The game we all love, however
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 …
Before you continue with the fall of the West Indian empire, I would encourage you to read the rise of their empire. Once the golden era was over, West Indies cricket started to disintegrate. In the beginning, it was mild and as days and months progressed, the pace quickened and it ended in a drastic …
West Indian cricket. The very mention conjures memories of the great fast bowlers who came out of those disparate islands. They also produced great batsmen in the form of Vivian Richard, Clive Lloyd, Brian Lara, the 3 Ws and a host of others. Richards still remains the only international captain who had captained for a …
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 …
West Indies are getting ready to for a bumper season with games against South Africa, Australia and Pakistan. In most of the games, they infact start as the favourites. This is something the West Indies are not used to in recent years. All the games promises to be closely fought contests. Mind games have already …
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 …
The mere mention of West Indies conjures images of 4 giant fast bowlers pounding the ball at ferocious pace targeting the ribs and the head of the batsmen. Almost all the batsmen, throughout the world dreaded the thought of facing upto such a brilliant pace attack. If the West Indian bowlers were menacing for 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 …
Among the players who had retired in the recent past, if there was one player who the world community would like to see return to the game, who will it be? Who was that one player almost everyone thought had retired a few years too early? It will be, the one and only, the multi-talented …