The game we all love, however
I have tried as much as possible to resist my urge to write about IPL because, first, I do not consider IPL as a tournament and second, T20 is not proper cricket. However, the events over the last couple of days has made me want to write about IPL and especially, about the Chennai Super …
Over the last 4 days, a couple of interesting things happened in the cricketing universe. However, only one of them seems to have captured the viewers imagination whereas the other doesn’t seem to have bothered that many outside of Australia. First, we will discuss about Dinesh Karthik and then we will come to the much …
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This is part three of the 4-part series that evaluates the lack of success that the BCCI is. Please do go through the first part and second part before proceeding with this one. In the first part, I had given a brief of how rich The Board of Control for Cricket in India is. An …
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This is part two of the 4-part series that evaluates the lack of success that the BCCI is. Please do go through the first part before proceeding with this one. In this, I will talk about BCCI greed for money and lack of facilities. In the first part, I had given a brief of how …
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The Indian tour of Australia towards the end of this year, is quite significant in more ways than one. Not only will it bring back international cricket back to Australia but it promises to be watched by a good number of audience which will mean that the Australian board will be much happier because of …
It is not that easy to describe the importance of the South African Cricket Team for world cricket. They are alongwith Australia the most competitive team in the world. Any games that involves South Africa against an opponent of equal calibre will always be good to watch. Games in the 90s and 2000s between Australia …
Ashwin should not have warned Finch. An interesting scene happened in The IPL between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals. Ashwin who is now famous for running out Buttler in last year’s IPL at the non-striker’s end, did not runout Aaron Finch in that game. Instead, he just stopped bowling, looked at Aaron Finch and …
Let us discuss about the fact that Broad supports pay-cut for the players. It is a fact that the entire world is living in the midst of a terrible pandemic. It has left thousands all over the world jobless and a few millions receiving reduced pay. Almost everyone, from the richest of the rich to …
It is a fact that South African cricket is in the crossroads. Off late, there are lot of news coming out of South Africa and most of them are negative. A few weeks ago, there was the controversy regarding the comments made by Lungi Ngidi regarding the Black Lives Matter movement and the opposition from …
The Number Four Conundrum. The Indian One Day team for a very longtime, were trying to find a player who will come in after Rohit Sharma, Dhawan & Kohli. They were looking for a player who will be able to score freely if the top 3 had set a wonderful platform or he will be …
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