Boxing Day Woes

The opening tour game at Victoria saw Rahul Dravid return to form. He was sent as an opener and scored an unbeaten 33 before the match was washed out due to rain. Well, Dravid’s return to form has triggered many questions on who will open for India on the boxing day.
Virendra Sehwag stands as a [...]

‘Boxing’ Facts

Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in Australia and many other Commonwealth countries on December 26, the day after or alternatively on the next day after Christmas.
In 1950 the first ever Australian Boxing Day Test was hosted at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The tradition goes back to the middle ages with varied versions on [...]

Just Do It, Dada!

Ricky Ponting is the only cricketer in the world to have posted a ton in both innings of his 100th test match. Can Dada repeat the feat at MCG? Here’s a message for him:

Just Do It!

Zak on top

Indian pacer Zaheer Khan emerged the highest wicket taker while his teammate Sachin Tendulkar was the second highest run getter in the one-dayers in the 2007 calendar year.
Zaheer picked up 40 wickets from 33 ODIs he played in the year while Tendulkar scored 1425 runs from the same number of matches in the year.
Among other [...]

Blunder Down Under

As a spectator, I think India is not well prepared for the high pressure tour, Down Under. I’d blame the following, if Team India under-performs:

Crammed schedule will not allow the team to acclimatize with Australian conditions. BCCI should have planned only two tests with Pakistan instead of three. This would have given Team India some [...]

Marry ME, Dhoni!

Indian media is gaga over Dhoni’s crush on Bollywood star Deepika Padukone. It is believed that Dhoni invited Deepika to watch the T20 match with Australia, which was sealed by a marvellous six off Dhoni’s willow. Cameras turned to record Deepika’s reaction and she was obviously enjoying the moment. Mr. MS Dhoni also requested [...]

The Great Indian Sledgers

Sledging is the practice in cricket of insulting opponents to break their concentration and cause them to make mistakes. Sledging is effective because the batsman stands within hearing range of the bowler and certain fielders. The aim is to intimidate or distract the batsman into making a fatal mistake [...]

Opinion Poll – I

Who should open with Waseem Jaffer in the Indo-Oz Test Series – 2007?

Dinesh Karthik
Rahul Dravid
Virendra Sehwag
Yuvraj Singh
Gautam Gambhir
Others

The Idea of a Test Match at Night – Quite Absurd?!!!

Cricket Australia has come up with an idea to add more faces to the cricket consumer base. CA wants to play day-night test matches and believes that more people can enjoy the match after office. This will also enhance cricket’s profile among the working class, CA reckons. But I think this whole idea will only [...]

Why Guru Gary?

The trend of hiring a foreign coach is quite prevalent in the sub-continent. The cricket boards of these nations do not show any interest in the cricketing greats from their respective countries. These foreign coaches are not able to gel well with the players because of cultural and traditional differences. What they bring along [...]