The 45 day cricket World Cup draws to a close this weekend with a fitting finale. The joint hosts- Australia and New Zealand will face off at the ground the locals call “The G”. The game is slated for Sunday in the southern hemisphere which makes it a 11:00 PM (ET) Saturday start in the… Read more »
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How to watch the Cricket World Cup 2015 in the U.S
The Cricket World Cup begins in 15 days with a promising double-header. Sri Lanka play New Zealand at Christchurch and Australia face England at the Melbourne Cricket ground. If, like me, you live in the U.S you are probably already thinking about ways to celebrate Valentine’s day a week early or a week late so… Read more »
When brilliant met invincible
Virat in Sanskrit means brilliant. Ajinkya in Sanskrit means invincible. Rarely in cricket history have protagonist names matched their virtuoso deeds as they did for four hours on Sunday, the 28’th of December 2014 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Two 26 year olds put on a show. They drove and they cut and they… Read more »
My quiz at the Bay Area Quiz Club August 2014
The Bay Area Quiz club meets once a month on the campus of Stanford University. One volunteer prepares a collection of questions while 20-40 smart men and women are partitioned randomly into teams and attempt to answer these questions. The questions span a vast range of topics and typically make you think hard. It is… Read more »
Five lasting videos from the Lord’s test
There were five videos from my five days at Lord’s that I wanted to share with y’all. Here they are below in descending order of entertainment 1) The Ravi Jadejaaaa chant – I have been driving my wife nuts with this chant. Hope you will drive someone nuts too ! 2) The “Jimmy is a… Read more »
Five days at Lord’s
Checking something off the bucket list is fun. It is where prayer meets planning meets reality. Attending major events at three iconic sports venues is the entirety of my travel bucket list and I hadn’t visited a place on my list since a freezing January morning in 2004 (I was at this game). Until July… Read more »
The kids are alright – Indian cricket and a momentous win at Lord’s
I was lucky to be at Lord’s this past week to watch an extraordinary game of cricket. Over the next two days, I will be writing more about my time there, the experience of watching a game at Lord’s, the food and drink at Lord’s all accompanied with plenty of pictures and videos. Before that,… Read more »
The fault in our star: Why the five test series vs. England is all about Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has played in over 500 cricket matches in just under nine years. He has kept wickets in almost all these games while also shouldering the mantle of captaincy in over 70% of the games. During this period he has achieve unique success and authored memorable moments simply known to cricket fans as… Read more »
Vegetarian food in Peru
One year ago (to the date), I wrote about finding vegetarian food in Taiwan. Taiwan is notoriously difficult for herbivores and the whole exercise of me writing that post was to make it easier for vegetarians like me to survive on trips to the Asian superpower-in-progress. This post on the other hand is about searching… Read more »
A cricket primer for America ahead of the World T20 final on ESPN2
America, A very unfamiliar program will greet you this Sunday morning when you turn on ESPN2. Instead of the dulcet tone and canned notes of John Saunders or the 732’nd breakdown of the Final Four, you will be greeted with cacophony, terrible play-by-play and references to tracer bullets. You may also be greeted with loud,… Read more »
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