Posts Tagged ‘cricinfo’
One-day, you can be better!
It is widely believed that when the cricket administrators get some time away from whatever they do to take more control of the game, they set out on their favourite pursuit, that of tweaking the rules of one-day cricket. It will be a surprise to me if I am pointed to any form of any […]
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Tags: cricinfo, cricket, ODI, one-day
The Joy of a Ranji Game
The ritual starts every year around the beginning of October. I look up the Ranji Trophy fixtures on Cricinfo, extract the ‘Tamil Nadu’ matches and mail them to a friend, highlighting the matches that are scheduled to happen at Chennai. Sometimes, he does the same before I do. Either way, for the last few years, […]
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Tags: chennai, cricinfo, cricket, ranji trophy, tamil nadu
Paddle Sweeps and Scoops
I didn’t like millions of fans getting something wrong and so dashed off a comment. And they put it in!
Karthik will clear all the technical doubts, he’s an ace batsman – “The shot that Marillier invented (and used to great effect in a match against India) was the paddle scoop…”
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Tags: cricinfo, cricket, writing
The Straight Bat 