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The illness that dare not speak its name

Posted on Nov 16 2006

Marcus Trescothick is not the first international cricketer to be afflicted severely by stress. I think he has just reacted very differently to it. I'm sure cricketers on tour in days past, when tours were longer, when telephone communications were p

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"Maybe the Indians should start eating boerwors"

Posted on Nov 23 2006

So writes my friend from Durban, who went to see the one-day international in which India merely confirmed their reputation as bad tourists. Oh, they are polite and well-mannered all right with the locals; they don't haggle excessively; they are reas

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Dada, is that you?

Posted on Nov 29 2006

Wow, Dileep Premchandran manages to write about Ganguly's possible recall to the Indian test team in South Africa without gagging. Poor Dileep, no one was more triumphalist than him when India went on their usual at-home-we-thump-all rampage in the l

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Whats the point?

Posted on Dec 1 2006

Poor Zaheer Khan. He hasn't yet figured out that Indian pace bowlers that get dramatic early breakthroughs condemn their side to defeat. Srinath took two wickets in the first over of the World Cup semi-final in 1996 (gee, we know what happened therea

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Two results

Posted on Dec 6 2006

Two results. One inevitable, one surprising. The PCB lifts its ban on Shoaib and Asif (come on, did you really think the ban was going to last? This blogger was skeptical about it lasting and it didn't). And England lose the second test to Australia

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The beat of a different drum

Posted on Dec 7 2006

In the midst of the opprobrium being heaped on England's head, let me strike a slightly different note (not discordant, just different). Australia deserve to be 2-0 up, but they are vulnerable. They deserve to be 2-0 up because they have played bette

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Back up the talk?

Posted on Dec 11 2006

An interesting little nugget at the end of this report on the Indian win over the Rest of South Africa:[Rudolph] wasn't quite so kind though when asked about the various on-field incidents, which had seen parts of the game played in a heated atmosphe

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Might as well

Posted on Dec 12 2006

Ah, what the heck, I'll have a go. Here is my Indian XI for the first test:Jaffer, Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman, Ganguly, Dhoni, Pathan, Kumble, Zaheer and VRV Singh. Dodgy points: why no space for Sreesanth? Why not Harbhajan? For the first, Si

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G'bye Marto

Posted on Dec 12 2006

Damien Martyn was a very elegant batsman with a mixed career, and its only fitting that the bunch of memories he leaves behind for me are a suitably mixed lot. The first time I saw him was in the 1994/95 season as Australia and Austrlia 'A' clashed i

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Home for the holidays

Posted on Dec 13 2006

I've accused Cricinfo of being England-centric in the past. Dear reader, read this piece on gifts for the holidays, and tell me if you agree.

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Can you hang in there for a bit?

Posted on Dec 15 2006

India are in desperate trouble over at the Wanderers. The openers have gone again. Poor Jaffer, he must be wondering what he has to do in order to stay in for more than a few deliveries each time. The less said about Sehwag the better. But at the cre

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Not so good this time around

Posted on Sep 28 2006

Rahul Bhattacharya tries to be funny, and can't quite manage it. And Alex Brown tries to convince us that Ponting is sledging Flintoff (admittedly, McGrath does sound like he is up to his usual "targeting" tactics). Sheesh. The Ashes hype is quite ti

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Here we go again

Posted on Sep 27 2006

One sad little episode in Indian cricket continues as Saurav Ganguly is picked for the Challenger Trophy at home. While I'm glad to see Zaheer Khan playing as well (despite all his struggles over the years, Zaheer has managed to retain the original s

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Indian Colts on a high

Posted on Sep 26 2006

In a remarkable run of results, India's U-19 cricket team swept both the longer and shorter versions of the game in their Pakistan tour (2-0 in the four-day match series, and 4-0 in the one-day series). Check out the scorecard from the fourth one-day

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Harbhajan holds forth

Posted on Sep 22 2006

I've often complained about how inarticulate cricketers (especially Indian ones) can be in interviews. Most of them dish out content-free cliches and inanities (this is especially the case after losses). But here is something refreshingly different.

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Which direction?

Posted on Sep 23 2006

In the latest episode of the Warne-Buchanan saga, Gilchrist and Langer show off their support for the thing that gets them to the ground and back. Sorry, couldn't help it. Gilchrist goes on to say:"I understand that some people might be uncertain abo

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Monty and the Shrink

Posted on Sep 22 2006

I missed responding this piece on Monty Panesar's consultation with a psychologist as preparation for the Ashes. And I'm not quite sure what to make of it. Monty will get it on the boundary, no doubt about that. Cracks about taxis, curry, Osama, 'wha

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Cricinfo's lame servers

Posted on Sep 14 2006

Its 7:30 AM here in Brooklyn, and I'm trying to check scores over at Cricinfo. No luck. The site doesn't come up. Frankly, I'm puzzled. Is there any other sports website that claims so much for itself "the biggest, the best", that has so many corpora

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What a contrast

Posted on Sep 14 2006

So, Mark Vermeulen is out of English cricket for 10 years. For what? Read on. Its worth pointing out that about nine years ago, a cricketer ran into a crowd of spectators with a bat, and assaulted a spectator. He was banned for....two games. The cric

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Show us the money

Posted on Aug 23 2006

Having said plenty about the Pakistani team, it should be noted that the least the ICC can do with regards to the charge of ball tampering is present the evidence of ball-tampering to all and sundry. Given that spectators, both at the Oval and elsewh

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