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The day is July 13th of 2010, a cricketer by the name of Shane Robert Watson is having fun, as the batsmen in the Pakistan team seem to be thinking that they are still kids and as a result should bludgeon every ball that Watson bowls into t...(more)

As the Australian think-tank consisting of captain Clarke, the coach Nielsen and co. sit around on a table to discuss about the bowling combination for the upcoming test series against Lanka, they will have to think long and hard abou...(more)

Thirteenth of August 2011 is a red letter day for every fan, who supports England cricket team, as after years of watching the team trudge from one defeat to another, one can finally feel proud of a team that ruthlessly dismantles every sid...(more)



It has taken Stuart Broad roughly 7 days of Test cricket to flatten India. If he can hold up his performance for the second half of this Test; the series can be safely labelled Broad’s Pataudi Trophy. Of course it does not have the ...(more)

The only time, I was confident about India winning an away series was in 1986 when a strong Indian line up took on an Australia in transition. That side on form and skill was almost as strong as this Dhoni led Indian side; perhaps a bit str...(more)

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The man whose swagger and attacking batsmanship made the best of bowlers feel like they should wear a helmet while bowling to him was in a spot of bother going into the Lord’s test against India. Yes, he had scored a double hundred at...(more)

The tour didn’t get ignored as much as I’d thought, actually - quite unlike Raina’s first captaincy stint in the tri-series with Zimbabwe and Bangladesh year. There was plenty of interest in the progress of India’s n...(more)


Yes, NWG was there. Her first bit of live cricket since the Ashes (what memories).And she got there and it rained. So...She went home. Hung out. Watched TV.Then went back. Oh the dream of living so near the Oval.And so she watched England w...(more)

On seventeenth November of 2010 all the hype in World cricket was about whether Strauss and his band of boys can defeat Australia in their own den. The hype was on expected lines, as England hadn’t defeated Australia in Australi...(more)

About 18 years ago, a tall, dark and handsome fast bowler with a stare that would make the best of batsmen feel that he is going to murder them the next ball blitzed Australia’s top-order by taking 7 for 25 on a trampoline wicke...(more)

Remember when test cricket was the only game around? Well, that was slightly before my time (only slightly, mind) but remember when test cricket was the game we all really cared about?Remember when we really didn’t give a shit about T20...(more)

It has been four years (plus 6 days, but who’s counting) since Rohit Sharma made his debut. He was, at the time, an obligatory new face that had to be brought in after India’s epic World Cup campaign in ’07. Obviously that...(more)

Don’t be a spinner, unless you are Shane Warne reincarnated. They might let you play a bit, they might even give you a contract but if you aren’t turning the ball the width of Mike Gatting they will get sick of you pretty quickly and...(more)

Here lie the remains of Marcus J Northwho we seem to care less about that Katto;who made a century on debut and again at Cardiff;who helped us to a miraculous draw at Birmingham andwho took six wickets at Lord’s (and is generally con...(more)


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