Thoughts on Indian Cricket

A great tax haven for you in Panama!!

2008-11-11T13:19:00.000-08:00

As the President of USA Barack Obama is going to try to shut down the offshore tax havens. Another plan of Obama would make it mandatory for all nations to disclose tax information between all countries. But he is not in any position to order independent countries to agree to his whims and fancies.

As Panama does not have good relations with USA, it would be an ideal location for you to set up your tax haven. Here is an article which helps you to create your own tax haven and to protect your hard earned money from the clutches of socialists like Barack Obama.

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Cheer leaders and Indian moral police!!

2008-04-24T14:01:00.000-07:00

They are at it again. This time the politicians are going after the cheer leaders for IPL(Indian Premier League) which is going on now. They think the 5000 year old culture of India is going to be destroyed if some scantily clad cheer leaders dance in public. They need to learn about Kama Soothra and the sculptures and paintings of Khajuraho. They could find some more examples of Indian sexuality in the drawings on temples all over India. Sex and dance was not a taboo in Indian society. In the western Christian culture, sex has been a taboo. Now these politicians are confused about the culture they are defending. They are behaving like the moral police who were ruling the streets in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

Let these dancers perform and enthrall the people of the country. Dance should not be a privilege of the very rich and powerful who can only afford the expensive clubs. Let the average man of India enjoy some dances too.

Eventually in a couple of years, girls from India will take on the dancers job from the present group and that will be a new avenue of money for Indian girls.

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Let us get rid off byes and leg byes

2008-04-20T11:29:00.000-07:00

Those two are the scoring methods in cricket which ruins the game's elegance. The team gets runs because of sheer luck when the ball goes off the batsman's body or even touching no where at all. This is not right about the spirit of the game. Runs should be given only if the bat hits the ball genuinely. Even the lucky edges which results in runs to the area right behind the wicket keeper need to be taken away. This will take the gambling aspect of a cricket game away to a great extent and will make it much more a game of skill and temperament. This will add the level of competitiveness of the game and will increase the interest in the game many fold.

Is the betting mafia involved?

2008-04-04T15:50:00.000-07:00

Were there any involvement from Dawood Ibrahim in the first Indian innings of the first test against South Africa? I do have my suspicions, since India were doing better than their usuallevel and then they run out for a paltry 70 runs. I know cricket is like gambling. But is there any actual gambling involved in it this time? It could be another one of my wild conspiracy theories.

ICC is trying goondayism on ICL players

2008-03-22T02:33:00.000-07:00

ICC is behaving like an under world don, by banning players from playing county cricket, for playing in ICL. Dawood Ibrahim won't allow you to do business in his area unless you pay him his dues. ICC is behaving the same way against ICL for not paying ICC the protection money.

Adam Gilchrist felt like a cow at the IPL auction!!

2008-03-16T03:21:00.000-07:00

If it were us we would be wondering what we are going to do with all the money we are going to gain. But for Gilchrist, he has money already. So money is not an issue. I can understand how it feels like when some one else is bidding for my services. Even if they are bidding for my services, I may feel that the bidding is for me the person. He is probably used to seeing the cows being auctioned. Hence the term "felt like a cow".

Two Sharmas and a Kumar - Gain from the Australian Tour.

2008-03-05T08:45:00.000-08:00

I mean Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma and Praveen Kumar. They are the find of the 2008 Australian tour. I sure do hope they will keep the current form consistently. Still I think we miss the consistency of Saurav Ganguly. He was the most consistent of the Indian lot. Irfan Pathan did a good job through the test matches, but could not keep the form through one days. He went for some runs. Harbhajan Singh was the opposite of this. He could not support the Indian bowling attack of Ishant Sharma, Irfan Pathan and Kumble during the test series. That was one major reason why we lost the test series. But in the one days, he redeemed himself with some pretty good bowling. The knowledge that Murali Karthik is waiting for his chance might tempt Harbhajan Singh to perform better in the future. But then the selectors may not give Karthik a chance again. He did a pretty decent job when he had his chance during the two matches against Australia. Then he was kept out unceremoniously. Badareenath was taken in to the team for a while and dumped even without giving chance to play even once. Now that does not make sense at all. You select some one only if you are capable. Once you select, you need to give him a chance at least to prove himself in a couple of matches. Remember how Ishant Sharma got his chance. Because of injuries to the other bowlers. Were it not for those injuries he would probably still be waiting outside for his chance. India with a population of 1.14 billion population should be having a much better team than Australia with 21 million population. But the selectors with their unprofessional moves make the Indian team suffer.

V. R. Krishnayyar feels bad about big money in IPL!!

2008-02-23T13:20:00.000-08:00

Today in the news papers there was a comment from retired Justice V.R.Krishanayyar decrying the big money involved in the newly created IPL(Indian Premier League). He is criticizing it as if it is a sin to plan any thing which involves big money. There is nothing wrong with big money being thrown in to Indian Cricket. And these are not tax payer money. This is being paid by private companies and individuals. They are definitely going to do a better job than the government as you can see the performance of private sector and public sector institutions. They are definitely going to reward hard work and merit more than race/state/religion/caste etc., which is the criteria for the politicians. And they are going to try to make a profit from their investment. There is nothing wrong in that.

Rahul Dravid and twenty twenty

2008-02-21T09:41:00.000-08:00

Rahul Dravid and twenty twenty are a pretty weird combination. And he is going to get a very high salary for his partnership. He is like the last man whom any body would chose for a twenty twenty game. He is good on a test team. He is okay for a one day team. But for twenty twenty!! Bangalore team did not have any choice as they were forced to have him as their captain and to be paid 15% more than the highest paid member of the team. Since ICC forced this deal on the team,they did not have any choice. Now we have to wait and see if the team will dump him at the first chance they get.