After India looks set to lose eight consecutive test matches on overseas pitches, BCCI has decided to take corrective measures. The Indian cricket board has decided that the teams will carry their own pitches on foreign tours. BCCI President has argued that when team could carry their own batting kits, coach, fitness trainer, etc., why can’t they carry their own pitches? Other boards too have agreed to the proposal.
January 25, 2012 | Filed under
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Keeping in mind the absurd performance by their respective teams, cricket officials from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have decided upon having one team from the sub-continent going by the name “East Indies”. The team will consist of the best players from all the four nations, to give the Ausssies and the Proteas and the English a run for their money in the test-matches.
January 15, 2012 | Filed under
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YouTube has announced a new category of videos – Tragedy – after it found out that many users had been uploading video clips of the Indian innings in Australia in the existing “Comedy” category. The content team of YouTube, consisting mostly of Americans, failed to see any humor in Indian batsmen getting out cheaply. However, after seeing the scorecard, they concluded that the scenes were tragic in nature.
January 13, 2012 | Filed under
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Ravi Kapoor, a cricket fan who has broken his resolve of not watching cricket 230 times since his school days, has jumbled up the television channels stored on his television set so that he misses the live telecast of Perth test tomorrow morning. Ravi had woken up early in the mornings to watch live telecast of the last two test matches, and was disappointed on every day.
January 12, 2012 | Filed under
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Prashant Gupta, a diehard fan of Sachin Tendulkar, has decided not to take bath so that the master blaster is able to score his 100th international century. Prashant took this step after he realized that there was a positive correlation between his bathing and Sachin’s centuries. He claims that he had not taken bath for full five days when Sachin had scored his last test century, exactly a year ago.
January 4, 2012 | Filed under
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The Bajaj RE60 Third Umpire Signal consists of the umpire drawing a RE60-like box in air while holding up special laser lights. Following a contentious run-out or stumping, an image of Bajaj RE60 will be visible for a few seconds with the laser. This is the first exclusive in-game branding deal for the 5th edition of the IPL, auctions for which go live next month.
January 4, 2012 | Filed under
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In a move that can motivate Sachin Tendulkar no end, Congress leader Digvijay Singh has offered to go on a ‘maun vrat’ for 10 successive days if the master blaster scored his 100th international century in the Boxing Day test match in Australia. The moment Sachin completes his 100th run Diggi Raja will stop speaking, and will open his mouth only after full 240 hours.
December 24, 2011 | Filed under
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Responding to an appeal signed by bowlers of various nationalities, ICC has allowed use of performance enhancing drugs by bowlers when bowling to Virender Sehwag. The governing body of cricket thought that it was in the interest of fairness and justice that the bowlers were given a level playing field when playing against Sehwag, else cricket could degenerate into a Sehwag’s game from a batsman’s game.
December 10, 2011 | Filed under
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IT experts have claimed that thousands of blog posts and articles by various writers continued to remain in the “drafts” folder as Sachin Tendulkar missed scoring his 100th international century at Wankhede. While this is not yet causing major strains on the IT resources of various organizations, expert believe that content management could become really tough if Sachin delays his century by a few months more.
November 25, 2011 | Filed under
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Concerned over the fact that cricket stadiums are largely empty and fans prefer to follow the game over television or internet, ICC is working on a technology that will create digital avatars of fans and put those virtual bodies in the stadium seats. These ‘avatars’ will act almost like real human beings and will assure the cricketers sweating out in the middle that their hard work is being appreciated.
November 23, 2011 | Filed under
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