Silly Point
It is unusually close to the batsmen. It is a dangerous, yet a rewarding position. It gives new players a chance to learn the game, the nimble ones a chance to display their fielding prowess, and the wily ones a…
11 memories of 2011
Watching Sachin at Bangalore scoring 100 in a World Cup match in Feb. If I would I have jumped from the stands at that very moment, it would have been a great death. And also at the end of it…
Our obsession with the 100th 100
कब बनेगा शतको का शतक? (आज तक, 193 times since Feb’11) Ever since end of February 2011 all of us have been waiting for Sachin to score that century. Personally I have been counting every run of his backwards from…
टेस्ट क्रिकेट का अंत… या शुरुआत?
आने वाला है क्रिकेट इतिहास का एक अमर क्षण जब होने चलते स्वयं के टेस्ट के पूरे दो हज़ार रन, १८७७ मैं शुरू हुई थी जो प्रथा २०११ मैं क्या हो गयी है इसकी व्यथा. अंग्रेजो ने नीव रखी क्रिकेट…
Ahhh… we won it!?
It was a weird feeling, a never before kind of experience, roaming around near Shivaji Park at night, thousands of people of all kinds on street. I think it was their presence on streets, rather than of actually watching it…
The Politics of Cricket or the Cricket of Politics?
He is a batting genius, the greatest we have ever seen, my generation has spent one-third of its life watching, thinking and talking about him, still he remains humble, modest, calm and a man of integrity. He is an economic…
The Death of Longer format
Watching the current India-NZ series made me think a bit. Gone are the awesome days of test cricket when there was a patient build up to the innings, each ball was played on its merit and there was a healthy…
Well Left
Gone are the awesome days of test cricket, when Dravid just used to leave it on its way, even God did it but Dravid was much more elegant in leaving the cricket ball. Commentators always used to say he had…
Sorry to say but they surely are…
During Hero Cup I liked them but Sachin ended them in that historic over;1996 I was fascinated by them: by Jonty, by Cronje, by Donald, but Lara did them; 1999 they were surely the best, and I cried with millions…
खेल,इन्टरनेट और हम
कुछ बाराह साल का था मैं, जब मैंने पहली बार भगवान् को देखा, वो नीले रंग का मुकुट पहेनता था अपने घुंघराले बालो के ऊपर, और एक भारी लकड़ी की गदा थी उसके पास, और अपने चमत्कार से वोह दुनिया…
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