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Kumar Sangakkara can sometimes be a total nutjob. Before the tour began, he claimed that his team had the balls to beat India in India. He lost the test series 0-2, because he let the Indian batting get away. The biggest threat to any opposition against India is India’s Batting prowess. Sehwag. Sachin. Gambhir Yuvraj Kohli Raina MS Dhoni Jadeja If that is not a great ODI line-up, then we are in the 2030s . [...]

This is the preview for INDIA for the 5 Game ODI Series India’s fielding in the T20s was not fishy, as MSD described. It was shithouse, to say the least. The word ‘fishy’ might be used to describe things out of place, but not here. The Indian approach to fielding was skewed far more towards shoddy than fishy. It was a relief that the Sri Lankans also reciprocated, and India won the game on account [...]

Cricket with Balls by Jarrod Kimber. Every cricket blogger goes there at least once a day, if not twice. We go there to be inspired, to learn how the soundest of cricketing opinion can be expressed in the most humorous of ways. It seems Jarrod, referred to as Uncle JRod in our brethren, has written another book. This one is titled “Ashes 2009 – When Freddie Became Jesus”. Its a discourse on the 2009 Ashes [...]

There has been a murder in cricket. I am not talking about some test series where some team beat some other team and the former became World’s Number 1 team. I am talking about the Adelaide Test. Here are the details of the crime: Victim: Mark Benson Prime Suspect: Umpiring Decision Review System or UDRS in geek Other Suspects/Accomplices: Ricky Ponting,  Asad Rauf, Shivnaraine, Chanderpaul and the ICC What it has been made out to [...]

Michael Vaughan, the former England skipper thinks that if the poms are to have any chance of competing in the ICC World T20 in the West Indies next year, they should be allowed to play in the IPL. Before I say anything, here is what he had to say: “We should be making our players available for the whole of the IPL window. We are not great at Twenty20 cricket. We’ve got a Twenty20 World [...]

Yes, I am talking about Virender Sehwag. Not because everyone else is. I have been an astute follower of Sehwagology, for over an year now. I would like to thank JRod and the God Himself for that. This post is not about Sehwagology. It is about the swagger associated with it. I watched when Sehwag made his test debut. Nothing special. In retrospect, a century on debut seems like a less-than-just beginning to what would [...]