March , 2007
Compromise or cricket?
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So what is it that World Cup 2007 will be remembered for? The highest World Cup total, (India against Bermuda), the early exit of sub-continental giants (India and Pakistan) or the murder of the Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer under suspicious circumstances? Will anyone ever talk about who won this cup? The cricketing brilliance which is bound to shine through as the cup campaign gets into the Super 8 phase? As I still recover from the shock of India's defeat to Bangladesh and then the abject surrender to Sri Lanka, I am asking myself what does cricket mean to me now. Let me just take you along with me on a small walk down the memory lane. Like most kids in India I also grew up cherishing the skills of Sunny Gavaskar, Sandeep Patil, Kapil Dev. When Ravi Shastri drove an AUDI car at the MCG in 1985, with....
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Bhupendra Chaubey has been a TV journalist for the past 12 years starting his career with NDTV. As a political journalist travelling across the length and breadth of the country, he has that unique ability to grasp things at a micro level and then present it on a macro level. A graduate in Mathematics and post graduate in films, Bhupendra has been among the finest political journalists of his generation having covered two general elections and assembly elections of all states. He is amongst those journalists who depend more on their ground political awareness supplementing it with academic awareness of issues that confront the nation. Bhupendra often hosts the very popular and award winning news show face the nation on CNN-IBN. He wants to be associated with the process of understanding the ever changing face of India. He lives in the national capital with his family.
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