, it was Kisan Adhikar Divas (Farmers’ Rights Day) as it also happened to be the birth day of one Rahul Gandhi. The problem that...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jun 14, 2011, 8:03 am
A team that lorded over all others a few decades back finds itself staring into complete and utter darkness. The oft mentioned cliché by optimists referring to ‘a ray at the end of the tunnel’ seems to have ceased to exist as well. And how has the team...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jun 8, 2011, 3:11 pm
Cricket- The Republic of India ICC - The government of India (currently The UPA) o See no evil, hear no evil, and don't utter a single word. BCCI - (at present) The Congress Party Success is theirs', failure is ICC's ineptness May have infighting...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - May 26, 2011, 2:24 pm
Scene 1 - The Mumbai Indians dressing room SRT – ‘Ok boys, we have got to win only 2 matches to win this IPL. My boys won the WC for me just about a month back. The same Virat who carried me on his shoulders on that day is today plotting my downfall....(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - May 12, 2011, 4:04 pm
Formula 1's most exciting news for few years was about the return of the King. He had left a void in the sport which other pretenders couldn't fill. Or so we thought. Schumi would turn back the ravages of time to emerge victorious as always. But...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Apr 27, 2011, 3:41 am
Name - Duncan Fletcher Nationality - ZIMBABWE Age - 62 years Qualifications I don't like lime nor do I like light. I have perfecrted the art of being a chameleon and can claim to be better at it than your outgoing coach. Most times my wife can't...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Apr 24, 2011, 1:53 am
India is a country with a lot of national holidays where holidays are defined as days on which the Indians officially don’t need to work. The variety of reasons for these national holidays vary from those with religious significance viz. Diwali, Xmas...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Apr 3, 2011, 10:07 am
The biggest road party that one has ever attended had already had a smaller cousin just a few days earlier. The victory against Pakistan had seen enormous traffic at Marine Drive with people seemingly taking hours to just cross that 3km stretch in a car...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Mar 27, 2011, 2:03 pm
All right. It's just a game!! The PM of one country calls the President of another to watch the match. Its supposedly called cricket diplomacy. Manmohan Singh it seems doesnt even really like the game. Yeah.. it's just another game. One believes...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Mar 24, 2011, 3:07 am
One was just reading about the 2 conditions required to achieve nuclear fusion. 1. High Temperature 2. High Pressure. One has thought of a cheap way to create nuclear fusion. Put the deuterium-tritium particles in one's head and then walk down in...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Mar 20, 2011, 1:45 pm
The reams of newsprint spent on discussing R Ashwin and his absence from the playing XI has reportedly eaten up a forest the size of Chennai. If clutching of straws was what the media was attempting, it was a spectacular success. One had heard the following...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Mar 14, 2011, 5:32 am
That Nagpur is fondly called the Orange city is well known. What most people don’t know is that the VCA stadium is not-so-fondly called the no-range stadium. There is no net connectivity which meant that all one’s followers (to be honest mostly spam bots...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Mar 8, 2011, 1:42 pm
With all the talk of technolgy used in sport the Pakistan Cricket team thought that they too would utilise some technological innovations to provide a boost to their efforts of winning the CWC. But alas, as we have witnessed with UDRS their experiment...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Feb 27, 2011, 2:20 pm
It seems more like getting a flat tier at the start of your journey.....(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Feb 22, 2011, 12:20 am
Alvin Toffler rose to fame by predicting how the world would be in the distant future by writing the path breaking Future Shock and The Third Wave. He is not to be confused with the Alvin in Alvin and the Chipmunks who is more popular now days. He had...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Feb 8, 2011, 12:41 am
Our intelligent readers have to choose one of the following news items as a true story. All others are fantasies and imaginations that are fuelled after watching all those news channels. Sourav Ganguly set to be India coach after Kirsten's departure...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Feb 4, 2011, 3:05 am
The frenzy of 'let's do it for Sachin' has reached unimaginable levels with all Sachin's team mates also joining the bandwagon. One is very sure that every time Yusuf Pathan goes in to bat with 100 required off 35 balls, he would be thinking...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jan 26, 2011, 9:23 pm
The one big difference between Cricket and Tennis is not only the equipment used or the rules of the games but the post match interviews. Tennis journos seem to possess an EQ and IQ that is lower than their cricketing counterparts (as if that were possible...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jan 17, 2011, 6:55 am
