The Pavilion View of Cricket

2009 is coming to a close. Rahul Dravid chose to play an uncharacteristically racy knock against Sri Lanka in the first Test started today. ...

Cricinfo has started this new and absolutely lovely blog on some memorable snaps of live cricket. Those are from the collection of photogrp...

You are sitting on a couch with your 7th bowl of masala popcorns. It is the final ball of the final session of the final Test match of an un...

As the comments under this 21 year old Harsha Bhogle article on Sachin explain, the republication of this old post has taken back many rea...

For the last few years we are speculating on the decline of Oz from their lofty standards. Much of it is true. "Australian cricket tea...

NDTV were interviewing Lalit Modi and Ravi Shastri on the exciting prospects of Champions' League T20 . Rahul Dravid joined in the inte...

They used to say that South Africa was the deathland for spinners. There were as many good spinners in the SA team of the 90's as there ...

I found some thoroughly enjoyable selections in the eleven greatest XI's in ODI's . Some of the nippy comments made to support the v...

I thought this was a rather sweet rendition of the Indian National Anthem by a South African singer. This guy did another good job some ...

A little over 20 years back, I was dreaming of becoming a national level cricketer some day who could play 70 odd Tests and finish with 300 ...

Do Michael Jeh and me have a common hub to our "cricket thought processes" somewhere? The next post after Dhoni that I was (not su...

Since India's ouster from T20 World Cup I was planning to put up a post on Dhoni. It never materialised. I thank Michael Jeh ( Different...

[ 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...