The Pavilion View of Cricket

This   is the last straw. I gave away my life-dream in the   previous post   a year back, and wished that post to be my last in Pav...

I have watched matches at Eden Gardens since 1988. Although I have not been remotely as regular a visitor as some other avid cricket buffs...

I always thought I had jussssst a bit of Rahul Dravid in me....and that did me proud. Now I am ecstatic - 'coz I just learnt that Dravi...

I read a friend’s Facebook status post, wondering about the changes we are witnessing  in the Indian team’s performance. To be precise, hi...

Someone has apparently carried out the hard work of collecting people's opinion on the famous sledges that keep making the rounds, and ...

I was going through some of Greg Chappell's articles in The Hindu. They make for intriguing reading, quite far removed from "the g...

Ravi Shastri is selected in BCCI's three member committee for probing spot fixing.  Hope he can fire on all cylinders and drive some tr...

THE MOMENT of IPL-6 just came up in today's Eliminator between Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Delhi play-offs. 38 yr ...

"Manzilein unki hoti hai jinki sapnon mein jaan hoti hai Kyonki pankhon se nahi, hauslon se udaan hoti hai" Sidhu goes overboa...

"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 ...