Tag Archives: Cricket
Loaded After IPL, Stars Rest; the Rest ‘Depart’ for Windies
Indian team departs for West Indies. That’s the DNA report today (June 1). Now before one gets overtly worked up and starts collecting DNA samples of the “departed” members, let’s… Read more
Third Man: Netagiri Zindabad, World Cup Zindabad
Cup in bag, how politicians would react (read with tongue firmly behind cheek). Laloo Prasad: India won because the Wankhede Stadium is so close to the railway tracks. The tracks… Read more
World Cup in London — Live Streaming, Drums and Biriyani
It’s difficult to pen down feelings, specially if it is so overwhelming that the heart has no place for anything else. Specially when I am putting pen to paper after… Read more
This World Cup is Mine Too
I’m a fan — someone who loves her team, both in defeat and, of course, in victory. I have never played the game, but I remember the times I was… Read more
Third Man: Pakistan Blown, Bring on the Lankans
For all practical purposes, the heat was on. Almost everyone I know in Dhaka wanted a Pakistan-India (in that order; Pakistan and India!) semifinal. And just after Mahendra Singh Dhoni… Read more
Third Man: Choking Aus-trail-yeah!
The only Indian news channel I get in Dhaka is Zee News and as any viewer worth her or his sanity would vouch, it’s not exactly the channel for sane… Read more
Third Man: Liberated from Cup Trauma, Rooting for Ex-occupiers
Around 1 pm, a colleague who stays near Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka, called up. The cliché that had made a nest in Dhaka media before every match at the stadium —… Read more
Third Man: Padded Up, Bat in Hand, Life on the Ramp
Ravi Rampaul doesn’t look much like a West Indian seam bowler. He is shortish, somewhat stocky, and doesn’t exactly try to bowl quick. Quite an odd sort of quick bowler,… Read more
Third Man: Fielding on Sofa, Batting for the Fans
It’s been a long time, longer than Curtly Ambrose ambling towards long leg with his long legs, since the initial introduction, dear reader. I could dish out 237 reasons but… Read more
IPL Over National Colours? Shut Up, Bhogle
What’s wrong with missing a tour or two? asks Harsha Bhogle in his latest column in cricinfo.com. I could have simply waved my little tricoloured-flag and asked him to go… Read more »