MasterDebate #1 UDRS with @Acricketingview

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Get out. Not out. OUT! NOT OUT! Fuck off. CHEAT. LIAR. That umpire should never umpire again. Let's put some body parts to this UDRS - join us for The MaterDebate on U-D-R-S - what does it stand for - does it indeed stand? Sit down, listen up - Bored Member Achettup hosts Kartikeya Date, who blogs at A cricketing view and tweets @cricketingview

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VVS Laxman in yet another crisis.

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Announcing The DRS MasterDebate

Enough. Enough of all those long essays and hyperlinks to this, that and even that page on the internets. Sit back. Sip your favorite beverage. And listen to all you'll ever need to hear about DRS.

That's right. The DRS MasterDebate has finally arrived. Featuring guests from cricket blogs all over the internets. Listen as your favorite Bored members make them squirm, squirm themselves but finally, once and for all, sort out the mess that is DRS.

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Before the Barbados test

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Irfan Pathan's Comeback Match.

To the narrow lanes of his childhood, Irfan returns. Kids are scattered around a makeshift wicket. The kids are oblivious of Irfan till he feigns a cough.

Kid1: Irfan, why are you here?

Kid2: Yeah, now you’ll say, you wanna open and be a pinch hitter

Irfan: No, no, no, I’m here to find my Mojo.

Kid3: Mojo…what, that’s an abuse like MO…

Irfan: Please, please children, Mojo is…how should I explain

Kid1: Simply

Irfan: Good idea, Coach said to me, “Irfan, if you have to find yourself, you must return to yourself”

Kid2: Eh? Then what are you doing in public, go find yourself in private

Kid1: And yeah, you will also find your..MO..whatever

Irfan (that disarming smile): I am here to return to basics

Kid3: That sounds like some old ratpatiya software…Basics

Irfan (that disarming smile again): Haha, nice one, but basics is where it started for me, and this gulli is where it started

The kids are now totally disarmed, by Irfan’s smile and words, the bats drop, the jaws drop, one kid’s loose half pants drop too.

Kid5: Irfan bhai, play with us, we will help you find your MO…

Irfan: Thank you, you are such a sweet boy. I don’t want to bat as a pinch hitter, I just want to bowl and put the ball in the right areas…

Kid 2 to Kid 3 (aside): Irfan bhai is watching too much cricket on TV…free time no

Irfan marks his bowling run up. It’s a cramped space so he is bang against a window in the wall. All intent when the window flies open, and knocks him out.

Woman: Oh ho, sorry sorry, I didn’t see you…usually they are kids playing and they never reach the window…sorry so sorry

Irfan (that smile again) and bowls, and dismisses the first kid with a big inswinging Yorker, followed by another and yet another, reminiscent of that Karachi test; only here the pitch is a fraction of those 22 yards.

Irfan: Thanks kids, that will be all…I am back.

And just then Yusuf appears.

Yusuf (to Irfan): Abeh yaar, Lankan league cancelled...lagta hai yahaan he khelna parega*

*looks like we'll have to play here only.

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A Suitable Job

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When Tendulkar met Federer

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Chess on Grass II

“I’m gonna wait on
With all my boundary riders
I’m gonna wait on
With all my sweepers
I’m gonna wait on
With that long on in place

But I’m gonna keep
A wide first slip
And I’m gonna keep
A wide gully
And I’m gonna keep
A wide approach
Till your mind
Narrows up
And can only see
What I want it to see”


“I’m gonna wait on
With all my boundless patience
I’m gonna wait on
With all my cut shots
I’m gonna wait on
With all my big hoiks

But I’m gonna keep
A wide eye
And I’m gonna keep
A wide stance
And I’m gonna keep
A wide approach
Till your mind
Narrows up
And can only see
What I want it to see.”

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Just like Sachin Tendulkar, we too are spending time with family.

It's been a manic season, winning the world cup and then the IPL, we had to stop while the seniors were on top. Regular service to start soon. Till then, see what Sachin is up to in his cricket break.

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Why India can't make that UDRS call

Why India can't make that Umpire Decision Review System call

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What does Virat Kohli look like

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Jayasuriya Comeback Baby!

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Baba Ramdev's brilliant disguise as cricket anchor

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Cricket Kamasutra

1) S Badrinath

2) S Badrinath

3) S Badrinath

4) S Badrinath

5) S Badrinath

6) S Badrinath

7) S Badrinath

8) S Badrinath

9) S Badrinath

10) S Badrinath

11) S Badrinath


S Badrinath bats in every position you can dream of, and then some more.

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Manmohan Singh & Harbhajan Singh:

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Boredwaani: Chasing cricket in the USA

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When you move from a land where cricket is the ultimate answer and go to a place where, if you mention cricket the common question is, "I've heard cricket games go for days.. Is that so?", you do all that you can to watch the one sport you truly love. Bored Members Homer (trapped in time zones), Samir Chopra (serial user of the tape-delay system), The Cricket Couch (who watched a Ind-Pak WC match amongst 40 Indians and 40 Pakistanis) and bored guest Devanshu Mehta talk about the various things they had to resort to, to watch cricket in the U.S.

Devanshu Mehta blogs at Deep Backward Point

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Bhajji as vice captain?

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Boredwaani: Watching cricket in the USA ( with or without Willow TV)

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Cricket fans in the U.S. have long been at the mercy of cricinfo's commentary and satellite dishes to follow live cricket. With the advent of Willow TV, a solution emerged but bored member Samir Chopra ran into some serious issues with the service. Listen to bored members Samir and The Cricket Couch thrash out the Willow TV issue with bored guest, Devanshu Mehta, who pursued various angles to the story .


Devanshu Mehta blogs at Deep Backward Point 

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