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verse because they re the ones that make our dreams reality the other indispensable element is the fan everyone else whether it s the administrators or the media gets something out of sport those that invest financially usually get their rewards but what of emotional investment i came across a couple of boys in nagpur just before the india south africa world cup game they d travelled 10 hours by train in an unreserved compartment to get there they had no hotel room they had freshened up and had a quick bite at the railway station and once the match was over they had to head back to mumbai the same way passion is the most abused word in sport but travel around india when cricket is played and you can still feel it people who get nothing tangible from the game but give so much of themselves to it at wisden india we intend to listen to those fans because we believe they matter when you support a manchester united or a barcelona you get something back in barcelona s case the supporters are stakeholders in the club can we honestly say that indian cricket looks after its fans that the stadium experience is good enough for them to keep going back it s all too easy to sit in an air conditioned press box and criticise low turn out but what are we doing about it we treat fans as caricatures as over emotional effigy burners but there are millions who are not wisden india will give them a space to express their views and concerns it s not just fans either we are prepared to work with everyone who has a stake in cricket i emphasis the word with because we will not work for anyone independence has always been the hallmark of the wisden imprint and that will not change when it comes to india we will stand up for what we feel is right but we will not push the agendas of those with vested interests wisden india will be true to the game to its players and the fans whose support makes all of this possible we believe that nothing else matters posted in uncategorized 3 comments bcci censorship and cricinfo september 5 2011 by dileep if you repeat a half truth or a lie often enough it can begin to sound like the truth that happens a lot in indian cricket these days over everything from fitness updates to blanket statements about the indian premier league last week i listened to a discussion on espncricinfo about indian cricket s future that involved a former selector who also played seven one day internationals for the national team he watches a lot of domestic cricket and offered sane and measured answers to most questions until the ipl cropped up in conjunction with india s miserable performance on the tour of england at that stage he said let s blame the ipl for india winning the world cup it was meant to be a sarcastic aside but it had very sinister undertones on two levels continue reading posted in cricket 38 comments underdelhi may 7 2011 by dileep in february 1995 one of mumbai s top police officers was investigating a murder case when his men brought in a suspect for interrogation as soon as he saw the officer the man broke down sir main bahut gareeb aadmi hoon mera murder se koi connection nahi hai main chotta aadmi hoon sirf match fixing karta hoon i m a very poor man i don t have any connection with the murder i only fix matches he said till then the officer hadn t even heard of fixing at the time india were in new zealand for the centenary cup tournament along with south africa and australia kal ka match fixed hai sir tomorrow s match is fixed the man said once it was proved that he had nothing to do with the killing he was allowed to leave over the years while business has flourished he has continue to give the police information periodically the cops arrest his men from various city suburbs each time they go out on bail continue reading posted in cricket tagged match fixing 6 comments the legacy of boys town january 30 2011 by dileep o neil gordon smith collie to those that knew and loved him has been dead nearly 50 years yet you wouldn t know it if you listened to locksley comrie talk about him comrie moved to one of the poorest neighbourhoods in jamaica when he was six years old though back then trenchtown wasn t the byword for gang violence that it has become today he grew up idolising collie and like his hero he was head boy at the school in boys town in later years he headed jamaica s football association and was also president of his neighbourhood club the same institution that once boasted of players like collie and sir frank worrell comrie doesn t go back to the area as much as he d like these days when he does it s often for the wrong reasons a lot of my old friends have been killed in the area he tells you earlier today i was watching a football game on tv and you could see a helicopter circling overhead there s a fear of violence and that violence is a fact of life in trenchtown now growing up it was never like that boys town was one of the most successful institutions in the caribbean and dare i say it the most unique in the world continue reading posted in uncategorized 4 comments what injury crisis what management september 12 2010 by dileep over the next fortnight as a glorified exhibition event called the champions league which proper tournament would have a player eligible to represent two or three teams seeks legitimacy in the eyes of the game s aficionados india s selectors will be peering nervously through their fingers there are three test series scheduled for the next four months which will decide whether india remain at the top of the tree or come back to earth with a thud as important are the 13 one day internationals tagged on especially with a six week long world cup to start in february a player will need to be bionic man to play all the games and how shrewdly the five man panel rotates the resources available will have a huge bearing on whether or not india become only the second host nation to win the world cup it s one of those little nuggets of trivia now that india s legendary spin quartet played only one test together at edgbaston in 1967 they took 18 wickets and kept england under 300 in both innings but traditional frailties with the bat away from home scuppered any chance of victory thereafter it was always a case of musical chairs with s venkataraghavan or erapalli prasanna usually missing out continue reading posted in cricket tagged dileep premachandran doosra redux ishant sharma sreesanth zaheer khan 3 comments don t leave the kids alone september 5 2010 by dileep we had just won the world cup and i thought i could get away with murder man i think one has to have a guide a mentor they can talk to trust and blindly believe what they say it could be a fellow player a coach or parents if that other person says you are crap right now you close your eyes and believe that is so thankfully due to my education and upbringing i realised soon that i was heading the wrong way these are not the thoughts of the 18 year old mohammad amir who played his part in pakistan s world twenty20 triumph last year those words came from robin uthappa now 24 in an interview with cricinfo with amir now suspended and likely to face a ban from all forms of cricket we should focus on what uthappa says make no mistake indian or pakistani every young player who comes into the bubble is vulnerable continue reading posted in cricket tagged dileep premachandran doosra redux match fixing mohammad amir robin uthappa 7 comments conflict of interest and