It is common knowledge that Ms. Sunanda Pushkar, who is a friend of ex-Minister of State Mr. Shashi Tharoor, has let go of her sweat equity in the Kochi IPL team. In fact she is pursuing the matter legally in consultation with a Dubai based Indian Lawyer.

While all this storm is brewing in good old Dubai, there seems to be another one let loose by someone on Facebook posing as the Lady in the eye of the storm.

It seems the folks at The Times of India found it interesting to publish some of the updates from this Sunanda’s supposed Facebook profile without even trying to validate the profile!

From the status update excerpts that I read in the article, there are so many grammatical mistakes (this excludes the short hand net lingo that we all use). Since this is a lady working at some company called Dubai Holding at a senior consulting position, it is only fair to assume she understands the queen’s language (and even speaks it well).

Not to mention the fact that Sunanda Pushkar is very particular about her privacy.

Not responsible journalism at all. I hope the people with the pen behave more responsibly rather than reproducing some impersonator’s rants in their articles that only gives legitimacy to the wrong person and in a way defames the person in question.

An exclusive teaser of the forthcoming Harman Baweja starrer, Victory, which will feature prominent cricketers both from the past and the present.

The most notable of them is Australian cricketer, Brett Lee. Incidently, Brett Lee is going to be making his motion picture debut with this movie.

It seems all the cricket’s mighty men belonging to the Indian Cricket Team are dreaming of T20 cricket even when they are all strapped up and facing those balls in a test match.

After SriLanka scored 600 runs and declared in a test match interrupted by frequent showers, India were tattering at 159/6 with VVS Laxman and night watchman captain Anil Kumble at the crease.

It is really shocking to see the mighty batsmen fall so quickly without any resistance. Kudos to the Lanka team for hounding the Indian team into submission. Then there’s a 90% chance of a follow on for India. A miraculous rescue by VVS Laxman and Anil Kumble is our only chance against the Lankans… Otherwise pray to God to let the rain fall down. It’s the only other way to save our faces.

Disappointing show by India, excellent work by the SriLankans.

Well, I was kinda tweaking the blog today to checkout various plugins and their effects on the site and then was checking India’s score versus Srilanka on Cricinfo.com when I found out about widgets introduced by Cricinfo.com for site & blog owners to include scores, images and more from their vast database.

So, I went ahead and got the embedding code for the International Scores Widget to include it in the sidebar of my blog. Cricket enthusiasts will now be able to check the scores of their favorite matches without even leaving my blog!

Cricinfo.com is a big website of vast properties related to Cricket. It was previously owned by Wisden Group before being purchased by ESPN.

ESPN on the net

Cricinfo on the net

Well, here’s a great piece of article by Mukesh Kesavan at Cricinfo.com who firmly believes and even prays that the Indian Premier League with it’s version of Cricket (Read Twenty20 Cricket) will fail so that it doesn’t cast a shadow on the real thing: Test Cricket. Well, his article is really thought provoking since T20 Cricket has most certainly made a mockery of Cricket by projecting it as a pure batsman oriented game rather than one where a batsman and a bowler hold equal position of influence and power. Thought provoking, indeed.

My suggestion to the IPL management: Why not have a 50 overs tournament rather than 20 overs, to give the bowlers a fair chance as well?

Oh my God, It’s gonna rain stars and cricket this summer, if this is anything to go by. Have a look at our man Shahrukh Khan shaking his money maker in this video for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Ye!!!! Go KRs Go….

A great video showing Punjab in all it’s color and valor and fervor and it’s desi feel. Daler Mehendi sings for King’s XI Punjab Indian Premier League team of Mohali.

You must watch it a great treat it is.

Watch Shahrukh Khan’s IPL Team, The Kolkata Knight Riders show some attitude in this great promo video.

Click here to watch the Kolkata Knight Riders Promo Video.

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Gary Kirsten (visit his profile on Cricinfo) has agreed to coach India. Good news. Well let’s hope he brings more enthusiasm into our team and leads the boys for a good period of time. India is without a coach since Greg Chappell stepped down. Although we do have a bowling coach in Venkatesh Prasad and a fielding coach in Robin Singh, India is still without a coach.

Well, my opinion is that India has improved while they were playing without one! I don’t know if you noticed this or not, but the media is at peace with the current situation (although the situation isn’t that good) where our team’s without a coach and has lost as well as won several matches. This time we didn’t get to hear the usual bashing from the media regarding the team’s performance.

Yes. This is the truth. Gary may be a very good player and turn out to be another Bob Woolmer (read: a great coach) for India (Inshallah), but the truth is that the media has got it’s knives ready. As soon as we land in Australia for the tour, all the media will be focusing on the series since by then India will be with a coach. And if, God Forbid, we loose, then you will see nice headlines in the newspapers telling you that it was all Gary’s fault.

As for the bowling coach and the fielding coach, I don’t know what to say. India’s fielding hasn’t been that good as far as I can think of. Bowling has improved but not what you would have expected say from a specialist bowling coach like Prasad.

Let’s hope for the best in the end, I guess. After all that’s what we all have been doing since long. Haven’t we guys and gals?

After a long wait, finally the Indian Cricket team has got a coach in Gary Kirsten. The former South African opener who retired in 2004 is expected to join the team on December 3. It is good to know that some one of his stature has agreed to coach our team which has been without a coach since Greg Chappell vacated the position after India’s humiliating exit from the ICC World Cup 2007 .

Anyway, all the best to Gary and our men in blue.