Every time the calendar moves to the 1’st March, I need little spiritual me-time. No single date on the calendar has affected the sports fan in me, as much. 11-year-old me watched a cricket match on a 1’st of March only to have faith and passion ripped out in the most brutal fashion imaginable. 22-year-old… Read more »
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Anticipation is the best part – Test cricket edition
This post will be irrelevant an hour from now. Day 3 of the gripping test match between India and Australia at Chennai would have commenced then. And the anticipation and predictions in our head would have either been disproved violently or validated indelibly. But for now I want to talk about the anticipation and how… Read more »
Six defining memories of Australia vs. India in India
My first memories of test match cricket are of a batsman vomiting. Five year old me watched Dean Jones puke, many times over. I don’t remember what I thought or what my dad and his friends told me as Dean Jones puked, peed and sweat his way to a double hundred. But I remember watching… Read more »
Mohammed Azharuddin and the start of Indian cricket’s unique 20 year run
There are challenges aplenty facing Indian cricket and the idea of the nation of India, today. Happy days on either front are not as plenty as we’d like them to be. But to put this in context I wanted to take us back 20 years to the day and talk about a much harder day… Read more »
Ramachandra Guha and his distance from an Indian cricket fan
Bill Simmons is American sport’s most influential voice today. He is ESPN’s single most indispensable property. He has over a million Twitter followers and is read by more people weekly than any other American sports columnist, reporter or writer. He is so popular that his milquetoast conversations with childhood friends (which sound like they could… Read more »
Different coaches for different courses – A grand English cricket experiment
The two Ashes series are deservedly the marquee competitions in cricket this year. Pakistan’s tour of South Africa and Australia’s tour of India offer compelling subplots and the expected eventual retirement of a certain #4 batsman may end up being what the year is remembered for. With all of these events in the pipeline, the… Read more »
Conversation with a member of the Barmy Army
Fans of the England cricket team travel really well. They are collectively known as the Barmy army and were out in large numbers at the Mumbai test match versus India that I was at. They were all over the stadium and in all the city hotspots. They applauded good cricket, enjoyed the Mumbai experience and… Read more »
Wankhede memories: From a fairy tale to a gut punch
There are about 3000 seats at the Wankhede stadium which are fully exposed to the brutish Mumbai sun for much of an afternoon. Not even the thousands of English men and women who were in Mumbai on a cricket pilgrimage dared to occupy those seats thru the days of the Mumbai test. Outside of those… Read more »
Something fishy about Cricinfo’s report on moving CL T20 to South Africa
A few things don’t jive well with me on the recent announcement and Cricinfo’s report that the Champions’ league T-20 tournament for 2012 is likely to be moved to South Africa from India. While the reports only said this was a proposal, this looks like a done deal to me. I anticipate an announcement in… Read more »
Ranking and rating IPL 5 television commentary and commentators
Shard Ugra has a post up on Cricinfo reviewing the 2012 edition of the IPL. It is a great summary post where she acknowledges the increase in crowds and the improvement in the quality of cricket in this edition. She is also however accurately critical of the TV coverage of the event. She points out… Read more »
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