The head of the BCCI selection committee is a man unlike any other. There are numerous alleged methods of selection employed by the man ranging from passing the parcel to 'I love him, I love him not' variety. One feels that here is a man most...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jan 13, 2011, 1:00 pm
A young boy is tied to a chair in an empty warehouse. A spot light is glaring at him while all other occupants are standing in the shadows. He is surrounded by 3-4 hefty fellows, a couple of Mona darlings (the villain Loin’s side kick for the Hindi movie...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jan 6, 2011, 12:56 pm
There are some inspirational moments in a person's life when (s)/he utters words of wisdom that even (s)he doesn't foresee the significance of and what that powerful concoction of words, pretty harmless in their individuality, can lead to. Many...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Jan 3, 2011, 11:54 am
My dream for 2014 We win the football WC 2014 because we have Rooney, Terry, Cole etc etc.... We win the ODI WC in 2011 because we have KP, and ummm... dunno but have enough.. yes!! we have swann as well.. We will become the #1 in ICC Test rankings because...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Dec 30, 2010, 12:57 am
The sight of Jacques Kallis jumping in the air like a startled black buck and tamely fending off a snorter will forever be etched in one's mind and will be THE memory of the Durban Test. India smelled victory there and then and stuck to their task...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Dec 24, 2010, 1:51 am
He walked to the middle of the pitch with trepidation. His heartbeat was competing with Dale Steyn’s speed, his mind felt numb like Harbhajan’s and his walk to the middle was as slow as Unadakat’s ball. He had let his team down on too many occasions and...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Dec 14, 2010, 4:55 am
I played Badminton. Competitive one at that. I understood what was the difference between me and the national level players. It was a stretch. Even the state level players were far better than me. And I admired them. The kind of shuttle control and the...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Dec 8, 2010, 7:48 am
There used to be a pretty funny Maharashtra Rajya Lottery ad in the bygone DD monopoly era. The announcer on the stage would take out a chit and say, “Number 7!!!!” A chap from the audience would stand up and shout with unadulterated joy, “Arre mein jeet...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Dec 7, 2010, 1:40 am
Most people tend to overlook the real heroes and the differentiating factors behind sporting successes. It is mostly the players who get the adulation or the flak depending on the final outcome. These unsung heroes, never the receivers of glowing public...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Nov 30, 2010, 1:19 pm
With all these leaks happening in our world today and all the ‘gates’ money (Adarsh Gate, 2G Gate) making much more money than gate collections at most Test centres in the world and maybe even more than Bill from Microsoft, who may earn a bit less daily...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Nov 26, 2010, 1:52 pm
It seems Ponting was booed when he came into bat at Brisbane in the 1st innings.. Booed by the Barmy Army in his own country. Now pardon my ignorance but didn't the entire media scream their guts out and sing praises of his illustrious career when...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Nov 22, 2010, 11:31 pm
In the epic Mahabharata, Arjuna is described as the best archer of his day. There is a very nice story highlighting his powers of concentration. Guru Dronacharya, who was the royal tutor, taught the princes (Pandavas and Kauaravas) the art of warfare...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Nov 15, 2010, 4:23 am
One is really wondering what Rahul Dravid is eating/drinking/smoking these days. One can appreciate the fact that he was extremely disappointed with his 45 off 144 in the first innings of the second Test against New Zealand. 45 was 20 too many. The captain...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Nov 11, 2010, 8:36 am
A brilliant write up on a man who never hogged the lime light and was always the bridesmaid but never the bride. The observations on his so called copybook technique are spot on whereas some observations and predictions about Dravid's career's...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Oct 27, 2010, 1:19 pm
It was not what was said that rankled but it was the way it was defended that got my goat . This is not about cricket at all. This is not about any sport. Some times there are circumstances that transcend sport.They become a matter of existence. And one...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Oct 21, 2010, 10:42 pm
The extreme reaction of the Indian cricket fan to the slings and arrows of their team's fortunes has been a pet topic on this blog. One has always reasoned to be gracious in defeat and even more gracious in victory. The Indian TRP crazed media on...(read more)
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Namya Ramjoshi posted an article on Not Cricket - Oct 18, 2010, 10:19 am
It looked like we had covered every possible cultural misunderstanding between India and Australia during the 2008 series. But seems that we were mistaken. The Indians are far too sensitive and frown at one other thing which normal boys across the world...(read more)
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