Tag Archive | Cricket
David vs Goliath: And Dadagiri Forever!
In today’s Pune warriors vs Mumbai match, it was a battle of unequal powers. The Pune team was almost on the verge of pulling out of the tourney and were brought in at the last moment through diplomatic dialogue. Their boycott of the players auctions meant they had to settle for a sucky lot of […]
Thoughts on World Cancer Day: Part I–Unraveling Yuvraj Singh’s Cancer
Sorry for missing the train on this one. February 4th is the World Cancer Day and is one of the public health days that could do with some more propaganda in the public eye. I was so caught up with work and studies it just passed me by and I could not even get the […]
So What If Peter Roebuck WAS Gay?
I logged in to check if I had any comments or mails to moderate or reply to and I was hugely shocked to see this on the stats tab of the blog: Initially I had thought that the spike of visits was because of this post I wrote about my experience of the AIIMS PGMEE […]
R.I.P.: Peter Roebuck
Just as I was about to wind up for the night, I came across this news bit on Twitter: Peter Roebuck is dead. He was supposedly being investigated for committing sexual assault when he jumped t0 his death from the 6th floor of his hotel room in South Africa. He was there to cover the […]
Ganguly: The Comeback Man
F**k you SRK. Bah. Got that off my chest. Anyways. Now to discuss the match. This pic from ESPN CricInfo more or less summarizes the events of the day: Following the fall of Robin Uthappa, this emotional fan breached the security and invaded the pitch to throw himself at the feet of Dada. Oh, by […]
Gayle Storm Pummels Punjab
Not unlike the way he cracked the Kolkata Knights’ armor and won the match with gay-le abandon! Watch his dance of destruction!
Just Like Olden Days
This was bound to happen sooner rather than later. A side with a decent spin department was bound to trap the Kolkata Knight Riders in their own trap. So Kochi, the new kids on the IPL block, were to face off with the old losers, KKR. Batting first, Kochi opened with long time KKR gunner, […]
A Royal Knightmare
Warne’s boys got walloped twice in as many days by an up and coming Kolkata Knight Rider. It was the home match for the KKR and the game was supposed to be a cliffhanger, especially given the pitch was a slow turner and the RR were led by none other than the maestro Shane Warne. […]
KKR: Knights of Resurrection
… or is it just serving old wine in a new bottle? Rajasthan Royals, under the sprightly looking Shane Warne posted a daunting looking total of 160 for the Knights to chase. It was never going to be an easy task given the fact that the Royals were a major threat on their homeground. But […]
Redemption and a Few Worries for KKR
KKR have registered their first victory in the fourth season of the Indian Premier League against the somewhat bedraggled Deccan Chargers. Having scored an intimidating 163 on a slow, turning Eden pitch, it was expected that even with their mediocre spin bowlers, KKR would be able to make it through easily. And they did, eventually […]
Its Déjà vu for me and KKR!
So I tortured myself again tonight by submitting myself to watch the final 5 overs of the match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. And what a big mistake it was. KKR have restructured the team, thrown out an egotistical, megalomaniac icon, roped in some real effects players, but no matter what they […]
When David Felled Goliath!
Well, the pre-match heat was turned on when the Irish skipper appeared at a Press conference in purple hair claiming that his team was raring to go against the old enemies, the English. After the bashing the minnows have received in general, and especially after the Irish choked while chasing a paltry 205 against Bangladesh, […]
Saving Private Ryan!
This is not about the movie, but about the cricket match that just unfolded just now, where England scraped through against a buoyant Dutch side that put up a challenging 292/6 from its tally of 50 overs. While I am not particularly fond of the 50 over version of the game now that T20 has […]
Mr. Second Innings: Laxman
I guess I was waiting for the outcome of the test match to shoot this post out, because depending on the final outcome, I would have painted Laxman either in the shades of a tragic hero or a match winning superstar. In either case, his fluent 96 remains one of the best test cricket innings […]
50×100: No Challenge Too Big
There is some poetic justice in the fact that Sachin Tendulkar got the 50th century when he actually did. Today. When his side was down and dusted, battling to stay on in the game. In my opinion, and with due respect to the Kiwi boys, it would have been a damp squib if he had […]
