Asian Lite News Archive

Category: JUST SPORT

  • Dhoni is well prepared for media scrutiny

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    By Veturi Srivatsa  Mahendra Singh Dhoni is always a step ahead of the Indian media. He is not the sort who would habitually say when the team loses that they batted badly, bowled poorly and fielded atrociously! Like a good general he, by and large, defends his forces. He anticipates the questions likely to be…

  • BCCI a superpower with feudal mindset

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    By Veturi Srivatsa  The Indian cricket board is bothered about its image more than the development of the sport or the promotion of players. It wants to project itself as a modern cricket power with a feudal mindset. If the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) thinks it is modern and a superpower,…

  • Rohit’s love affair with Eden

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    By Debdoot Das  As Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma held the Indian Premier League (IPL) trophy aloft on a Sunday night sky filled with fireworks, one could very well fathom from the roar of the crowd the undeniable love that one of the world’s most iconic venues has for this man. Eden Gardens has never…

  • India’s sports atmosphere is getting vitiated

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    By Veturi Srivatsa  Indian sport is in an unfathomable churn, if not in total mess. The cricket board officials are in cyclic hostility and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is in an internecine war of its own with most national federations in a moribund state. A noteworthy coincidence, brothers Narayanaswamy Srinivasan and Ramachandran have worked…

  • Ganguly always got it right

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    By Veturi Srivatsa  India’s first cricket captain to win back-to-back series in the West Indies and England, Ajit Wadekar was called lucky. Sourav Ganguly, the other captain who gave the team confidence of winning overseas, is also lucky in a different way. Just as the knowledgeable think that Wadekar was lucky to inherit a top-rate…

  • Dalmiya doesn’t seem too interested in board’s affairs

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    By Veturi Srivatsa  Jagmohan Dalmiya has seen it all. Pushing 75, the comeback man of the Indian cricket board now has little aspiration or drive to grapple with issues confronting the game. Circumstances conspired to put him in the saddle a decade after he was unceremoniously booted out by his detractors. It is a different…

  • Cricket fans have grown up

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    By Veturi Srivatsa All the talk of heart and mind on the eve of the India-Australia semifinal was nothing but an expression of the lurking fear that Mahendra Singh Dhoni will, after all, not be returning with the cricket World Cup he had won four years ago. Dhoni thus lost the opportunity of defending the…

  • What a comeback by Team India!

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    By Veturi Srivatsa  Where does one put one’s finger on for India staying unbeaten, winning all their five Pool B matches in the World Cup? For once, answers are easy. The major achievement is that the Indians bowled the opposition out in all matches with all-round performances. The batsmen gave enough for the bowlers to…

  • Veturi Srivatsa column on Acche Din for Sport

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    Veturi Srivatsa says sportspersons should at least see acche din!  Most well to do sportspersons complain of the lack of state patronage and insist they got to the top on their own. It is not all true, even those who can afford a holiday in the Swiss Alps are not graceful to acknowledge the amount…

  • India need 20-20 vision to win Test

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    Veturi Srivatsa says Indian players should have 20-20 vision of Test cricket  Ask any player anywhere in the world and he will say Test cricket is the ultimate. But today – though he may not openly admit it – he knows in his heart that his Twenty20 performance is far more important. It may sound…

  • Global Cricket and Indian Money

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    Veturi Srivatsa looks in to the power of Indian money in global cricket  It is immaterial whether they lose the five-Test series at the Oval 1-3, 1-2, or tie 2-2, India will still return to England to play another five-match series four years from now. That’s the power of Indian money in global cricket. It is…

  • Veturi Srivatsa on Anderson episode

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    Veturi Srivatsa is his weekly column asking Is Anderson’s foul language a part of the game?  Humour has no barrier, so long as certain unparliamentary words are uttered in jest. When a Test cricketer unleashes a barrage of invectives against an opponent when they were leaving the field after a hard session, it is not…

  • The relevance of C’Wealth Games

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    Veturi Srivatsa is his column Just Sport is asking what purpose the Games serve when the world’s top athletes do not take them seriously What is the relevance of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) in the 21st century? This question pops up every four years, more so in the last two decades. The Games are invariably held in British…

  • CRICKET: Lessons to learn from India

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    Veturi Srivatsa says Indians taught Englishmen how to play in their backyard  India’s handsome victory at Lord’s would have come as a big relief to skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, leading a young side with almost the entire top-order batting playing in England for the first time. What must have pleased Dhoni’s team is that they…

  • Just Sport on Jadeja-Anderson spat

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    Veturi Srivatsa  in his weekly column analysing the Jadeja-Anderson spat. It is a test case for new chief Srinivasan  It is incongruous to find players from India and England standing eyeball-to-eyeball within a month of the expressed bonhomie of their board along with Cricket Australia in joining hands to rule World cricket. It is difficult to believe…

  • COMMENT: Indian cricket team in the UK

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    Veturi Srivatsa in his columns Just Sportsays Nobody can complain about unfamiliar conditions any more  Every time the Indian cricket team goes on a tour of England, the wailing about blustery conditions, green tops, on which only English bowlers seemed to get wickets for the asking, used to be a routine. Some used to add…

  • Can probe cleanse cricket?

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    Delhi-based Veturi Srivatsa looks into the recent scams and controversies erupted in Indian cricket for Asian Lite, top Asian newspaper for the Indian diaspora Probing betting, match and spot-fixing in cricket is turning out to be a mirage like bringing back black money stashed abroad. The Supreme Court has asked the Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee to…