The Pavilion View of Cricket

The good, the bad and the ugly of a red ball game

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

And then it strikes him

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Let us go 20 years down the line. It is year 2026. You just got introduced to FutureFan, an average new age cricket lover of the time in a c...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

CK

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We love Sunny Gavaskar. If only he could weed out a few yawning draws from his resume.... We love everything about Sachin and Kapil. Wait...
Monday, October 16, 2006

Dirty Harry can't find his sixth bullet

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This article made for nice reading. Ian Chappell finds interesting similarities of the top six men that matter in each of the major Champio...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

The smaller but deeper worries

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There was a time when 600 plus runs in an innings were a norm in Indian domestic first class matches. As much as a reflection on the pitches...
Monday, October 09, 2006

A thought on Mufambisi

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There's a saying in some language: every person has a replica in this world . You may have heard of that. There's another saying tha...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

"It won't leave much for the highlights film"

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Love the way John Stern sums up a growing need to recreate fast bowling magic. Going through this list of interesting cricket facts on 123...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Sanjay Bangar

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Some cricketers have all the luck. They get extra chances, extra facilities, extra media attention, extra fan following and the utterly forg...
Thursday, October 05, 2006

The Psychos

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" Who writes your scripts? " asked Graham Gooch to Ian Botham once. Well, who writes theirs ? Update: I bet you thought you woul...

How do we keep THEM?

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Amidst stars old and new, shining and falling, promising and delivering, the performance of wicketkeepers of each of the three “ India ”s pa...
Monday, October 02, 2006

The men with a knockout punch

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When the going gets tough the tough get going, they say. What can be tougher in one day cricket than a knockout match? The next knockout mat...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

I C C-rious connotations

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There was a sense of rejoice in learning that Inzamam-ul-Haq got a light rap on the knuckles by ICC for ‘bringing the game to disrepute’ but...

King Cricket talks about Prince of Cricket

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Get a feel of Brian's 501 n.o. here .
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Born to make history

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This one's for the ages. When Sachin Tendulkar retires he is going to be associated with zillions of cricketing records. As with so many...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

When losing the plot comes with a clot

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There can be n number of ways a captain can lose his head while playing a crunch game. Pic 10 of this series records one of them.
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Friday, September 22, 2006

Greg Chappell the great ODI all rounder

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Did you know that besides being an all time great batsman the Indian cricket coach is quite Viv Richards-like in qualifying as one of the to...
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Thursday, September 21, 2006

D L F?

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In other words, D id L ara F alter as a captain by batting himself, the best batsman, at number nine in yesterday's nail-biter of a run...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

It's how you field and bowl, dears

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You score over 300 runs and lose comfortably. Next time you set 163 and win against the same team playing with 9 batsmen, a keeper and a sp...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

He is back

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...and across, and forward. He's everywhere on the bowlers' minds. And he's magnificent as usual. Pssssst....... he's back ...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

It doesn't get bigger than this...except the hype

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Every new cricket series brings with it the next level in marketing of the game. I do not expect to be charged with overstatement for statin...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Those moments of motion frozen in time...

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....are what sports photography is all about. You look at the celebrities and their supporters here ..... ....A few young men enfolded b...
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