What an absolute disaster! For England. To be fair to England, I did not expect them to win, for I do not expect them to do well in this World Cup. Of course, history tells us that the last time England made it to the final was in 1992, in…Continue reading→
Cricket by LeggieLefty
Devoted to Leggielefty’s chats about his all-consuming passion for cricket.
He can be quite opinionated …. so be warned that some of his opinions may not be warm and fuzzy or follow popular tastes…
The Summer Game
<This article first appeared in sloword.wordpress.com. Given the abject surrender by England yesterday, I thought it may be pertinent to read what I had written almost a year ago. You can read the original here> I read this article by Jonathan Agnew and was struck by it’s smarmy tone. As…Continue reading→
WC2015 – Two big matches already
It’s been a strange first week at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 edition. Two of the biggest matches have already been completed. Australia beat England, to no one’s surprise and then India beat Pakistan, to no Indian’s surprise. I must confess a slight feeling of doubt. Oh no, not about England…Continue reading→
Bats, batsman, batting
Folks keep coming over to read this on a regular basis. They come here because they’re searching for the answer to the question: “Can I use mustard oil to season a cricket bat”. The answer is very simple. Please, do yourself a favour and don’t even think about it. Your…Continue reading→
How to bat
Your way through this blog. It’s really very simple. Check the offside menu (if right handed) or leg side menu (if left handed). All posts are categorized as either: Opinions: Where I talk about radical new ideas for improving the game, selling it in new markets, provide personally viewpoints on…Continue reading→
#WC2015 kicks off
5-0 so far, but February 15th, 2014 is another day, another match, another team in another country. A country that has not been too kind to Indian cricket teams. Though, in recent years, despite the 4-0 a few years ago, Indians have shown some fight. Even the recent 2-0 was…Continue reading→
A spell at last
3 or 4 years later, <after this story> I was in Canada, far removed from cricket. A chance remark by a friend at dinner found me searching out a cricket club in Canada. Their first question “Do you keep wickets?” “No, I don’t , but I bat a bit and…Continue reading→
Forward Defensive
< This is a continuation of an earlier post written many, many months ago. Why has it taken so long to get to this one? Well, TheLastWord outranks me in the office and he was off writing about trips to Nepal and France. This gave no one else a word…Continue reading→
Death on the cricket field
Phil Hughes is dead. He died from a brain injury caused by a vertebral artery dissection. The dissection was caused by a cricket ball bowled by Sean Abbott. He was 25, just a few days from his 26th birthday. Sean Abbott is 22, 3 months short of 23.
ek glo! Despite you, Hansie!
Almost exactly 3 years ago, LeggieLefty wrote this ode to cricket. At that time three young men had been sent to jail for “spot-fixing”, predetermined outcomes within a match. Today’s news is that the one N Srinivasan has been named in a corruption scandal. At the time he was the…Continue reading→
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