Watching with interest the debate on T20s and Tests, I wonder if there is any right side at all.
Its all perspective - …
Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.
One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom [...]
If you’d been trapped in a time warp for a while now and haven’t noticed Asia’s growing influence in sport - virtually all sport ; well, its happening.
Rohit Brijnath, himself a symptom of this growing ascendancy, and writing now for, among others, the Hindu, the BBC and here in Singapore for the Straits Times, [...]
Given all the media hype about the upcoming Olympics - the security surrounding the torch, Bhaichung Bhutia, Aamir Khan and Tibet; and the Indian hockey team - one question that always begs to be answered is - How many gold medals can India win at the Beijing Olympics. This is as standard a topic one [...]
JP Morgan Chase have bought Bear Sterns for a price less than what LA Galaxy paid for David Beckham …
The Million Dollar Question - Is it just me getting old fashioned or is sports really changing too fast ?
Is the modern day sportsperson chasing that dream so hard that its becoming difficult to make him the role model ? At some stage we are inherently uncomfortable with the concept of watching a sportsperson competing [...]
They say that pictures are worth a thousand words. When one looks back at these, one wonders what the doubt was all about.
This is Marion Jones. And yes, the photograph is the end of the 100m finals at the Sydney Olympics.
And this, ahead of the haze (and Carl Lewis) is Ben Johnson at the [...]
I happened to be a proud recipient of a complimentary pass to the Kingfisher open Men’s singles final match conducted in Mumbai last Sunday. Now, I have always been a Tennis fan but never had the opportunity to watch a ‘live’ tennis match. Oliver Rochus v/s Richard Gasquet (I hope I got the spellings right), [...]
So today I have a scary question like that one above.
If Tests are the real thing, (and the Ashes will be the only 5 Test series ),
and
there is just too much one day cricket already
and
Twenty20 is Barbie Doll And Bobby Deol and yet there is so much of it mushrooming all over [...]
Two weeks ago, it was supposed to be the big showdown at Osaka.
Tyson Gay vs Asaka Powell at the 100m sprint.
As it turned out, though - despite having run a world record 9.77 secs thrice, Powell had never won a world title and he didn’t then.
“When I saw I wasn’t in gold medal contention, I [...]
Growing up, all kinds of things shape you. In different doses. People do it without realizing the impact.
Sportswriters were obviously an important part of the ones that shaped me and I consider myself fortunate that a large period of when I was most impressionable coincided with when Indian sports writers were at their most celebratory.
This [...]
We’ve got a Board that justifiably claims to have a monopoly over the receipts of the game. The BCCI realises that Indian eyes on tv sets are what make Ricky Ponting’s Australia Yellow or Rahul Dravid’s India Blue. Without us, they’d all be (if at all) in white.
We are the colour of money.
Sometimes tho, one [...]
I’ve often wondered if a sportsperson going out to perform at the big arena is actually just treating it like another day at work. Surely they are not. Surely the pressure is immense. Surely the chances of success are more limited. Surely the price of failure is higher.
So, if it isn’t a day at work, [...]
First it turns out that Tom Moody’s going back to Western Australia. Then it seems that an Indian family had something to do with that decision. Well, at least in some part. Or thats the way we like to paint it.
Meanwhile , seems like rain’s gonna play a big role in the rest of the [...]
I think the reason that I look at Cricket the way I do is because it symbolised a lot. And so a lot of excellence that one sees, one likes to equate with cricket. And so, even tho I might say this is a cricket blog, I’ll pretty shamelessly write here, (probably increasingly) about anything [...]
This is the great Sir Don Bradman on sledging.
“I played under Alan Kippax in New South Wales for some time, I played under Jack Ryder in the Test series in 28-29, I played under Bill Woodfull in 1930 until he retired, and I captained the side until I retired. And in the whole of [...]
This is a list of bowlers with 200 or more wickets in Test Cricket. The ones still playing are highlighted in bold.
