The Pavilion View of Cricket

Upon the fall of last wicket in the Australian first innings of the 2nd Ind-Aus Test, Cricinfo ended its text commentary on the innings w...

An excerpt of cricinfo's text commentary on a passage of play in session 3, Day 3 of the India-v-Australia 2nd Test at Mohali: 15.3 Sid...

At the end of 3rd day India have taken a lead of 300 runs with all 10 second innings wicket intact. Barring a spectacular collapse inspired ...

I have not seen much of Amit Mishra except in the IPL matches. An inevitable comparison comes up with that other young hope of Indian leg sp...

I had a chat with blogger friend Homer a while ago on the fourth day's proceedings. He thinks Australia are playing for a draw . I do ...

"There used to be a bloke who gave himself out by walking when he'd hit the ball. The popularity of that within his team-mates may ...

What do you think of the coincidence that only the 3 "bad boys" of Greg Chappell in the Indian team -Ganguly, Bhajji & Zaheer ...

When I returned to my apartment in the evening today, the last update I had had of 3rd day's play was that India were 196/6 at tea in re...

Aakash Chopra. If you followed the 2004-05 Indo-Australian away Test series you will remember the sedate opening partner of a rampaging Vire...

Cannot curse my current busy work schedule enough for encroaching upon that 'final frontier' in my personal life: following the last...

The sound of bat whacking ball would have Chandidas Ganguly waking up with a start in the middle of the night, only to find son Sourav batti...

Cricinfo quotes Australian captain Ricky Ponting thus : "Some of the older players are probably looking at this as their last Test seri...

Agree on some points raised by Mukul Kesavan here . Especially that Rahul Dravid is riding his CV, and that we will probably have a sleepy h...

We visited Dakshineswar Kali Temple in the afternoon today. The sun was out full blast. Heated stone-paved floors of the temple complex wer...

Some of the world's topmost woman cricketers are now blogging on the game at cricinfo. We can keep up with them at "Girls Aloud...

Delicious.

I wrote an email to some of my friends a while ago, opining on the ODI all-time batsmen's ranking published by Anantha on It Figures , t...

...to be a great left arm bowler? Not much at all, I believe. " Fifteen Paces " should be enough. Or even less, if we pick Wasim A...

Since the T20 world cup last year I have been trying to make my mind up on the one cricket personality who is / was literally 'born for ...

"Pakistan have to score 2 runs off the last ball to qualify. Indian quickie Samit Dravid charges in and delivers the ball....it's ...