The Pavilion View of Cricket

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Let's count Yuvi: 30, 29, 28...

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Here's a bit of great news : Yuvraj Singh 's response to chemotherapy has left his medical team "fairly confident" that ...
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Cricket book reco

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Do you love books? Do you love cricket? Then cricinfo has an article for you .

Kohli Yug (Screengrabs)

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I am yet to get over Virat Kohli's batsmanship in the Hobart ODI last month. Now we already have his killer touch again in the Mirpur w...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Player#207

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Rahul Dravid received the Test cap#207 for India. Considering we have 206 bones in our skeleton, all of us can consider his legacy to live ...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Take a Dravid Test

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Want to know why RD is rated as highly as he is? Take this test . I can't forget the words of admiration for Dravid that came up o...

Staying at the Top [repost from old DS blog on cricinfo]

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This is an old post. I made the original post way back on 4th December 2005 at cricinfo's now defunct blog "Different Strokes...

Dravid: Tributes on his retirement

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What should we call him? The Wall? For the protection he offers to our middle order gods? The 'Away man', for his prowess i...
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My personal tribute to Dravid: a collection of my Dravid posts on Pavilion view & other blogs

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"FB has been prompting me to switch over to its 'timeline' version of status update. After today I have no choice...my Wall h...
Sunday, March 04, 2012

Some kids love ground fielding

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Kids in my neighbourhood spontaneously practicing ground fielding.... http://purbachal-cluster-2. blogspot.in/2012/03/cluster-2- budding-...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

The tall Small

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Watch this . And before you share it: the guy is called Bevan Small.  He is not small but tall. To me. He might not do anything better ...
Monday, January 09, 2012

The "50/100 openers' rule"

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‎ 80 years of playing Test cricket, and Indians still don't understand the basic requirement of scoring big in pitches favouring quicks...
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Sehwag: Should he open again in Tests outside India??

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"Laxman? Gambhir? Dravid? Kohli? Who gets dropped in 3rd Test?" We debate. But why not sehwag?  This series is not in i...

On NOT losing the 1st Test of an away series

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How important is that? In that context, I have always rated that Brisbane'03 century by dada Ganguly (after 90/4) as the 3rd big tur...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The power of nine

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"I respect my wicket a hundred times more now" A profound, nine word Dave Warner mantra for all talented youngsters like Kohl...

Day's play

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Today Sachin was Sachin of old , and Dravid was nowhere like the Dravid of late. Yet Dravid is there at the end of day while Sachin isn'...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Gains for Team India from 2011 Test series vs West Indies @ home

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Gains from WI series: 1) Viru has started getting 2nd innings runs in the 2nd decade of his Test career. 2) Ashwin has stamped his Aussie ...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Test batsmen and spectators bid adieu

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AUs-vs-RSA, 2nd Test, 2nd day at Jo'burg Tahir with Steyn. Top class leg spin with express pace.  Joyous to see both bowlers make ...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Picture Perfect Wall

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In year 2008 and at age 35 this man, Rahul Dravid, was beginning to miss catches which he would grab earlier at slip (and in sleep);  he wa...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Yuvraj problem, and the terrible Neo-specialists

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Bloody Amol Muzumder is now a specialist commentator on Neo, and all they can offer for Yuvi's failure is criticising his technique (wi...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Right up the Wall Street

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Rahul Dravid couldn't have it scripted any better from a personal point of view. For the 8th consecutive time this season India are p...
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