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 »
Posts Categorized: Indian abroad
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 »
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 »
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 »
Rajdeep Sardesai – Bad tweet, Worse reaction
At around 9:30 AM IST on Saturday, Rajdeep Sardesai (Editor-in-chief IBN 18 network) said this on his Twitter account – while Namo travels the country, my Nemo needs to be taken for a walk in the park! Different folks, different priorities! Enjoy the weekend. — Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) February 8, 2014 Rajdeep has 1.3 Million… Read more »
Seven questions ahead of IPL 7 auction
Cricinfo’s Nagraj Gollapudi provides us some insight into what the select cavalcade of rich Indian businessmen are thinking up and thinking of ahead of the next edition of cricket’s most lucrative league and tournament. Based on this article and other tidbits that have been revealed about IPL 7 so far, here are seven questions I… Read more »
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