Norma Godinho covers sport for Rediff.com. You can e-mail the author at normag@rediff.co.in
'After I won the final I gave my father a call.' 'He said the family had followed my progress on TV and saw that I had won.' '"We are going to sleep now," he said.' 'I told him 'I am a world champion and you are going to sleep!'
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'Sunny Gavaskar is very mischievous, Harsha Bhogle is like a schoolboy," sports broadcaster Alan Wilkins tells Rediff.com/Norma Godinho in an exclusive interview.
'T20 cricket is popular because everything is faster and people want things quicker.' 'Test cricket is going to battle, but I would like to think that it is going to be around and stay around because if you ask Virat Kohli what gives him ultimate pleasure, it would be playing Test cricket for India.'
Lungi Ngidi bowled the most economical figures of this season's IPL to uproot Punjab's innings.
Mohammed Siraj was given the responsibility to take RCB home and he repaid Skipper Kohli's trust.
Once again, it was the teacher's son from Vadodara, that mysterious practitioner of lethal magic at the death who ensured that Rohit Sharma's side ended the night an improbable fourth on the IPL points table.
Kane and Shikhar took the game calmly over the line to book a berth in the playoffs and all but end Delhi's chances of progressing in the competition.
Once again, the Sunrisers bowlers did the job on a slow track.
Their 68 run partnership guided the Kings XI home.
This IPL, big totals have been chased down with ease.
Set to score an improbable 151 runs in 12 overs, Rajasthan fell 4 runs short.
The CSK duo scored 100 runs together, taking the game away from RCB.
After Mumbai's bowlers gave the team a great start by dismissing Sunrisers Hyderabad for a mere 118, the defending champions made a hash of the chase.
The CSK duo put on 112 runs, which powered their team to 182/3.
On Friday, it was Shane Watson's turn to make the most of the reprieves he got.
He has played only two IPL games so far. In each, he has been the Man of the Match.
That miss meant Chris Gayle went on to his first IPL-11 century.
'We need to see the bigger picture preparing for the World Cup.'
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