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Published on LastWordOnSports (14 Mar 2015) Last Strains of the Calypso: West Indies’ World Cup Hopes
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The ICC reviews the 2014 WT20
The morning sunlight streams in to the spacious grounds of Shri. N.Srinivasan’s palatial residence in Chennai. It is the day after the final of the 2014 WT20 and the mood is one of restfulness. The CSK boys are clustered around a fruit that has fallen from a tree and are debating over the type of […]
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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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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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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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Cricket beyond India
I love it when a high-quality non-Indian test match is on, just like the ongoing West Indies vs Pakistan. No frenzied patriotism on display, no reluctant interest shown. It’s here as if the match isn’t at all happening. Sometimes, you wonder if it’s somehow contrived such that you’re the only one who’s privy to the […]
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The Straight Bat 