It was simply superb to see the Indian cricket team beat Australia today.
Not only was this fantastic because it happened at Perth, where the Aussies have always dominated visiting teams, but also because we wrapped up the match in four days !! Can’t recall when we last did this.

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Shaun Pollock, one of the world’s best all-rounders and certainly South Africa’s best, finally hung up his cricketing boots as South Africa beat the West Indies in the recently concluded Test series.

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Happened to read that Steve Bucknor, one of the architects of India’s defeat to Australia in the Sydney Test, is disappointed that he was chucked out of the series for giving “only” 2 wrong decisions out of some 35 appeals made in that Test match.

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Sony and the World Sports Group (WSG) have snared the broadcasting rights for the Indian Premier League (IPL) for $1.03 billion (around Rs.4,000 crore) for a 10 year period, which includes $108 million for compulsory promotional spends. They beat ESPN-Star Sports and NDTV.

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All narcissists now have a reason to rejoice !!
The folks at the Indian postal department are thinking of introducing personalised postage stamps bearing photographs of people at standard domestic postal rates.

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