The Pavilion View of Cricket

"I just want that someone in their 50s or 60s, when they talk about Brian Lara, they say `I enjoyed watching that guy playing cricket...

Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff never ceases to amaze. Retired Test cricketer? Apparently he is a heavyweight boxer now! http://www.espn...

"Never seen anyone defend so beautifully," says Sambit Bal on Sunil Gavaskar at cricinfo's Legends of Cricket. Against bes...

Till about half an hour back, I did not even know that Simon Taufel has retired from international duties. More than me, the media and spo...

When Wasim & Waqar were in their playing days,  I used to hang around in a group of late teens / early 20's chaps who were more at...

In the morning this daily quote flashed up on my office desktop as I booted up the comp: “Nothing in the world can take the place of p...

‎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 ...