The Pavilion View of Cricket

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Centuries galore

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I had gone past the part on the report on 3rd day's play at cricinfo which said Kevin Pietersen had just scored his 15th Test ton but I ...

The Never Never Land of Virender Pan

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Excerpt from Rohit Mahajan's article on Virender Sehwag (courtesy cricinfo's Surfer ) which attempts to dissect 'Sehwagism'...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008

The wall's papers

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Half of us are waiting for those, and the other half too have started accepting that the papers will come sooner rather than later. For vali...
Saturday, November 08, 2008

Dravid on Laxman's special 100

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What is intriguing about this article ? The fact that it was written in the midst of a crucial test match which could see a change of suprem...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Wanted: Umpires with no affinity for showbiz

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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...

Sehwag's straight bat

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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...

Test of Dhoni's Test character begins at lunchtime, 4th day

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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 ...

Amit's noble feat, and its undesirable but certain fallout

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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...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Predicting Australia's strategy on the 5th day

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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 ...

When walking is not fun

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"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 ...

The half-evil power of 3 on Day 3

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

The 'First' Gap to bridge with Australia

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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...

Risk it on pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again

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

Aussie wicketkeeping A.G.....and B.G

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Cannot curse my current busy work schedule enough for encroaching upon that 'final frontier' in my personal life: following the last...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Lesson on 'Never say die'

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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...

Lessons that will not be learnt

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Cricinfo quotes Australian captain Ricky Ponting thus : "Some of the older players are probably looking at this as their last Test seri...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

When will we be looking forward to a Test series again?

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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...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

The Deity and the Idol

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We visited Dakshineswar Kali Temple in the afternoon today. The sun was out full blast. Heated stone-paved floors of the temple complex wer...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Girls Aloud

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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...

Write men in the wrong end of a game of cricket

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Delicious.
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