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Virender Sehwag's retirement: The unofficial Google doodle
Sports Soumyadip ChoudhuryOctober 19, 2015 0

Virender Sehwag retirement: The unofficial Google doodle

Update 3: This has gone viral. The tweet has been retweeted and favourited hundreds of times and featured on Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. Update 2: This time it is official;.…Continue Reading →

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Chamko – Fixes all spots

A topical in context of the ongoing IPL spot fixing brouhaha. This is from one of the most fondly remembered…

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Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th hundred unofficial Google doodle

Another big event that won’t find a Google doodle. For Sachin and cricket fans from around the world, here’s an…

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Sunil Gavaskar’s health plan and mix-up as a newborn

Sunil Gavaskar was paid Rs 2,000 for the first advertisement he appeared in. Though CK Nayudu and Farokh Engineer were the poineering Indian cricketers in the field of brand endorsement,…Continue Reading →

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How Maxim maidens bowl the men over

Maxim claims to be the sexiest men’s magazine around and occasionally comes with with sexy ads promoting itself. Here’s a…

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The day BSA SLR helped Kapil Dev fly high

In the 1980s, Kapil Dev was India’s hottest cricket sensation. Leading India to win the World Cup immediately gave the…

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From toddler to The Wall: A photographic tribute to Rahul Dravid

You may have seen the photos below elsewhere on the Internet, but it was on Cutting the Chai were they first appeared online, back in November 2006 and then went…Continue Reading →

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Why I haven’t watched a single IPL match till date

I know I am in a minority, maybe even a namuna. I haven’t watched a single IPL match from the…

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A Big Dose of India Versus Pakistan Cricket Stats

Everybody and their mother-in-law is writing a blog post on the big cricket match on Wednesday. It does take a…

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Sunil and Rohan Gavaskar’s Brush with Forhan’s

Abhishek Bachchan delivered a string of 17 flops before his first hit and then gradually rose up the ladder to be amongst the reigning stars of Bollywood. But cricket isn’t…Continue Reading →

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Google Chrome’s IPL / Twenty20 Cricket Ad

With the IPL broadcasting (deferred) live on YouTube, the Twenty20 bug also seem to have bitten Google Chrome. Came across…

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A Master’s Pic from When He Was Little

The last time I discovered a cricketing hero’s childhood photos, I was quite excited and passed it on to the…

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