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 hope young Williamson does so too. We are talking about Kane Williamson, who has been selected to play for the [...]

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 the known stars have gone. I was in need of someone who could whack the ball, as all the specialists [...]

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 what is the tournament like? how many teams? (my guess is 2)…prize money? There were so many questions, and half [...]

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 it doesn’t seem to be enough as New Zealand are 402/8 as I type this. In related news, Daniel Vettori [...]

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.