England win The Ashes!!
The month long carnival of test cricket finally draws to an end and we have a victor. England have won the Ashes 2-1 and the joy and emotion of British sports fans have probably reached a crescendo. It remains to be seen whether there is an open bus parade in Trafalgar Square in a reenactment [...]
The Ashes are here!!
Yes..it’s finally here! This is one preview I have always dreaded writing because of the overkill that has been observed in the cricketing blogosphere for the past year or so. There has not been a single aspect of the upcoming clash of the oldest rivalry in the sporting world, that has not been ruminated on [...]
Crossroads
If I think about the most enthralling moments in cricket over the last decade or so, here is what I come with up:
I think of a spectacular Sachin Tendulkar stepping out of his crease time and again to hit the Australians out into the desert, raising the spirits of a nation which had lost hope. [...]
Twenty-20 or Test Cricket?
A quick survey of the leading cricket blogs at present is enough to convince us that the prime debate in the cricketing world remains the explosion of Twenty-20 cricket and the implied eventual death of test cricket. As with most partisan ventures, ideologues on both sides advocate the pros and cons of their own convictions [...]
