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Akshay Manwani
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Location : New Delhi
About Me :
Electronics professional by day and cricket blogger by night. That’s me in a nutshell. Cricket always remained the only recourse to nirvana and when one got the chance to blog on the subject, it was akin to getting a ‘free hit’. Moreover, there was the overwhelming need to live up to me mum’s expectation of furthering Salman Rushdie’s literary legacy. Now that’s what I call killing two birds with one stone.
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Apr 27th, 2009 
I've seen this happen several times before and yet never quite understood it. Cricket is a game that is played between two opposing sides, where generally the side that executes better on the day ends ...
Apr 23rd, 2009 
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar – the name that elicits genuine admiration and awe the world over. ...
Apr 15th, 2009 
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In my last blog on this forum (http://cricketblog.aol.in/2009/04/14/ipl-preview-1/ ), I had previewed the chances of the Punjab Kings XI, the Delhi Daredevils, and the Rajasthan Royals in the upcoming ...
Apr 14th, 2009 Listed under: 
The IPL in its second edition shall kickoff in less than a week in South Africa. Eight teams shall traverse the length and breadth of this vibrant nation to do battle with bat and ball. ...
Apr 7th, 2009 Listed under: 
Yuvraj Singh could well be facing a quarter life crisis. For at 27 years and 115 days old, Yuvraj is having to play a constant game of catch with the promise he had shown in the early days of his ...
Mar 24th, 2009 
The port city of Napier in New Zealand plays home to nearly 60,000 people from different ethnic backgrounds. It is a major tourist attraction as it boasts of the statue of the Pania of the Reef, a 1.5 ...
Mar 23rd, 2009 
"To make a business decision, you don't need much philosophy; all you need is greed, and maybe a little knowledge of how the game works." - Bill Watterson. ...
Mar 17th, 2009 Listed under: 
Believe it or not – but the last time India won a test in New Zealand, most of us weren't even born. It was the 1975-1976 series and in complete contrast to the Australian or West Indian way of ...
Mar 2nd, 2009 Listed under: 
In one of my recent blogs on this forum (http://cricketblog.aol.in/2009/01/24/cricket-and-the-need-for-comparison/), I had vented my ire on the infatuation of the cricketing cognoscenti to indulge in ...
Feb 24th, 2009 
In a couple of days, two eagerly awaited tours shall begin for cricket fans across the world. India will be returning to New Zealand after six long years, hoping to exorcise the ghosts of the last ...
Feb 9th, 2009 
India's defeat in the last game of the one-day series may have been a bit of a dampener, but in all fairness, Sri Lanka were convincingly outplayed in the previous four matches to hand the Men in Blue ...
Feb 6th, 2009 Listed under: 
The line is often a blur. The line that separates the game's legends from those next in line. What puts a Adam Gilchrist or a Malcolm Marshall in a league of their own – is a question yet to be ...
Jan 24th, 2009 Listed under: 
One of the quirks that seems intrinsic to the game of cricket is the overwhelming need on the part of its patrons to create a hierarchy of sorts amongst its finest exponents. ...
Jan 14th, 2009 
"There's players who play the game. There's players who absolutely love the game" said Doc Rivers – coach of the Boston Celtics, in appreciation of Paul Pierce – after the latter had put ...
Dec 31st, 2008 
Somewhere a little after the crack of dawn yesterday in India, South Africa ushered in a new era in world cricket. ...
Dec 26th, 2008 
2008 was a good year for Indian cricket. We were able to beat the best team in the world in two different formats of the game. ...
Dec 22nd, 2008 Listed under: 
It's been a heady last week. First, the Indians got the better of England in a nerve-wracking fourth-innings chase, and just Sunday the South Africans came up from behind to inflict a crushing defeat ...
Dec 9th, 2008 Listed under: 
For quite some time now, I have increasingly found myself having to defend the hallowed space that cricket enjoys amongst a variety of sports on offer. ...
Nov 26th, 2008 
So far it's been a no show. The English have been outclassed. It's not as if Ladbrokes had given KP's lads great odds for beating the Indians in India, but there must be a fair bit of disappointment ...
Nov 21st, 2008 Listed under: 
With the wicket of Owais Shah in the ODI at Kanpur, Harbjajan Singh reached the milestone of 200 wickets in one-day-international cricket. ...
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