Unreal Match Report: Champions Trophy: Indian tigers toy with Pakistani chicken
June 16, 2013 10 Comments
Going into the dead rubber, Captain Cool was faced with a problem of plenty, and we are talking about the bowling. “Please MS bhai, let us have a go at the Pakistani batting line-up,” pleaded bench-warmers, Irfan Pathan and Vinay Kumar, realizing such opportunities don’t come frequently. Eventually, MS decided to stick with the original [...]
Continue reading …Parents of school kids panic on inclusion of Wasim Akram in Champions Trophy English commentary team
June 12, 2013 6 Comments
Like a Rohit Sharma innings, every summer vacation comes to an end just when you start enjoying it the most. Even as school kids reluctantly drag themselves to school with the same enthusiasm that Munaf Patel exhibits while marking his run up, parents are grappling with a far bigger headache: Wasim Akram’s English commentary for [...]
Continue reading …Fed up with their batsmen’s failures, Pakistani bowlers dump team; knock on doors of Team India
June 10, 2013 7 Comments
Fed up with Pakistani batsmen posting lousy, impossible to defend totals on decent batting tracks, Pakistani bowlers have quit the national team and offered their services to teams with better batting line-ups, especially Team India, in the hope of reducing their burden. Pakistani bowlers are especially envious of their Indian counterparts, who are often spoilt [...]
Continue reading …Facebook Wall: Team India celebrates win over SA, Kundra squirms as Delhi police turn on the heat
June 7, 2013 6 Comments
Even as the IPL spotfixing-betting scandal refuses to die down with more skeletons tumbling out of the closet – the latest is that RR owner and Shilpa Shetty’s husband, Raj Kundra, has confessed to betting on his own team – Team India’s on field form against South Africa took a turn for the better with [...]
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Jamaican swashbuckler, Chris Gayle, launched his own cricket academy in London last weekend, amid much fanfare. The academy reportedly takes after the hard-hitting batsman’s personality, and aims to identify and nurture upcoming talent in the art of power-hitting and various other aspects of the gentleman’s game. Fortunately, for us, The UnReal Times Jamaican correspondent Narine [...]
Continue reading …LEAKED: Wikileaks reveals huge list of bookie code-words: Nehra was ‘Pepsodent’, many more
June 1, 2013 7 Comments
As police investigators plough ahead with their investigations into the murky nexus between bookies, cricketers, businessmen and IPL owners cricket enthusiasts, more details regarding the code words used by bookies in referring to cricketers have emerged, thanks to a Wikileaks expose. “Some of them were obvious such as ‘Pepsodent’ for Ashish Nehra and ‘Rajini’ for [...]
Continue reading …Bookies promise to fix matches in Champions Trophy in India’s favour to regain public standing
May 31, 2013 8 Comments
Reeling under a barrage of bad press and arrests of dozens of bookies suspected of spot-fixing across Indian cities, the Bookie Association of India (BAI), the nodal body catering to the interests of bookies, spotfixers and sundry cricket enthusiasts, has attempted to regain lost ground and shore up its public standing by promising to fix [...]
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The past couple of weeks have been hard on BCCI chief N Srinivasan, buffeted as he has been from many quarters to step down in the wake of his son-in-law’s arrest for betting. However, a defiant Srinivasan has dug in his heels and categorically refused to quit. Given this context, The UnReal Times Gmail enthusiast, [...]
Continue reading …UnReal Match Report: After Mumbai Police, Mumbai Indians maul CSK to win IPL6
May 27, 2013 6 Comments
A spectacular bowling performance by Mumbai Indians helped them defend a modest score of 148 to win their maiden IPL trophy. Earlier in the day, the Mumbai Police had laid the foundations by extracting confessions from CSK team principal owner enthusiast, Gurunath Meiyappan: The onus was on the MI boys to deliver on the field [...]
Continue reading …Facebook Wall: Mumbai Police extract confessions out of Gurunath Meiyappan, Srini battles detractors
May 26, 2013 4 Comments
Mumbai Police vs CSK former owner, Gurunath Meiyappan, was far more interesting than any of the IPL matches so far. With the cops taking a strategic time out before they resumed their interrogation, the focus shifted to the other match: Srini vs Sharad Pawar. We bring you highlights of both the matches:
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