The Pavilion View of Cricket

Someone has apparently carried out the hard work of collecting people's opinion on the famous sledges that keep making the rounds, and ...

Heaven. A cold morning of early January 2011. God sips coffee early in the morning and checks his mailbox. He was out of office for the D...

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was part of the previous Indian world cup (2007) team that was eliminated early. He, in fact, was integrally involved i...

Who won the WORLD CUP since its inception (barring 1983, which was won by India)? 1) West Indies (1975, 1979)..& defeated in India...

This is the 376th post in this blog. Hold your congratulations - I am concentrating on surpassing Lara's 400 right now.. Wish me luck!...

Have a look at these pictures...can't imagine that I never visited these pages of cricinfo till today. I loved the pics and that is why...

I am not referring to India's thrilling 1 run win defending 190. I stopped short of stating a cliched "yet another comeback from M...

Aakash Chopra. If you followed the 2004-05 Indo-Australian away Test series you will remember the sedate opening partner of a rampaging Vire...

Side 1: Amit Varma raises his voice, defending both the quality of cricket and the money in it. Purists – and I used to think of myself as...

If I remember correctly I had tagged this Siddhartha Vaidyanathan piece, revealing the true magnitude of effort coming from Railways player...

Rahul Dravid’s decision not to enforce a follow-on allowed England to escape with a draw in the last Test. But it is amazing, the Indian med...

"If bowled deliberately there cannot be a more cowardly action on a cricket field; if bowled accidentally it is still potentially letha...

Hi friends! It is quite a while since we had a chat - on matters non-cricketing! Although I am a thorough Roger Federer admirer for precise...

Hi! I hope you still remember me. I can list a few reasons that have been keeping me away from regular blogging over the past month. Some of...

BCCI woke up like Kumbhkarn in the Ramayana (too late, that is) and declared they would be taking drastic steps. Soon they realised that the...

What do you do when the Biggest Cricket Match in four years starts off 2½ hours late? Regale yourself with gems from cricinfo text commenta...

Disclaimer: All characters in the story are fictional. Any similarity with anyone living or dead is purely coincidental. ------------------...

Inzamam poured his heart out at a press conference yesterday and urged the Pakistan media to first sort out the right way to support their ...

The Dream Team's ICC has incorporated a few rule modifications in the game. Substitutions, essentially. Needless to explain, it was nec...

The colours of West Indies and Australia , scheduled to meet in the first Super 8 match today, remind me of an old joke. I hope all of you ...