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The ball tampering saga – not for the first or last time!

A young cricketer rubs some sand on the ball and the whole world goes berserk using words like SHAME, CHEAT and sundry to describe not just the player but his entire team and management. In no sport, other than cricket, does a ball become of such paramount importance almost sacred in a sense that “touching it inappropriately 😉” can lead to punishment. However, in the chaos created mostly by Australia haters apart from cricket lovers and media (who came up with Sandgate???), the core concept of justice may as well be forgotten one more time. As I write this, Steve Smith (Commander-in-chief -Sandgate), Cameron Bancroft (Executioner – Sandgate) and David Warner (Mastermind – Sandgate) have been banned for 9 months to one year. Smith and Warner have been stripped of Captaincy and Vice-Captaincy of Australia respectively and of the captaincy of the IPL franchisees and also banned from IPL altogether. Some have described this as a very harsh punishment and some have called for a li
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Leap of faith

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The leap of faith. That makes chokers, winners. Well done QD. Well done SA.
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Paras and Smit bowling action

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Here are a couple of animations of quickies in action...
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Animated Celebration

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Minal Vakharia blasts off a celebratory cracker to mark the beginning of 2nd day of GRPL.
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BASH XI - On the move

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Here is a picture of our team Bash XI playing in the GRPL. Its an animated GIF. Click on the pic to see the actual size.
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THE IPL-GATE – from the eyes of a Commoner

For any cricket lover, the last 10 days have been full of mixed emotions to say the least. I still remember a panicking Swathi (my wife) calling me at noon to inform me that the RR Trio had been caught spot fixing. And since then it has been a parade of arrests including the mighty ‘Guru’. There has been media frenzy with 24/7 channels airing the same news over and over, and as Milind Rege rightly put it on one of the TV shows I participated in as a caller, “the common man will now tend to see all cricket with jaundiced eyes”. On the other hand unnoticeably England and New Zealand have been indulging in some good old test cricket which has been long forgotten in this country called India and Rahul Dravid has been carrying the torch of Integrity and Class, albeit all alone. We have had experts from all fields, talking about IPL saga from legal, criminal, economical, moral, ethical, sporting and governance points of view. So what does a common man (or woman) think of all these. Becau
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Cinemagraph 3

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Another Cinemagraph... No ad affiliation though... Just used the first bottle available.....
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