The Pavilion View of Cricket

This is cricinfo’s statistical reflection on a much-discussed failing of Tendulkar. Essentially it highlights Tendla's diminishing run ...

Meet Kevin Mitchell , an endangered species - an English sports writer / ex player with some nice words to say about the sub continent's...

[This post was compiled nearly four weeks back but somehow I managed to defer pressing the 'publish' button.] Now we know the guy th...

Hi friends! It is quite a while since we had a chat - on matters non-cricketing! Although I am a thorough Roger Federer admirer for precise...

"The second season is usually considered to be the toughest for an international batsman: opposing teams build up a database on his str...

Greg Blewett was a batsman of calibre and grace. One look at him trading his stuff and you would nod in appreciation of sighting a quality p...

"I had confidence in Mashrafe [Mortaza]. To me, he is the best batsman in the team.." - Shahadat Hossain. Exactly what I wondered...

Hi! I hope you still remember me. I can list a few reasons that have been keeping me away from regular blogging over the past month. Some of...

BCCI woke up like Kumbhkarn in the Ramayana (too late, that is) and declared they would be taking drastic steps. Soon they realised that the...

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 ...