The game we all love, however
Cricket is a game that is played amongst a handful of teams and rightly so. It must stay that way probably forever. It is implicit that with only a few teams playing the game, every game remains competitive most of the time. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. There are far too many instances …
Recently, there were lot of criticism heaped upon the England cricket team for their decision to rest certain players during different legs of their Indian tour. Though there is some reasoning behind such criticism, it is not difficult to understand the logic behind such a decision. Infact, this is much needed in such uncertain times. …
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Ian Chappell, the former Australian captain and an excellent commentator and thinker of the game, has opined that the switch hit will have to be banned from the game. He has raised some valid points about which we will discuss. More than the switch hit, it is the free hit that needs immediate review and …
On the 27th of November 2020 and on the 29th of November 2020, a couple of limited over games were played in two different time zones. One was a T20 and the other was a ODI. A day after, a couple of beautiful pieces were published in the most wonderful cricket website, www.espncricinfo.com. One was …
The pandemic has thrown every sporting event out of the window. It has made every sporting nation not only be remain cautious but to innovate new methods just to ensure the safety of the players and everyone else involved in organising a sporting series. Bio-secure bubble is one such thing. However, the bio-secure bubble seems …
Holding gets support for his ranting about the BLM movement. A few days ago, Holding had berated the English, Australian & Pakistani teams for not taking a knee during the recently concluded series. Now he seems to have found support from a couple of players. He has as well, faced opposition from another player. Hopefully, …
Michael Holding, who is certainly among the greatest of fast bowlers the game has ever seen, has come up with a bizarre accusation against the England, Pakistan and Australian teams for not bending the knee before every game in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Yes, the Black Lives Matter movement started because of …
After months of absolutely no action anywhere in the world, England vs West Indies series has come has a breadth of fresh air for cricket fans all over the world. World No. 8 taking on World No. 4 in their own country will from the outside not motivate everyone to follow the series. England, eventhough …
T20 cricket. Let me at the very outset clarify that I am not a great fan of T20 cricket. Having said that, I will watch T20 if India is playing. Apart from that, I do not watch T20 regularly. This means that I certainly do not follow IPL or Big Bash or any of the …
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This morning, I read an interesting article in Espncricinfo where Steve Bucknor, the umpire the entire country is terrified of when we hear that name has said that his mistake might have cost the Indian team the 2008 Sydney Test. He has admitted that he made two mistakes in that game. One was the aforementioned …