2 minute readThese sorts of landmarks are like birthdays. They get a lot of attention, but they don’t change much. People whinge about how they’re getting older when it’s their birthday, but the truth is that every day of your life you’re a day older than the day before and your birthday’s
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We were there when Tendulkar hit his hundredth international hundred
< 1 minute readWe were there, looking at a Cricinfo scorecard, waiting for the number to change. That’s how people watch cricket these days, right? That’s how we experience these supposedly momentous events. We think we speak for most people when we say that we’re glad that’s out of the way. A hundred
Continue readingRahul Dravid: the barometer of class
3 minute readLooking through the archives, we’ve written surprisingly little about Rahul Dravid. Many of his best innings predate the site and also – partly as a result of that – we’ve always just assumed that everyone knew how good he was. Forward defensives They call him The Wall. It’s meant as
Continue readingVirat Kohli middles it
< 1 minute readVirat Kohli went a bit Nathan Astle earlier. In fact, we’re pretty sure Mahela Jayawardene said that he ‘batted out of his skins’ which raises the possibility that Kohli isn’t human. India needed to chase down Sri Lanka’s total within 40 overs in order to secure the bonus point that
Continue readingMS Dhoni and Virender Sehwag – do they want to punch each other’s lights out?
< 1 minute readIndia’s tour of Australia has been a bit poo. They have lost a lot of cricket matches and as a result of all this losing, some of the players are getting tetchy with each other. The media are gleefully pouncing on the tetchiness and seem to be weaving a few
Continue readingVirat Kohli hits first Test hundred
2 minute readAs well as being from a different generation, Tendulkar, Dravid and them are also significantly older than the likes of Virat Kohli. What we mean by this is that people change over time. They grow up. We say this not because we’re competing in a hotly-contested online state-the-obvious competition, but
Continue readingIndia’s nuts need tightening
< 1 minute readTheir wheel nuts. Don’t be crude. It’s not so much that India keep losing Test matches that’s depressing, it’s the way that they lose them: the wheels keep coming off. In England and Australia, India have collectively averaged 24.5 with the bat and 56.97 with the ball. To put that
Continue readingGautam Gambhir wants rank turners in India
< 1 minute readSome people seem to think there’s a bit of “yeah, well, see how you like it,” about this. That’s understandable. Gambhir’s had a couple of bad tours, so you can’t really blame him. However, he’d do well to remember that home success doesn’t negate failure away from home. It only
Continue readingIndia bad enough to draw attention from Tendulkar milestone
2 minute readThe India team as a whole has been pleading for attention for a while now. Not content with being overshadowed by Sachin Tendulkar’s apparently forever imminent 100th hundred, they’ve sought the spotlight through rank incompetence. Well, the good news is that after getting within a handful of runs of conceding
Continue readingFit and misfiring
< 1 minute readWe don’t try and steer clear of stupidity altogether – that would be unrealistic – but we do generally try and avoid saying anything too moronic until both sides have batted. Even so, we’re tempted to get in early today after India were again bowled out easily by Australia. India
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