Author Archive: Jinxatious

Jinxatious is the Chief Editor of SportingAttitude.com
An avid writer, on an eclectic range of subjects, he brings to bear editorial experience garnered with a national newspaper in South-East Asia. He also has sportscasting experience, as a cricket commentator, and his passion for sport extends beyond Cricket, to Football, Tennis, and Olympic Sports.

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ICC World Cup: Australia Head to Head With Others

| July 26, 2010 | 1 Comment

Australia are the defending champions and before any speculation about who is going to win the Icc World Cup in 2011, we must take into account Australia’s head to head record against each of the other teams at past World Cups: Opponent Matches Played Matches Won By Aus Matches Lost By Aus No Result Bangladesh [...]

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EPL 2010: Arsenal’s New Star Koscielny

| July 26, 2010 | 0 Comments

Arsenal fans have a new star to look forward to, this coming season, in Laurent Koscielny.  The 24-year old Koscielny has had two opportunities to showcase his skills – against Sturm Graz and Barnet – ahead of the tournament, in which Arsenal have a huge opener against Liverpool, scheduled to kick off at 16:00 on [...]

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Bollywood Cricket: Head Injury Part 3

| July 26, 2010 | 0 Comments

This is the third episode of the story of Bollywood directors invited to the commentary box at a  cricket match, to comment on an incident where an opening batsman is hit on the head by the first ball of the match and his physio takes him to hospital for a brain scan. Meanwhile, the bowler [...]

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ICC World Cup 2011: Teams & Groups

| July 26, 2010 | 0 Comments

The ICC World Cup will see 14 participating teams, split into 2 groups, A and B, competing to decide the world’s best ODI team. Full members of the ICC qualify automatically for the world cup that is held every four years. The 10 full members who have qualified automatically for this 10th edition of the [...]

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EPL 2010: English Premier League Kicks Off On Aug 14

| July 25, 2010 | 2 Comments

If you thought football excitement ended with the FIFA World Cup 2010, here’s another roller coaster, the next edition of the English Premier League or the EPL as it popularly known. From August 14, onward, the following twenty teams will compete in what is rated among the world’s best football leagues: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham, [...]

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Bollywood Cricket: Head Injury Part 2

| July 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is a continuation of the story of Bollywood directors in the commentary box at a  cricket match where the batting team’s opener has been hit on the head by a bouncer and taken to hospital for a brain scan by the team physio. Also, news has come in that the bowler has announced his [...]

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ICC World Cup 2011: 8 Venues Finalized In India

| July 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

Eight stadiums in India will be on the itinerary for the players taking part in the ICC World Cup, scheduled to begin on 19 February 2011, in Mirpur, in, Bangladesh. The World Cup will start off with group matches among seven teams each in two groups, A and B. India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will [...]

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Leeds Test: Australia Land 4 Blows Before Being KO’ed

| July 25, 2010 | 0 Comments

A nervy Pakistan lost 4 wickets before getting the last 40 runs needed for a historic win, on the fourth day of the Leeds test, against Australia. Pakistan added six runs to their overnight 140/3, before Bollinger got Azhar Ali to edge one to keeper Paine. Four runs later, Paine combined with Hilfenhaus to account [...]

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Leeds Test: Pakistan Have Australia On the Ropes

| July 24, 2010 | 0 Comments

A fighting 77 by Smith in the Leeds test against Pakistan helped Australia recover partially from 246/7 to 349 all out. But the target of 180 to win was never going to fluster even a fickle batting team like Pakistan. If Pakistan do go on to get the 40 more runs they need, the credit [...]

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ICC World Cup 2011: The Indian Team Probables

| July 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
ICC World Cup 2011: The Indian Team Probables

This is the final squad for the world cup picked on January 17: Dhoni , Tendulkar, Sehwag,  Gambhir, Yuvraj , Raina, Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer, Nehra, Munaf, Piyush Chawla, R Ashwin NOTE: No Rohit Sharma, Sreesanth, Ishant Sharma, Ojha; no second keeper Surprise inclusion: Piyush Chawla Breaking News on December 18 India’s [...]

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