Tag Archives: Test Cricket

One of the most amazing fairy-tale in the history of any sport should be the rise of Afghanistan. The war trodden country, coming out of it, taking up the sport and performing amazingly well at the world stage. The people too have embraced the sport, credits to Taliban for creating …

ICC has been doing a lot to keep the most prestigious format – Test Cricket – of the game alive. From experimenting with Pink Ball and Day / Night test matches, the ICC has probably done everything needed to attract fans to the stadium. If you have followed my blog …

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 …

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 …

New Zealand have a been a great side for a considerable amount of time. I remember as a young kid watching the likes of Stephen Fleming, Nathan Astle, Craig McMillan, Scott Styris terrorising the Indian bowlers. The only problem was that these guys weren’t consistent. But they have surely showed …

It all began on November 15, 1989 when the BCCI took a bold decision to include a 16 year old ‘kid’ in the Indian Cricket team. Nobody would have thought the way this kid will change the face of Cricket to what it is today. This kid showed the world …

In the 200th test match that Sachin is playing today, there were a whole lot of people including business tycoons with the likes of Ambanis, Godrejs along side some Bollywood personalities like Aamir Khan, Ashutosh Gowarikar and others. The match did start with a lull as Dhoni chucked a ‘GOOGLY’ …

He has been called by various names likes Master Blaster, Tendia, and he has terrorized many bowlers in his lifetime by his destructive batting over the years. No one could have ever imagined that a young kid of a mere age of 16 would one day go on to re-name the Record …

Who would have thought that this edition of the Ashes would start in this form ? I felt the depleted Australian side will surely come hard at the British batsmen, and it happened just that way. Pattinson and Siddle uprooted the stumps of the English batsmen as they were bundled …

There were many questions asked about this inexperienced Indian side as to whether they will be able to beat the power-houses in the cricketing world. It all started with India losing to England at home last time around, so the team had to get out of it. And what better way to …