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Lumb leaves Kings XI numb

From The National

Warnie leaves the media gasping for words

Case 1:
Cricinfo's headline for an article on Monday's game: When there's a Warne, there's a way. Though I wonder if they meant Where there's a Warne ...

Case 2:
Cricbuzz's Gokul Gopal gets all lyrical. The article starts off

"Misty Morning, Clouds in the sky, Without Warning a wizard walks by..

..Casting his shadow, weaving his spell, Funny clothes, tinkling bell..

..Never talking, just keeps walking, spreading his magic"

These are my favourite lines from the song 'Wizard' by Black Sabbath, released in February 1970 - 4 months after the birth of a cricketing Wizard by the name of Shane Keith Warne. Sabbath had composed the 'Wizard' inspired by the character Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings. But this song can definitely epitomize the conjuror from Australia, who dazzled the cricketing world with his magical fingers

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and this is how it ends

As for Rajasthan and the likes of Shetty sisters, they would be singing..

"Sun is Shining, Clouds have gone by, All the people give a happy sigh..

.. He has passed by, giving his sign, Left all the people feeling so fine..

..Never talking, just keeps walking, spreading his magic"

Case 3:
The Ahmedabad Mirror's Tapan Joshi gets technically correct with those good ol' idioms.

In his native Victoria, they say, “Wait till the Fat Lady spins.” Well, that’s what they now say in Rajasthan as well, as Shane Warne once again turned the match and tables on their heads — absolutely no pun intended — here on Monday night against Deccan Chargers

We just can't wait for Rajasthan to win it again this year.

A thrilling start

Is Dileep Premachandran's verdict. Read the whole article.

In Blinded by Rainbows, the Rolling Stones ask: "Did you ever touch the night/Did you ever count the cost/Do you hide away the fear/Put down paradise as lost?" I don't know about touching the darkness, but over the past five days, in three different cities, I've watched stolid Jacques Kallis win a Twenty20 game, witnessed an Eden Gardens crowd roar its approval of a returning prodigal son, and seen Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya upstaged by two kids who could still walk down a busy street in Mumbai unmolested. Welcome to the IPL.

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Any more crazy ideas?

Sourav Ganguly's KKR captaincy result in a comeback to India's national team?

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Lalit Modi the new Shah Jahan?

IPL cricket is a different game to the one which made Sachin Tendulkar; but the razzmatazz is worth it

To the uninitiated, the IPL is fast becoming the most coveted and influential property from India since the Taj Mahal that Shah Jahan built. More people in the world, I can wager without fear, have heard of the IPL than the new planets discovered in the solar system in the last few years; or indeed the name of the vice president of the United States. (Actually the latter is a bad example. Does anybody really know the name of the US vice president?)

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Waxing nonsense

The commissioner and creator of the IPL, Lalit Modi, is, according to some, a cross between Don King and Gandhi, a man described by the Times of London as "a modern Charlemagne, with a little touch of Frederick the Great, the Prussian king." Modi was a student studying in the United States when he came up with the idea for the IPL.

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