The Pavilion View of Cricket

[ Note: I made this post nearly 2 years back in another blog. The site has since been revamped and the post is nowhere to be seen. I have a...

What was it that allowed that to happen? Was it the extra bounce? Perhaps it was. The extra rise was clearly worked to the advantage by all ...

....no matter who you have at the crease during those overs with whatever number of wickets in hand. Need proof? Have a look at this chart ...

Do you believe in that?? Then perhaps you can't even picture the man I will talk about now as a remotely good one. Look at this !! We re...

But is Dravid India's finest slip fielder as Sambit says? Well for a period in the late 90's I thought he was India's best clos...

Twice in the current decade an Australian Test team has won 16 Tests on the trot only to be stopped by India from winning a 17th. On both oc...

Note: This assessment is unrelated to Hayden's present slump - especially as he is over 37 and on the decline. I pick up the question ra...

The word is used rather generously these days for teams doing well and having a leading light to show for their efforts. In a recent newspap...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...