2 minute readOver at The Cricketer, John Emburey has made the point that Sachin Tendulkar has been tested in ways that Bradman wasn’t. It’s a fair point. Different eras In Ed Smith’s damn fine book, What Sport Tells Us About Life, there’s a whole chapter dedicated to Bradman’s average. Someone somewhere did
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Feeble headline of the week
< 1 minute read‘Sachin Tendulkar is arguably the best batsman of my generation’ The Guardian have set the bar low. Can anyone stoop lower?
Continue readingZaheer Khan and James Anderson
2 minute readWe’re all pretty lucky, you know. For the next few weeks, we’re going to get Zaheer Khan one innings and then James Anderson the next. It’s like our metabolism has suddenly allowed us a curry-pizza-curry-pizza diet. No muesli. What follows isn’t really meant to be a comparison. It’s more about
Continue readingWhat is Sachin Tendulkar really thinking?
< 1 minute readThe Cricinfo headline reads: “Tendulkar not thinking of 100th ton”. Now we haven’t got time to actually click the link and read the article, but we have got time to sit here with a beer or two, spending hours thinking about that headline. How can Cricinfo know that Tendulkar isn’t
Continue readingHarbhajan Singh is part way there
2 minute readCricinfo have done a ‘how will history judge him?’ kind of article in the wake of Harbhajan Singh’s 400th Test wicket. Seems weird. He’s still playing, right? Harbhajan is now 31. He’s hardly shopping for his last pair of slippers. Graeme Swann had played about a dozen Tests by that
Continue readingWhat does Dhoni’s incorrect dismissal tell us?
< 1 minute readDhoni was caught off Fidel Edwards, but umpire Iain Gould thought it was a no-ball and asked the third umpire for confirmation. It was a no-ball, but the broadcaster showed the third umpire the wrong footage and Dhoni was wrongly given out. What does this tell us? It tells us
Continue readingFive-Test series between England and India
< 1 minute readHave we updated the site today? No. Did we forget? Yes. Will this be one of our all-time greatest updates? Definitely not. India and England will play five-Test series in 2014 and 2018. That’s good, isn’t it? Five-Test series allow for a proper narrative to develop. The term ‘five-Test series’
Continue readingCall Rahul Dravid if you need a grown-up to do a job for you
2 minute readGambhir, Sehwag, Tendulkar and Yuvraj aren’t playing against the West Indies, so there were plenty of chances for India’s up-and-coming batsmen to make their mark. Suresh Raina got 82 in the first innings and Harbhajan 70, but other than that it’s all been eights, twelves and fifteens. But batting’s been
Continue readingPraveen Kumar brings medium-pace back to Test cricket
< 1 minute readWe didn’t even recognise Praveen Kumar when we switched on the first Test between the West Indies and India. His is a familiar face, but we’d never seen him in white clothes before. It had also never really occurred to us just how slowly he bowls. While Ishant Sharma’s pace
Continue readingRoyal Challengers Bangalore get another life
< 1 minute readThose who suggest we might have lost track of the IPL during the league phase may have a point. We were at a friend’s house yesterday and he switched on the IPL, asking: “Is this important?” to which we answered, with some confidence: “No.” Turns out it was important and
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