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Oh, England!

July 3, 2015 December 30, 2022

What an entertaining past few months we’ve seen in England! I’d love to have been a fly on the wall, a fly capable of listening to and understanding the doublespeak and management gobbledygook

I was reading about Sunil Narine’s in/out story about his trouble with the arm that bends more than it should and I remembered this post that I wrote for Dipesh – at CricketWise, just as the #CWC15 The ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 was starting. http://cricketwise.blogspot.in/2015/02/the-menace-of-bendy-arm-brigade.html That arm in that…Continue reading→

RIP Richie Benaud

April 10, 2015 December 25, 2022

It’s no secret that Richie Benaud was my first cricket idol. In fact, probably the last idol I ever had of any kind. For as I grew older, I stopped having idols altogether. Richie, thus, remains my first and only idol. I took up legspin becauseof the tales of his…Continue reading→

I told you so!

April 1, 2015 December 30, 2022

Now that #CWC15 is done and dusted and Australia have regained the trophy they lost briefly and the normal order of things has been restored, the experts have started talking about the changes they’d like to see. In posts dating back a few months, I had

#CWC15 – QF 2: IND vs BAN

March 20, 2015 November 20, 2023

A memorable match for Bangladesh, for many reasons, such as their first knockout game at the World Cup (ever) and the robbery under the lights that put their lights out. The second reason will be big news in Bangladesh for a while yet. (If you drive down to Buffalo, NY,…Continue reading→

#CWC15 QF 1: SAF vs SL

March 19, 2015 December 30, 2022

This is the World Cup that started with a bang, with plenty of excitement, some strong showings, and surprises. It then tapered off into a sludge of matches of little or no import. About the only thing left was to see whether Ireland could pip the West Indies and Pakistan…Continue reading→

#CWC15 – Cliches

March 4, 2015 December 30, 2022

This is a World Cup that I have watched after a long time. Watched, as opposed to, followed via ESPNCricinfo.com typed out commentary. I miss my old commentators. On radio, I grew up with Anand Setalvad, Dicky Rutnagur and the like. Setalvad’s voice changed as he built up the excitement. “Bedi…Continue reading→

#CWC15 – Week 2

March 2, 2015 December 25, 2022

What a week! We saw teams trying hard to lose, it seems but failing to do so, we saw a humdinger of a match between the hosts. First let’s the world cup record out of the way. Yes , Chris Gayle got 215. Yes, he got it against Zimbabwe in…Continue reading→

#CWC15 – Ind v SA

February 23, 2015 December 25, 2022

Any dry throats and thumping hearbeats at the start of the game became dryer and thumpier as Rohit left early. With that, the game was afoot, as Holmes used to say, or so we are told by Conan Doyle. This was the other marquee matchup in Pool B, ranking in importance…Continue reading→

NEVER TRUST A CRICKETER

February 21, 2015 December 25, 2022

< A little comic relief before the India vs South Africa match at #WC2015. This was sent to me by a lovely lady who shall remain nameless. Exceptions may be made in the case of those willing to send me a US$10 and a SASE.> Come all ye fair young…Continue reading→

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He can be quite opinionated …. so be warned that some of his opinions may not be warm and fuzzy or follow popular tastes…