Twenty20 world cup cricket championship – India makes history

Who could ever have thought of an Indo-Pak final in the inaugural twenty20 world cup cricket championship even as late as, say, a week before the D-date? Considering their form few would have given them a chance beyond the super 8 stage.

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Dhoni is elevated to keep Saurav out

Much to the delight of the people of Jharkhand Mahandra Singh Dhoni has been elevated to the post of India’s cricket team’s captain for the coming one-day internationals. Ranchi is the birthplace of this pin-up boy of Indian cricket. Hence the people of Ranchi has special reasons to be doubly happy and even prouder. The 26 year old wicket-keeper batsman is the first from the state of Jharkhand to captain the Indian cricket team.

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Sethu Samudram – Sonia saves the congress

Sonia Gandhi, the cementing force of the UPA government, proved her metal at a time what may be treated as the, “hour of crisis” for the Manmohan Singh’s government at the center. It was her timely intervention in the Sethu Samudram affidavit case that perhaps saved the nation from experiencing another nightmarish period like the one seen during the post Babri Masjid demolition days.

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New Look Indian Team

No one knows for sure whether twenty-20 cricket has come to stay, whether it will flourish like one day cricket and force test cricket and one day cricket to take the back seat. No body knows either what will be the capacity of a batsman or a bowler in terms of scoring runs or taking wickets in this form of cricket?

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Dravid – A negative captain?

The debate whether India should have enforced the follow on in the third and final test at oval will go on for some time to come. That the Indian captain could not muster enough courage to ask England to continue batting after the home team finished it’s first innings 319 runs behind, raised a Furrore in the cricketing world. Great cricketers like Kapil Dev and Sandeep Patil condemned the decision in the strongest words and turned the move as “negative approach”.

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Police Barbarism – Police becomes law breakers

Bhagalpur is in the news again, and again for wrong reasons. The Bihar district, which has already had earned a bad name for police atrocities, is once again in the headlines for the same reasons. The sick district has a long history of heinous crimes and equally brutal way of “awarding” punishment to the criminals not by the court of law but by the police officials themselves.

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