The Pavilion View of Cricket

‎2008.  IPL 1st season player bidding.  5 Indian cricketers are declared as icon players by their respective 5 teams (icon player to...

Cannot resist sharing these 2 paragraphs I just read in Ed Smith's tribute to our Rahul Dravid: ------------------------------ - I la...

I would like to get a statistic from Google blogger: Exactly what percentage of my total posts on PV have involved either one or more of I...

In a few minutes from the time this post gets published, we shall celebrate the 40th birthday of Sourav Ganguly. The change agent of Team I...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

What should we call him? The Wall? For the protection he offers to our middle order gods? The 'Away man', for his prowess i...

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

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

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 ...

‎ 80 years of playing Test cricket, and Indians still don't understand the basic requirement of scoring big in pitches favouring quicks...

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

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...

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

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'...

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 ...