Warne - 708 ; Murali - 674 ; Mcgrath - 563 ;
Kumble - 547 ; Walsh - 519 ; Kapil Dev - 434 ;
RJ Hadlee - 431 ; Shaun Pollock - 416 ;
Wasim Akram [...]
This is how it started. I read somewhere that John Buchanan wanted to develop ambidextrous cricketers. Seriously. Look here and here.
And sometimes you come across something so incredibly out of the ordinary that you wonder if its actually just something you hadn’t thought hard enough about. So i read up cursorily about it.
And as with [...]
If anyone wants proof that we Indians take our cricket a bit too seriously, this is it.
This is an excerpt from The States of Indian Cricket by one of India’s better known cricket writers, Ramachandra Guha. And the piece references another epic called The History of Indian Cricket by Mihir [...]
Just another Silly Point.
For a far better look at the day’s headlines, here’s Homer
To youngsters his batting is a terrific example of how to play correctly without losing ones ability to play shots and that is what is important to youngsters. He is a superb batting model. As a sportsman he has carried himself through all controversies and tough and tense situations with dignity and he has shown [...]
In 1983, long before they were big movie stars - Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, C Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise - all acted together in a movie. Its one of the better movies I’ve seen. Loved it. It was based on a book by S.E. Hilton. And was directed by [...]
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The way we see it, its half full.
There is a lot that ails Indian cricket but there is also a lot that it has going for it. And it bothers us when things get either all rosy (”so-and-so is the right person”, “such-and-such is the right way” 
or all bleak (”we’re barking up the [...]
As Michael Atherton is too busy finding alternate jobs for ST, BL and all others, I thought of putting down my thoughts on alternate career plans for English cricketers. That too for free!!!!
Michael Vaughan – Magician (he can do the Vaunishing Act at the crease with ease and elegance
Freddie Flintoff – [...]
Many years ago, on my way to college in Bombay, used to walk past a restaurant / chai dukaan called Rambha rose And right thru the college years, always wondered but never figured out why someone would call their restaurant by that name. And it bothered me not knowing. Like that niggling, bothering feeling [...]
Ok - this was in 2005 and ____ was in the form of his life - But guess who Bob Woolmer wrote about when he said this.
- Has Bradman’s genius.
- I would often sit in front of the computer, with _____’s innings on the biomechanics screen, searching for the weakness; looking for [...]
In an article which questions the West Indian skipper’s credibility more than his credentials, Michael Atherton, takes off on Brian Lara’s leadership skills.
Its written by a man who clearly believes what he writes. That said, “the self-obsession, the ego, the individualism, the outrageous talent - are qualities that often do not transfer to captaincy” seems [...]
Found this wonderful site.
So much so, it prompted me to change the name of this blog (you’ve got to know when you’re a minnow…
Rohit Brijnath , whose writings have always tried to capture the best that sports has to offer and the best that offer to sport, wrote this piece a few years ago. Just around the time India was setting out with a Vision 2007 plan.
In another piece dated September 2005, Brijnath looks at the questions which [...]
Greg Chappell Quit. And thats over and done with. And its time to move on.
Mainstream media will just have to find a new horse to flog. And they’ll probably get one as the events of the weekend pan out.
There are a whole host of people talking about the massive overreaction in India to the [...]
With even the future President Narayan Murthy talking the P word, and so much being said about the failure; and debates on whether its systemic, here’s an article about the other country thats shining.
Warning : - Its a really long article but when you consider what they have achieved in sport and what they aim [...]
Sfx, actually Bush plans to bring bug spray for himself when he watches the crickets play.
Sfx, I once tried to play cricket on my back lawn but couldn’t get white uniforms to fit the little critters.
I was off today and missed the fireworks, which seemed like deja vu after similar move on Wednesday. This [...]
Hi there - Now that India’s let the nerves get the better of them , going to start blogging about all things cricket, some other sport , India and basically anything that moves ! . Off the top of my head and from the bottom of my heart. …
Cheers
