The game we all love, however
The performance or non-performance of the once famous team, Chennai Super Kings during the 2020 IPL has raised lot of questions. The primary being the fact that most of the team members were over 35. A couple above 40 or nearing 40. This is not the age to be playing T20 cricket where reflex, power …
The selection is a young player, the omission of a relatively older one and the question mark over the effectiveness of an allrounder is rather interesting in both the Indian and Australian squads for the limited overs series. This article is about Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya. Suryakumar Yadav There have been lot …
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The Indian limited overs squad for the Australian tour was also announced on the same day when the test squad was announced. After the 2019 World Cup debacle where India was expected to reach the final if not win the cup, the Indian limited overs team is fairly settled. Number 4, 5 and Number 6 …
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The Indian squad for the Australian tour that starts towards the middle of November has been announced. It is more or less predictable but there are some unanswered questions and some selections that raises quite a few questions and some omissions that has found no mention anywhere. Let us analyse the squad indepth. The Test …
In this analysis, let us look at a couple of recent comments made by former England cricketers. One by David Lloyd. The other by none other than the magnificent commentator, Sir Geoffrey Boycott which is about Bairstow opening and Boycott accusation. Bairstow’s numbers Johnny Bairstow has been playing for England for about 8 years though …
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 …
It is confirmed that India tour of Australia will go ahead. The series consists of 3 ODIs, 2 T20S and 4 Tests. The tour at one point was extremely doubtful because of the strict quarantine rules put forward by the Queensland state government. With no end in sight, Cricket Australia turned towards New South Wales. …
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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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