The Pavilion View of Cricket

The good, the bad and the ugly of a red ball game

Saturday, October 09, 2021

Waqar & Umran: Kafka's doll story

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Till date, browsing Waqar's bowling videos on youtube remain my top cricket "marham" (refuge). His bowling soul danced in fron...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Farewell, dear MS

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https://mobile.twitter.com/ BCCI/status/ 1148952090989006849 Mahendra Singh Dhoni waited for the slo-mo replay on giant screen with a ...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Post "Big Five Silver Lining", will it be dark once again?

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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...
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Friday, November 08, 2013

Watching Shami Ahmed in the debut of my dreams

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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...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

My alter ego

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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...
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Monday, June 24, 2013

The Great Indian Team Performance Curve: A Thesis

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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...
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Monday, June 03, 2013

20 Greatest Sledges in Cricket

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Someone has apparently carried out the hard work of collecting people's opinion on the famous sledges that keep making the rounds, and ...
Sunday, June 02, 2013

Greg Chappell, the cricket visionary: caring(!!) views on Indian cricket

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I was going through some of Greg Chappell's articles in The Hindu. They make for intriguing reading, quite far removed from "the g...
Friday, May 31, 2013

How about Gurunath getting a 3rd degree called "24 hours of compulsory attention to Shastri's commentary"

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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...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

IPL-6: Moment of the tournament

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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 ...
Monday, May 06, 2013

IPL-6, Rajasthan Royals, Uttar-Dravid, Sanju...and Uttar-Process

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"Manzilein unki hoti hai jinki sapnon mein jaan hoti hai Kyonki pankhon se nahi, hauslon se udaan hoti hai" Sidhu goes overboa...
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013

My Brian

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"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...
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Sunday, December 02, 2012

From Big Boots to Big Gloves

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Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff never ceases to amaze. Retired Test cricketer? Apparently he is a heavyweight boxer now! http://www.espn...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

'Defending beautifully'

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

Simon Taufel: the best umpire I have seen

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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...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

"Waqar essentially just did one thing with the ball"

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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...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

The circle of a day

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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...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

How do we say thanks to personalities like Laxman

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