Category: Cricket

  • Blast from the past

    A conversation with Ojas from today morning.

    Amit Kumar Goyal says:
    http://cricketuncut.blogspot.com/2005/09/collossus-shuffling-towards-painful.html
    Ojas Sabnis says:
    who is this?
    Amit Kumar Goyal says:
    check out the post first – group blog
    Ojas Sabnis says:
    hmm
    Ojas Sabnis says:
    opening
    Ojas Sabnis says:
    amit varma and company.. i see
    Amit Kumar Goyal says:
    yeah – and reading the post, you got the same feeling abt Tendulkar some time back, and yet see how Haydos has come back (20-20 WC), and Sachin himself seems to be on the recovery trail
    Ojas Sabnis says:
    true

  • Daily WTF

    Can someone please explain as to why Agarkar and Yuvraj were bowled today, instead of Irfan Pathan?

    [tags] Cricket, T20 WorldCup, India, New Zealand[/tags]

  • India in England

    The Good: India in tests. Tendulkar, in sublime touch and his responses to the decisions against him, from the disbelief to the smile, priceless. Kevin Pietersen in the first test. Vaughn in the second. Kumble in the third, with the bat. Mascarenhas in the sixth ODI. Utthappa in the sixth ODI, even though many shots were pure luck. Monty’s fielding efforts. Ganguly giving Broad a piece of his mind.

    The Bad: India in ODIs. Selection of Ajit Agarkar, some one give me one good reason. The on-field behaviour of both India and England. Indian batting in the final ODI.

    The Ugly: Indians on the field. The umpiring. The series has to be the best case for increasing the use of technology in cricket. These umpires could are no Dickie Birds. Dravid’s captaincy – only thing that came close to the umpiring. Matt Prior behind the wickets. Powar, all times except when he bowled, and if I may ask, what’s with the hairband? Paul Collingwood, after his runout, in the sixth ODI. Yuvraj, with the ball, in the sixth ODI.

    For a better article on use of tech, go here. And if you are generally fed up of India’s dismal performance in cricket maybe this will cheer you up.

    [tags]Cricket, Hockey, Sports, India, England[/tags]

  • Rocking at the Oval

    The Indian team is already on a roll in the third test at the Brit Oval.

    Imagine India winning test series outside the subcontinent without any century, without any significant contribution from Rahul “the Wall” Dravid (this is the one off thing in a long long time). This is so interesting. Everyone has done his bit and Dhoni has played magically to take the English bowlers to the cleaners.

    Even Kumble has come up with a half century. Keep rocking guys!

    Update: Hats off to Kumble for his first Test century, the most faithful soldier to Indian cricket.

  • How to tackle sledging?

    Offense as they say is the best defense. As Siddharth Ravindran puts it,

    What would happen if the non-striking batsman started chatting to the bowler as he was about to commence his run-up? There would be a hell of a fuss, and on-field chatter would quickly cease to be a one-way street.

    Totally agree with him.