Choosing Hemingway: black (good) mourning

I chose the “black”-theme to mourn India’s departure from the world cup 2007. And I was intrigued to find the Hemingway theme that is quite different from anything I’ve seen. Of course it displays only the two blogs at a time… but maybe, that’s ok. I wish it had more options in the bottom bar… [...]

No more cricket! And I mean it (after India’s world cup exit)

Well… that’s it. I had said that I would retire from cricket writing if India did not make it to the Super8s… well India didn’t. So that’s it. From now on, this blogsite will talk about anything BUT cricket. All worldcup related tags (except cricket and worldcup) are being removed… and the entire look of [...]

Oh the horror! India lose and face possible early exit!!

I didn’t think it was possible. But it happened. And now… India is paying for it’s cautious defensive mindset… by losing to Bangladesh! And facing the prospect of an early exit. Because of Sri Lanka’s demolishing of Bermuda… the chances for India making it are not that easy.
Anyway, I am so upset… that I am [...]

Never say Never: 6-sixes in one over

Just yesterday I said to myself… that it would never happen. I really believed that no one would hit 6-sixes in a one-day international… at least not this world cup. And in 24-hours I was proved wrong. This is how it happened… according to cricinfo.
Herschelle Gibbs’s six sixes off Dan van Bunge’s fourth over [...]

Gavaskar-Ponting verbal duel: another opinion

Here’s an interesting link to the ‘other’ side of the Ponting-Gavaskar debate.
http://i3j3cricket.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/gavaskar-ponting-war-of-words-aussie-views/
My own take is that Gavaskar is a TV commentator and Ponting a player. Two different sets of rules apply. A commentor can stay some stupid things and get away with it more easily than a captain of the premiere cricket team.
Regardless, [...]

AA-and a guide to get featured?

(latest update: So I sent a mail to Matt… (from WordPress) and he said the list has changed, but cannot influence the list further. So the history of the cricket tag so far is as follows… a [Ashes] Harmison fit post. Then an “Add-on” post. And now some old news about Ganguly and Dalmiya. I [...]

Indian Cricket Team Batting Weaknesses… and suggestions

I know, I know… we all want India to win the world cup, and like millions others… I will NEVER bet against India. However, being a strong team doesn’t mean that we can’t be aware of our weaknesses. (Of course our assessment makes no difference… but when did that stop the common Indian fan from [...]

Nobody listens! And that’s OK when we win

What this heading above is trying to say is that I tried to make recommendations for the team order, and obviously it doesn’t matter. However, we went on (or actually are going on) to win against Sri Lanka dramatically. So happily… all our ‘fan’ opinions don’t matter… especially if/when we win. And we usually have [...]

World XI vs India XI

If we were to take this team (Mohan’s World XI), and take out the Indians place head to head with the Indian team, it’s interesting to see the result. I’ve put a star in front of who I think is better head-to-head. An (extra) star is given to the player who contributes well with bowling/ [...]

Now that Ganguly is ‘resting’… my team for warm up vs West Indies

OK… now that poor dada is carrying a niggle, (and without jest, Ganguli needs to be preserved for the important matches), this is my proposal for the next warm up match against West Indies. (including Bowling/Batting order).
Chiefly, my concern is to give the bowling department as much practice as possible. Zaheer would do his stuff [...]