T20

Should Ganguly bowl his full quota

March 19, 2010

Paddle Sweep Wrong ‘un # 4 Here is the fourth question in the ongoing series sponsored by Nokia and Kolkata Knight Riders. Do check out an awesome competition here. Its ridiculously easy to win KKR Goodies and match tickets. With the arrival of Chris Gayle, the chances of some foreign players are diminishing. Shane Bond [...]

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Changes in the squad?

March 18, 2010

Paddle Sweep Wrong ‘un # 3 Here is the third question in the ongoing series sponsored by Nokia and Kolkata Knight Riders. Do check out an awesome competition here. Its ridiculously easy to win KKR Goodies and match tickets. The Kolkata Knightriders have won two matches comprehensively and lost the third one. Still, it can [...]

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Which foreign player?

March 12, 2010

Paddle Sweep Wrong’un #2 Guys, this is decision time. Kolkata play tomorrow in the first game of the DLF IPL 2010. Defending champions Deccan Chargers are their opponents. Before the first ball is bowled, there are a lot of pressing questions a KKR Coach has to answer, and you are one. One of the most [...]

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Ganguly as skipper?

March 8, 2010

Paddle Sweep Wrong’un #1 As mentioned in the post in which I requested you to don the role of KKR Coach, this is the first in a set of questions for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Last season, John Buchanan proposed the multiple captain theory, something which was rubbished in principle by many experts and fans [...]

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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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decide before you speak

January 1, 2010

two people. one team. two opinions. one topic. welcome to the world of pakistan cricket just a day in the past, Younis i-wanna-play-but-not-lead Khan wanted to grab the world by its collar and proclaim that T20 cricket would one day kill whatever test cricket was left among his brethren. now, just as we were expecting, [...]

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IPL is Must for T20 Success – Vaughan

December 4, 2009

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 [...]

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Analysis of Indian Squad to Sri Lanka

January 19, 2009

India squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, Irfan Pathan, Pragyan Ojha. What does one have to do to earn a call up to the Indian Cricket Team? Well there is [...]

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India to tour Sri Lanka – again!

January 15, 2009

I know this sounds crazy but when in the world of modern cricket, returning favors is all a board thinks about, there is little critics like me can do. India had just toured Sri Lanka before the South Africans came visiting last year, and now they are going again in February for 5 ODIs and [...]

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T20 on the boil

October 3, 2008

Apparently India, Australia and South Africa are going to play a tri series T20 next year.   A few questions pop up here. A tri nation T20? I mean why the hell? Aren’t we subjected to enough T20 to write about? Another Tri series?   Another question is that the ICC has decided (after using [...]

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