Plays of the day

IND vs. WI, Test 1, Day 1, Jamaica, third session; Sunil Gavaskar is one of the commentators when Harbhajan Singh plays a hook shot against Fidel Edwards to be caught brilliantly at deep mid-wicket by Devendra Bishoo. This is what Sunny says on the air:

Harbhajan is not the best hooker in the Indian team.

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I think Anna Hazare is being unreasonable with some of his demands and inexorable with some of his recourses.

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Usman Road is Chennai's single largest consumption strip and which part of the shortcoming of 300 MW is going to be remitted if power is cut on the road from 0000 to 0100 hours, after the stores have closed for the day?

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Do multiple political parties formed without a significant difference of ideology impact the long-term politics of a nation?

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Test cricket is still better than the T20s. Getting a result in 3 hours is a quick reward for any effort and sustains morale well. Imagine having to wait 5 days for a result and maturing to know and understand that each minute's effort contributes to the outcome. That's a real game.

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1. EU pushes Greece to approve "austerity cuts" and increase taxes to insure against the failure of a EUR 110b loan-installment.


2. The Greek parliament hopes the public unrest will die down and approval for the cuts can go through.

That there is unrest at all to secure the financial credibility of the Greeks highlights the loss of federative consensus amidst the 17 Euro nations.