The Pavilion View of Cricket

Chanced upon a different kind of one day XI on Will Luke's 'The Corridor' . It is not the best XI or the most successful XI. It ...

..when I am down to writing a blog post away from live television even as the final stages of a game no less than a Cricket World Cup final ...

We are into the lunch break of the 2007 Cricket World Cup final . Even if the break were to be of 10 hours instead of ten minutes I would be...

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...

Since waking in the morning I wanted to carry out a stats study of the three best bowlers and four best batsmen from each of the finalists t...

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

You are on a week long all-expenses-paid trip to the Hawaiian islands. You wake up on the 5th morning at Honolulu only to get a message from...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...