Have been reading ‘The World According to Clarkson’ written by Jeremy Clarkson. He writes a weekly column in The Sunday Times and is better known to BBC viewers as the anchor of Top Gear. His writing style is witty, irreverent and (not atypically British) pulling down everything and every one. Many of his views/ opinions [...]
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Doctor Vijay Mallya hit the nail on its head, pierced the bull’s eye and put his finger on the problem all at once when he commented, “At the end of the day people need to understand that the IPL has a corporate side to it, and a very definitive corporate side [...]
When you join the growing list of Novak Jokovic’s fans and search Youtube for his many videos, you will find that he does a few brilliantly funny ones of Maria Sharapova (”just friends”), Andy Roddick, Goran Ivanisevic, Lleyton Hewitt and Rafael Nadal. They’re complete with mannerisms and all. He does not even stop at Rafa’s [...]
Now, thats not even a headline I thought of. Its an ad slogan for FedEx and since this is a post about Roger Federer, it just seemed kinda apt.
The US Open is about to enter its second week and as is becoming common (as opposed to boring), the guy to beat is this gent here.
Its [...]
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 [...]
The thing about Jim Murray is that he lived “happily” but somebody ran off with his “ever after.” It’s like the guy who’s ahead all night at the poker and then ends up bumming cab money home. Or the champ who’s untouched for 14 rounds and then gets KO’d by a pool-hall left you could [...]
Its not a prompt start to the Trent Bridge Test and sure enough the discussions wander off to the topic thats always kept on simmer these days. The fab four.
Ten days ago, just ahead of the Lords Test they were singing praises of Sachin Tendulkar again, for instance. ‘The Second Bradman says Tony Greig’ kind [...]
Call it the love of the underdog if you will. Or the sheer amazement that the superpower is the underdog. But I love it when the BCCI wins little battles. Even more when nobody acknowledges the victories.
Make no mistake about it. Its not like the BCCI is above reproach. I just think we sometimes rap [...]
I eat breakfast three television yards away from four thousand bloggers who are trained to pick me off. So don’t think for one second that you can come down here, flash a bit of cricket knowledge, and make me nervous.
Son, we live in a world that needs money, and that money has to be made [...]
Graham Ford’s Runaway Bride act (for thats the politest one can be) has done this. Its turned the focus solely on Rahul Dravid. This is going to be his summer. It will have to be. It had to be that way the day he reconciled it all by saying “Coming to a place like India, [...]
Since people visiting here seem to come from somewhat of a similar bandwidth as moi often (sorry for the morning jibe !) , and since popular search words to get to the site include “Rohit Brijnath” (and err ..rambha), and since Homer talking about Brijnath in 1993 reminded me , and since I have always [...]
Tiger Pataudi on Karan Thapar’s Devil’s Advocate..
Tiger’s always been a say-it-like-it-is commentator on the game. And Karan Thapar’s interview style of trying to put words into his guests’ mouth (as opposed to listening and trying to veer an interview), would have met a formidable match.
A bit of that on video here
The big weekend is out of the way and what do we have ? More questions than answers really.
This whole seniors issue which is as much media created as it is real though promises to be the biggest firecracker this coming week. On the 11th, the selectors will come up with the team for Bangladesh. [...]
So the BCCI meet is over .. and this is what we have as a statement from them. A lot of it is the blueprint they look for which one can revisit as the days go by.
Important near term features tho..
Dravid is skipper for the tours of Bangladesh, Ireland and England.
The BCCI working committee have [...]
Ok, This is going to be my last Rohit Brijnath post. (for the day!)
And this time I’m not just going to link it. (In case at some stage in the future the link’s lost, I’m gonna cut and paste the whole thing.)
This was somewhat of an Open Letter to Greg Chappell. The circumstances are self [...]
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 [...]
Ironically, in a piece on his blog called Death of a Game, Rajdeep Sardesai provides a cricket loving mediaperson’s perspective of what should be.
Somewhere in the piece, the love for the game comes through. Here’s hoping that there’s going to be atleast one channel that wont try to find a “mujrim” for a cricket [...]
