The Pavilion View of Cricket

On a 2nd day home track designed to their strengths, they lost about 20 wkts for 209 all out. Between them, the 2 openers were virtually di...

Actually that thought, posted as subject line, came to my mind as I was browsing through some old Facebook posts in my profile. I came ac...

What goes up must come down. Likewise whatever gets previewed should also get reviewed - including the preview. Not that it is important to ...

Today a 'friend of friend' on Facebook stated sarcastically that he was 'glad that cricket was played mainly by 8 countries'...

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...

We were jointly watching the cup at my friend's place. Sometime around the 30th over of Indian chase, the spinners were losing control ...

During the Sri Lankan innings, Gambhir chased a ball and made a half-decent attempt to save a boundary off the last ball of the over. He fai...

Anyone out there still likening Zaheer Khan's Cup final performance of 2011 to his performance in 2003? DON'T EVEN!!!!! Zaheer only ...

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...

As expected before the finals, the Indian players are nervously energetic. None of the Indian players has any idea of how the final will ...

The high voltage Ind Pak semifinal match of 2011 World Cup proved that pressure matches can also be played in good spirits. It also fina...

After Nehra's 1st over: Nehra - you must come good. You also got swing in 1st over. C'mon Upon my thoughts going back to Wahab Ri...

"itni shiddat se maine tumhe paane ki koshish ki hai ki har zarre ne mujhe tumse milane ki saazish ki hai.... kehte hai agar k...

Cricinfo's Andy Zaltzman on the main sub-plot of the Indo-Pak WC Semi final: "India’s batsmen now average 74 against Test-oppos...

I seriously believe so...and hence this post is to confirm that I am NOT prepared to write a farewell note on him just as yet.

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...

This is the video link of the famous desert storm innings, Sharjah 1998: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXRkHervQJc&feature=fvwrel In...

[Note: This is a result based analysis - I have not watched the match live and hence cannot comment on its nuances] On South Africa -----...

Here's a compliment for His Gloriousness Yuvraj Singh from the unlikeliest of quarters - cricket comedian Andy Zaltzman. -------------...