I remember some of my relatives talking about how they would listen to score updates on radio during their childhood, especially those amazing matches between India and the Mighty West Indies and how the West Indian bowling ripped through the Indian batting except Gavaskar. The excitement was definitely there in …
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Cricket has been evolving ever since it was first played in the 1600. The game spread from England and is currently being virtually played by all countries. Barring United States, all the countries including West Indies all the way to Australia. The most famous and the toughest format of the …
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Modern day cricket is all about T20 and batsmen tend to go Boom Boom right from the first ball. Be it a Test match of One Day International, batsmen today are not afraid to take risk of hitting big sixes not matter who the bowler is and how big the …
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He has become the fastest batsman to score 7000 runs in One Day Internationals and soon after he went on to become the fastest batsman to score 25 centuries in ODIs, you’ve been staying under a rock if you haven’t yet guessed whom I’m talking about – yes I’m talking …
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If you follow cricket, you probably know Dravid and even if you don’t follow cricket you SHOULD know Dravid. He is definitely one of the greatest batsman Cricket has ever had, and every Indian should be proud of it. During his peak, he was the most feared batsman not only …
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India’s form in one of the most popular Cricket format – ODIs has been deteriorating for quite sometime now. First their series loss [1-2] against Bangladesh during the June-July tour in 2015, followed by a series win against Zimbabwe which is then followed by the series loss against the Proteas in the …
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It was just last week that I wrote about the state of Test Cricket matches in India – Test Cricket – 3 day affair ? Wrote about how poor the pitches were that the test matches were over in just three days ! So on one side we have the …
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You read it right – unfortunately Test Cricket has become a 3 affair – which is apparently true, especially in India. It still remains the full ‘5 Day test Match’ elsewhere in the world, like the one going on down-under between Australia and New Zealand – the two teams will be playing …
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Cricket has evolved a lot and that too at a brisk pace, from Test Cricket to T20 and from Red To Pink Cricket Ball. The first few memories I have of watching cricket was probably Kumble’s 10 wicket in an innings against Pakistan in 1999. (Mind you I’m not very …
Read More »“India….India…”,”Sachin….Sachin….” are probably two of the most famous chants in India. Be it a person from the remote town of LongChing (yes its a town in Nagaland) or be a pakka Mumbaikar, people from all parts of India irrespective of their religion, race or the language they speak, these two chants bring all of them together. …
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