The game we all love, however
This week I have quite a few things to report. India perhaps have unearthed a fast bowler in Umraan Malik. David Warner was not treated well by his franchise. James Anderson training his sights on the biggest scalp in the Australian team. How was the cricketing world last week? Let me start with Anderson training …
I just want to continue with this series in providing news from around the cricketing world 2. I want to concentrate on the important news and pass a little bit of judgement. England players are close to agreeing to tour Australia for the Ashes. However, travel within Australia is confusing. Dhoni may finally retire from …
Ashwin was involved in one other controversy. Virat Kohli has resigned T20 captaincy. Indian selectors will shortly be involved in choosing a captain for that format alone. Ravi Shastri’s tenure is likely to come to an end. IPL is throwing up some serious talent. This post is about news from around the Indian cricket world. …
Cricket at the Olympics Cricket is a sport that is played amongst a handful of nations. It is rather a lengthy game in that even the shortest format, lasts for more than 3 hours. A lot of other games takes less than 50% of that time. As such, cricket can never be a global sport. …
Mental health is a real problem. Far too many sportspersons are succumbing to that. It is not just cricketers but it seems to affect people from other sports too. The pandemic is not helping either. Infact, it has exacerbated the problem. It is time the authorities wake upto the realities of mental health and prepares …
If you are given an option of watching 2 batsmen bat. One who is exceptionally sedate and he is scoring at 22 and the other who is extremely aggressive and is scoring at over 75, which batsman would you pay to watch? Let us assume that this is the first or the second day of …
The ICC have announced that the 2027 and 2031 ODI World Cup will consist of 14 teams and the 2024, 2026, 2028 & 2030 T20 World Cup will be expanded to 20 teams. Also, New Zealand and England have begun their series with Conway scoring a double hundred. I will write my thoughts about expanded …
Asia Cup, the only multi-team cricket tournament in Asia is again postponed to 2023. It is a much maligned tournament. There have been lot of instances when one of India or Pakistan have skipped the tournament for various reasons. Sri Lanka is the only team to have participated in all the editions. India are the …
Three cricket boards across the world are in the news over the last few days. They are the Australian board, the English board and the South African board. All of them are for different reasons. Some makes sense and some does not really. The Australian cricket board The ACB have ringed in changes in the …
Just ask yourself, who is the only current batsman who is averaging more than 50 in all formats of the game? Next one. Who is the only current batsman who has scored more than 10,000 runs in ODIs? Who held a record 43 weeks as the number one batsman in the world in the ODIs? …
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