The Pavilion View of Cricket

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Sunday, April 08, 2007

Greg Chappell's parting interview

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Let's hear what Greg Chappell has to say before leaving India. I got the link via Homer and like him I'm making this post more as ...
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Bangla’s conquest & a Protean heel

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Main features of Bangla's win over South Africa : 1) Mohammad Ashraful holding the Bangladesh innings together without losing his own te...
Sunday, April 01, 2007

Unity and Providence

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Master cricket writer Rahul Bhattacharya ends his typically lucid piece on Shiv Chanderpaul's cricket and genes with this observation: ...

When will we learn?

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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 ...

This is the team Haldia wanted

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The Dream Team's ICC has incorporated a few rule modifications in the game. Substitutions, essentially. Needless to explain, it was nec...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

I blink for eight hours and miss it again

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Keeping late nights over the last week took a rather heavy toll on me last night as I fell asleep right on the floor in front of TV sometime...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Maroon versus Yellow

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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 ...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Thou shalt not predict

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A look at that dated screengrab from the DC homepage last Sunday tells you a story about the risks of predicting results in sport. That one...

On deserving luck

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Cricinfo's S Rajesh and HR Gopalakrishna summarise Indian misfortune in yesterday's match on their stats analysis thus: "Sri L...

Dream Team woes continue

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Coming from Dream team angle I have already lost out on a bucketful of points today as the Indian innings reaches the end of an eventful tw...

Trinidad, 23rd march

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Time: Interval of the India-v-Sri Lanka Pool B match When Zaheer bowls a leg-side wide to flag off the match I feel a surge of anger rushi...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Jayawardene I hate you!

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Chris sent us this update of our Dream Team standings after game 13th. I'm seriously considering dropping out of this race . This just...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Indian post-Bermuda worries and music therapy

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India came out to defend 413 after the luncheon break, needing to bowl out Bermuda for a low total in order to keep up with the run rate. Be...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Cricket coaching: being judged on uncontrollables

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Bob Woolmer succumbed to a heart attack following Pakistan's shock defeat to Ireland that led to the former team's World Cup exit. I...
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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Two surprises, that 'upset' two teams

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Yesterday’s results So India lost to Bangladesh and Pakistan to Ireland. India batted way below par at the two ends of their innings and Pak...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

The Sehwag question and Mortaza's visual answer

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" Mashrafe Mortaza to Sehwag , OUT, Gone! Mortaza nails Sehwag! Sehwag's disastrous recent run continues. Perfect offcutter that l...

HG Shells

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On 12th March HG settled The War of the Worlds . Here's his next work, released on 16-Mar-07: A shape of things to come (a.k.a. Bunge t...

Thoughts on upcoming India Bangladesh match

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India play Bangladesh after a long gap; 2 years and 3 months to be reasonably precise. The second last time they played a match India ended...

Gutsy Glovemen

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Where do these wicketkeepers buy their gall from? Many other cricketers have the stuff too but the keepers’ variety looks like a different b...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

P&G

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There's a raging topic of discussion these days: Ponting vs. SunnyG . I am not sure I want to add to it. But today I am on a forced holi...
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