The Pavilion View of Cricket

Disappointed at the tame end to the 3rd Test with South Africa, and also sensing some upheavals on personal / professional front, I made thi...

I am not referring to India's thrilling 1 run win defending 190. I stopped short of stating a cliched "yet another comeback from M...

"This looks so familiar.... - India plays the best Test opposition available on earth. - At close of 3rd day of 3rd Test little sepa...

Indian batsman VVS Laxman scored 38 and 96 in the Durban Test , thus totalling 134 runs in the Durban Test. In the process he helped his tea...

The quote below, amongst all I have read in past 5 years that praise or criticise him, best sums up the single biggest quality that defines ...

Instance 1: Robin Jackman was discussing a replay of Ishant's reprieve last nite (3rd day close of play of Ind-vs-SA 1st Test at Centuri...

Reproducing a Facebook conversation with my friend Bikash Tewari: Bikash: wht do u feel , india has any chance in this test, in my view t...

Reproducing my Facebook wall post: "India 292/2 in 82 overs after NZ's 193 all out...When will the Indians ever dominate if not i...

I just read an interesting article by Rudi Webster on 'the psychology of cheating' , including possible ways to encourage integrity ...

Breaking news: Sehwag made a trip to a new planet today. It is called 'scoring 2 runs in 21 balls'. Amazingly he survived his stay i...

  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...