The Pavilion View of Cricket

These well-intended warm up games ahead of the World Cup are proving to be dampeners.... " Ire on fire, makes no. 1 dance on a wire ...

If you are a cricket lover and have a history of slipping into the odd bout of dejection like most fellow mortals, save this link. You can ...

Have a look at this S Rajesh analysis of best individual and team performances with the new ball in ODI's since Jan 2006. India rank ra...

Sean M? (,) armed with a curiously query-ous surname, has understandably asked himself a few questions on batsmen's ball reading abiliti...

Kumara Sangakkara puts his money on ageing greats conjuring up one final blast this World Cup before walking into the sunset. A unique Worl...

Quite a few interesting words have been mouthed by cricketers during the past fortnight, none better than Sujith Somasundar's excellent ...

( continued from previous post ) No, if you ask me. There's another level of adversity to be added to that stat. Those averages cover A...

Yuvraj Singh averages 84 in SUCCESSFUL run chases above 275 . Dravid and Ganguly are the only others in his team that average 50+ in simila...

What, you may ask, is happening to the world leaders? Hayden scores 181 and yet ends up on the losing side. The world's top team is whi...

"Fernando to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, Caressed away for a six! Full and drifting down leg side, Yuvraj leans forward and flicks it away. Up, ...

If you have a mean streak about you And love to keep it a secret too If you resist a chuckle at others' misfortunes Only when risk of i...

is up . Told you about my latent poetic talent..... Other collaborative WC'07 previews on DC: West Indies Sri Lanka New Zealand England ...

Can you guess the REAL reason behind India's performances during the past year or so? Sunil Shinde presents you the truth.

As mentioned in my ball no. 4 here I checked out on cricinfo records for India-v-Australia ODIs from the current decade . India, it turns o...

Six unrelated thoughts from Sunday’s cricket watching: 0.1 Harbhajan Singh bowled Dilshan off a doosra in the Rajkot ODI today and straigh...

Our friend Desicritics sports editor Huzaifa has called for a group preview of the upcoming Cricket World Cup. We plan to take up one team...

...are here . Well you can only judge these transcripts on your gut feeling - there is little else for backup as yet. I am inclined to go ah...

When Sachin Tendulkar went to the dais to receive the Man of the Series trophy for his sterling contribution in the series win against the ...

A TV news headline today screams: "Exclusive: Rahul Dravid had insisted on retaining Sehwag in the XI for the Cape Town Test regardless...

Our friend Scribbler declares " Tendulkar and Ganguly must open ". I look around and expect no protest even from a million miles. ...