‘Cricket’ Archives
A Mismatch To Be Remembered!
Billed as the contest of the year, this Test series will instead go down as the biggest anti-climax in the history of cricket. There is not a champion side that has taken such a beating as India, just short of leaving them gasping for breath in every match, nay every session. Meanwhile, staking their claim to be the best side in the world never [...]
How did Indian bowling get so poor?
We marvel in the genius of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman. Our fathers swore by Sunil Gavaskar, Gundappa Viswanath, Dilip Vengsarkar and Mohammad Azharuddin. Their fathers thought as much about Vijay Manjrekar and Vijay Hazare. In all these years if the myriad generations of cricket lovers in this country have been united in praise [...]
The Ghost Hundred
To see is to believe. Quite literally perhaps, for that must be the main reason why Adam Gilchrist’s thunderous hundred in the 2007 World Cup final against Sri Lanka was proclaimed the best-ever knock in the quadrennial event by Castrol Index Ratings. Other notable contenders included Aravinda De Silva’s match-winning hundred in the 1996 event [...]
IPL 4 – New Rules, New Game
Kolkata Knight Riders’ owner Shah Rukh Khan says the new player auction rules for the fourth season of the IPL in 2011, are somewhat unfair, and that all players should go into the pool. You can almost understand his pain. Three years of bragging about his team in front of the whole wide world and he has won squat so far. Now, finally, that he [...]
Is Sachin’s favorite ton really his best knock?
A cricket career that spans twenty years and consists of ninety three tons at the highest level of the game is like a sumptuous buffet. If any one particular dish – a hundred in this case – doesn’t suit your taste buds, there is always the next one to savor. There are the classic cuisines – ground out in the gruesome Test arena – and the [...]
England win 2010 ICC T20 World Cup
England ended a run of 35 years without winning a global tournament with a seven-wicket victory over their oldest rivals Australia in the final of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 in Barbados. They did so in fine style, restricting a powerful Australian batting line-up to a score of 147 for six and with Craig Kieswetter hitting 63 and Kevin [...]
Three reasons to be happy about India’s T20 World Cup exit
Hardly four days have passed since India’s painful exit from the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean and we have heard all kinds of sinister stories on TV channels and leading newspapers of the country. Unfit players, fitter coaches, unruly skipper, pub brawls, torn t-shirts and quiet flights back home have some how ironically overshadowed that [...]
Suresh Raina to lead India in Zimbabwe
Suresh Raina will lead India on their limited overs tour of Zimbabwe, which is scheduled to begin in June. Raina leads a side without a number of high-profile players who have been rested - regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior players Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra will not be [...]
2010 IPL: Team of the Tournament
While the world casts one eye on the ICC World Twenty20 in the Caribbean, due to begin in the next couple of days, the other eye needs to look back at the 2010 season of the Indian Premier League one last time before it is consigned to the has-been books. Here we look at the first eleven of this season’s Indian Premier League. Openers: [...]
2010 IPL Diary: Why Mumbai Indians lost
Mumbai’s dropped catches were cancelled away by the run-out chances missed by the Chennai Super Kings, and that is how the game of cricket proceeds. Many believe that withholding Kieron Pollard is the one main reason why Mumbai Indians went down in the IPL finals, a match they were widely expected to win. It is true he came out to bat a bit [...]
