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APRIL 02, 2011
Politicians create an inconvenient truth
: Here's the most definite 'learning' from this World Cup: lets keep the heads of government and state away from it
The semi-final was attended by two prime ministers; the final had two presidents in attendance © AFP
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MARCH 27, 2011
The grandmother of all headaches
: News flash: The Indian and Pakistani cricketers are not having bun-fights over breakfast
MARCH 27, 2011
In the other camp
: Two South African journalists travelled on the diverted flight that went to Dhaka to fetch the New Zealand cricket team and carry them to Colombo
MARCH 24, 2011
Motera, trapped in a time warp
: If the World Cup is to be a roll call of some of India's leading venues across the country, then the ones lurking at the bottom of the pile should be Delhi (for administrative inefficiency) and Ahmedabad for a startling shabbiness
MARCH 11, 2011
Nagpur is more than just oranges and cricket
: Nagpur gets a lot of bad press particularly when cricket comes to town – the stadium's too far, transport is over-priced, there aren't enough hotels around for an event the size of the World Cup, the restaurants are average, the bars are minimum
MARCH 10, 2011
Klusener's favourite knock
: Lance Klusener always preferred doing his talking with the bat
MARCH 09, 2011
The last revolutionary standing
: “We knew we were all going to die,” he says, casually.
MARCH 09, 2011
The Dutch go back to school
: A polite request arrived from the ICC a couple of days ago: would I like to join Ryan ten Doeschate and Atse Buurman, the Netherlands’ players, on a visit to one of the government-run schools as part of a drive to encourage education through reading
MARCH 05, 2011
Fans' flowers can't mask the bigger picture
: As promised last night, hundreds of Bangladeshis gathered outside the team hotel in Dhaka on Saturday to apologise to the cricketers for the actions of some “fans” – for want of a better word
MARCH 05, 2011
Small-town South Africa in India
: This week was the first time that I travelled on a train
MARCH 02, 2011
Luxury in Bangalore with England in store
: The opening game against Bangladesh last Friday was my 100th for Ireland in all competitions, and I should really have been celebrating a win
FEBRUARY 26, 2011
Firefighting at the KSCA
: The Chinnaswamy Stadium, on the day before the World Cup, looked exactly like what most Indian grounds look like 24 hours before a big game
FEBRUARY 26, 2011
A light in Delhi's darkness
: It’s not often that a person’s name represents what they actually are
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