caesar s wife september 3 2010 by dileep two men have effectively been steering indian cricket s ship over the past few years one of them is a liar which one and can the game afford to have either in a position of power despite not being the figurehead lalit modi was the prime mover for a half decade the man who wheeled and dealed set up the indian premier league and was then ousted based on misdemeanours that have yet to be proved n srinivasan is the board secretary the man now as influential and powerful as modi once was given his ownership of the chennai super kings through india cements he has been at the centre of conflict of interest allegations for a while now but with the gloves off and open hostility between the two men there are so many skeletons tumbling out of the cupboard that they could remake michael jackson s thriller video last week a tv channel released emails that suggested the 2009 ipl auction had been fixed so that the super kings could sign andrew flintoff who then turned out to be the biggest waste of money in the fledging league s history modi later told cricinfo that srinivasan and the super kings pressurised the ipl operating team when he was asked if other successful bids were less than transparent he replied yes to my knowledge continue reading posted in cricket tagged dileep premachandran doosra redux krishnamachari srikkanth lalit modi n srinivasan wasim akram 3 comments walking the line may 23 2010 by dileep at some point in the 1990s george best the greatest footballer the british isles had ever seen popped into his local pub in london and sat down with a half pint his liver was already failing and the doctors had told him to go easy a while later a giant of a man walked in eyeing best in the corner he walked up to him and said can i get you a pint no thanks said best too important to drink with the likes of me are you said the man with a hint of menace in his voice best ignored him when he leaned in closer best looked up and told the man to off make me he snarled best who had never shied away from a challenge on the field stood up and socked him one flush on the jaw the man didn t flinch that the best you can do then he sneered oh alright then get me another half said best i was reminded of that anecdote when i read the non story about the eight indian cricketers inside tequila joe s in st lucia continue reading posted in cricket tagged dileep premachandran doosra redux george best virender sehwag 7 comments where are the hungry young men may 16 2010 by dileep lee bowyer could have been somebody at the turn of the new millennium he was the engine of a young and vibrant leeds united side that had the football world at its feet then after a drunken night at the majestyk nightclub bowyer and jonathan woodgate also daft as a brush were accused of a racist attack on sarfraz najeib a pakistani student the court case took months and its aftermath resulted in leeds being relegated and then sliding down the leagues bowyer who was once seen as being on the same level as steven gerrard and frank lampard plies his trade for birmingham city these days any chance of greatness having long since passed him by the english premier league like its indian cricket equivalent is a harsh environment to grow up in pots of money a fancy car a week if you feel like it an endless stream of faux celebrity girlfriends and groupies parasitic agents and hangers on but for every idiot like bowyer who hits the skids there are others like paul scholes and ryan giggs exemplary professionals who have lasted nearly as long as tendulkar at the top continue reading posted in cricket tagged dileep premachandran doosra redux kevin pietersen michael hussey yuvraj singh 4 comments eden and the magic of test cricket february 22 2010 by dileep as a microcosm of life sport too has its i was there moments occasions that made you believe it was more than just a game if away victories in the west indies and england in 1971 were akin to the fall of the berlin wall for indian cricket then the agony the miandad six in sharjah and narrow defeat in sunil gavaskar s final test both against pakistan and the ecstacy upsetting the west indians to win the world cup in 1983 of the decade that followed were like nelson mandela s long walk to freedom those were the games that defined a generation of players and fans alike the faded photographs of the lover whose face has become increasingly blurred with time test cricket with its drawn out plots and hitchcockian twists is an anachronism in the 21st century and you half suspect that there are those in the game s administration that wouldn t mind seeing it go the way of the t rex after all it s one day cricket the govinda movie with popcorn and twenty20 the five minute cartoon that have the cash registers going ker ching test cricket though is a resilient beast and from time to time it throws up matches that captivate a nation and bring in a whole new breed of fan english cricket is ineffably richer for the ashes series of 2005 five matches where dame fortune didn t seem to know which team to favour from ricky ponting s bloodied cheek at lord s to kevin pietersen s dashing final day century at the oval a generation that had never seen english ashes success lapped it up sadly in india where respect for elders is a way of life the most venerable form of the game has often been given short shrift every other major test playing nation has its traditional matches the ones that people plan their holidays around whether it s boxing day at the melbourne cricket ground the new year s tests at the sydney cricket ground or newlands or lord s in summer these occasions have become part of the social fabric whatever happened to the pongal test in chennai why not play at the eden gardens during holi or in mumbai during diwali those that run the game won t give you any answers after all board politics meant that kolkata didn t host a test in 2008 or 09 while games were played at venues like nagpur and mohali in front of largely empty stands ask the players where they d rather play and they ll tell you eden has always been special says harbhajan singh one of the heroes of the innings win that kept india at the top of the test tree i have not heard this kind of noise anywhere in india in test matches we don t always get crowds but at eden you do for the whole five days it s fantastic the game was too with india resurrecting its hopes after a dire first two sessions that saw south africa canter to 218 for 1 the famed eden roar that helped bring steve waugh s australia to its knees back in 2001 then came into play as the middle order fell apart india never looked back with virender sehwag sachin tendulkar vvs laxman and ms dhoni all scoring contrasting centuries as a massive lead was built then without zaheer khan the pace talisman had picked up a thigh strain and in spite of the magnificent hashim amla who batted 499 minutes for his unbeaten 123 the patched up attack bowled india to victory when harbhajan trapped morne morkel leg before with only nine balls left to be bowled there was bedlam in the stands reports of test cricket s imminent demise had clearly been exaggerated keeping it healthy in the age of popcorn cricket may not be impossible after all this was the latest column for the sunday guardian a new newspaper published out of delhi posted in cricket tagged dileep premachandran doosra redux harbhajan singh 7 comments older posts dileep 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