The Pavilion View of Cricket

  Take a great modern Test batsman (i.e. someone with avg easily over 50 plus) Strip his Test stats of ALL "fair weather" runs ...

Sneaked into cricinfo today to check the latest on the silly Randiv no-ball controversy - more precisely to check if Sangakkara was involve...

Highest numbers by various 'couples' in recent history - Those were the days, RD...

Munaf Patel is being flown in to replace Ishant Sharma in the tri nation ODI tourney at SL. Reason: Ishant is struggling with a knee injur...

Purpose of this post:  Stating a closing argument against the malpractice of deriding Murali's achievements in comparison to Warne's...

"Can't you just speed it up a little bit, because we struggle to fit it into the super slow-mo replays." Rudi Koertzen gets s...

This post has some usual ROTFL lines (especially on Zaltzman's fave Kamran). Typical Zaltzman....and a bit more than that. It's lik...

[Click for LARGER view] The gallant man from Sri Lankan army left no choice, after playing an unforgettable innings of 78 as the Lankan num...

Is it possible that Rahul stumbled upon the last "Pavilion View" blogpost? After painstaking innings in the first two Tests, a new...

I sent an sms to some of my friends on today, the 4th morning of 3rd Ind-SL test at the P Sara stadium. I started keying into my non-qwerty...

Steve Waugh was asked during his recent India visit if the Indian Test side deserved to be ranked number 1 even as it is struggling to bag 2...

Here's  Andew Hughes' fun take on the Aussie cricketers' own rules of the sport. Besides enjoying the humour, many of us would a...

Afridi has done it again - from being the Pakistan Test skipper, he has retired from Test cricket after the 1st Test of a 3-Test series. T...

This post aims to clear a few 'Murali' cobwebs and let the sunshine come in at the time when this great cricketer most deserves it -...

A nephew asked me this question on Facebook. His personal take was that Murali could have continued as he had more to offer. This is alway...

This video shows how a sixteen year old Sachin spoke in front of TV in 1989, just before international cricket happened to him. And this ...

Some weeks back I clicked this picture with a cellcam while waiting at my daughter's skating classes. This plant had an interesting arr...

Peter Roebuck writes a piece on Jayasuriya who rose above himself as a batsman but never added the negatives that people often inbibe in th...

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...