New Zealand

Kane Williamson gets a call up

March 25, 2010

On a personal front, I love young teens who make it to the national side. The early exposure puts them under performance pressure without the excess need to perform. They always have the time to re-prove themselves lest they fail. If they fail. Most of them grab the opportunity with both hands gleefully. I sincerely [...]

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Greatbatch Premonition

January 30, 2010
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There is something they say about premonitions. You don’t realize them as strongly as an intuition. Why do I say that? Well, about a week ago, I was participating in a draft selection game in which you had to forge an all time ODI XI. It was the later rounds, and by that time all [...]

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new zealand play domestic t20 too

January 3, 2010

i am not talking about the ipl here apparently, they have their own tiny version of a local t20 competition. I did not know this, and all this while I thought they sent their national team for the airtel champions league thingie this year, and called it otago just for the heck of it. so [...]

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To Asif. Or not to Asif.

November 25, 2009

Mohammad Asif took three wickets on his comeback from dope. He celebrated his comeback by not smoking up. The times, they are a changing. We are talking about the first test between New Zealand and Pakistan at Dunedin, an ancient village full of sand dunes back in the day. No? Pakistan have bowled well, but [...]

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Gambhir Joins the injured list

September 10, 2009

World’s best batsman injured! Zaheer, Sehwag, and now Gambhir. This is one heck of a paid leave our cricketers are enjoying. All ‘work’ and no ‘play’ makes you a stupid person. No one seems to take that seriously though, with people queuing up to be a part of the injured gang.

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