Yes, there is a match to be played in Mumbai! No, he is not going to be asked to prepare wicket for another boring match!

He is being called to Mumbai, to prepare Mumbai’s roads!

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Dav Whatmore has had a history of working with sides and taking them to unprecedented success. He has done with Bangladesh Cricket and has done it with the Indian Under 19 team.

But more than the records, what might work for this Australian is his ability to let the team hog the lime light and an abhorrence for controversies. For an IPL team, he may find it difficult to avoid the media, but his natural skills will certainly come in handy to him!

Whatmore’s approach is low-profile, hands-on and focuses on man-management skills. The fact that he has been working with Indian domestic circuit, will make sure all racist innuendo is spared!

Yes, Dav Whatmore may be the best bet for KKR to do a Deccan Chargers!

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Yeah, I feel like Madhuri Dixit! And Bored makes me go ‘Dhak Dhak’, which is why I chose to be back here! Yeah, we have already had one premonition from 2014, the one from the IPL and here is another one!

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 BCCI President Sourav Ganguly, also the CAB president since 2009, made an announcement this morning. With effect from today, there will no Australian coaches for the Indian team henceforth, nor for any of the state associations!

IPL has been excluded from Sourav’s ruling, and John Buchanan, the coach of KXIP is to keep his job! With multiple team owners, none on talking terms with each other, a similar concept had been introduced by John for captaincy in their team!

Ajinkya Rahane – kar and Abhishek Nayar-kar are hoping to be selected for Indian team’s tour to Afghanistan! (Yeah, I had to drag that country in!) Both the men-boys are hoping to carry SMG and SRT’s legacy forward.

Former Australian Captain, Ricky Ponting has created a furore with the release of his new book, ” We played as a Team – Just the 11 of us”. In his book, he has insulted all Indian players, by not making a single mention of any them in the book. This could now be taken as a sign of changing times. Taking potshots at Indian players, it seems, is no more a worthy marketing ploy!

Courtesy: Bored Cricket Crazy Indians – The Premier Website on Everything Cricket!

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Yeah, Mind You! You read it here first!

7 Spots in the ICC T20 WC’s Super Eights have been decided, and it is time I make some comments over these teams!

India and Ireland – EYEs of the Super Eights

They avoided another upset, in this tournament of upsets! An upset by itself! One match to go, an I for an I!

They were less fancied then Bangladesh, but they registered a fantastic win against them, to book a spot in the Super 8s!

Sri Lanka and West Indies – Survivors from the Group of Death

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All Padded Up was away for a long time. All Padded Up was to give you complete IPL gyan, and we missed out on the finals!

Did we?

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Yeah, Bored was live last night, and I was one of those on the panel! I mention this, cause our moderators deserve a special thanks! It must have been one hell of a task for them!

So, the warm up matches are over, including the India-Pakistan warm up final! It is time for the T20 carnival to begin!

A quick look at the teams:

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Read Live Bored Coverage of India v/s Pakistan Warm up game!

Why? Well, that is what this entire post is about!

I was watching this particular news channel about MSD’s press conference and Team India’s T20 Squad’s photo session! Of course you don’t care which news channel it was, because all of them are the same!

(That photo can be seen at SP’s)

What interested me, was Team India’s enthusiasm through out the photo session. It reminded me of those photo sessions, we all had back in our school days, the ones that were taken for the annual mags!

Indian Team’s stars were behaving those school kids after all! The team had all of them!

The guy laughing all the way about how funny this photo session is! Read Harbhajan there!

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Read India’s Kiddie XI by Ankit Poddar

Tobacco Kills and you know it! So, why do you still go about about smoking?!

Tobacco like guns have been designed to kill, and they are doing a pretty good job, by getting you addicted! Tobacco Advertising kills you further more, by making you think you are doing a cool job!

No, you know this should not happen! So, get up and be counted! Do your bit for the society. Give up your tobacco, and support TASB and WHO in bringing a Tobacco-free world into existence.

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In my last post for TASB, I had compared brand mascots to celebrities, and basically sided with those brand mascots!

But as pointed out in the comments, and as basic observation of various ad campaigns and their mascots would tell oneself, brand mascots are by no ways, a guarantee to success of any particular campaign!

There are various issues that have to be taken care of, to avoid these mascots becoming overheads for the ad companies and ad agencies!

Here are the some of them:

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An article that Ankit Poddar had written for Bored Cricket Crazy Indians (titled: A premonition from IPL 2014) has found its way into The Week, May 24th, 2009!
The exact excerpt used was the following:

IPL in Afghanistan
Perhaps the highlight of IPL 2 has been the number of blogs and websites commenting on it. One site calls itself the BCCI-Bored Cricket Crazy Indians. And its predicted report for IPL 2014 begins thus: “IPL chairman Lalit Modi thanks the government of Afghanistan for providing them with the best security measures and brilliant hospitality throughout the IPL. Che, formerly known as Cheteshwar Pujara, the captain of India and IPL Saurashtra Team, thanked Sachin Tendulkar for inspiring him to lead his side to victory….”

Read A premonition from IPL 2014!

Read The Week, May 24th!

Read Homer bringing it to Ankit Poddar’s notice!