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Pakistan Did Not Lose Because Of Dropped Catches
There’s a prevailing theory in cricket — call it the “missed chance” formula — that tries to parse through victories and defeats based on a team’s lost opportunities. For those not familiar with this...
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Gaps In Cricket Knowledge
I mentioned L. Balaji in my last post, and I realized I know little to nothing about the man. That’s because Balaji began his career in the Indian team during one of the intermittent periods I stopped...
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Kudos To Sai Prasad Mohapatra’s Duncan Fletcher Scoop
Haven’t heard of him? Well, apparently he’s a cricket journalist and early in April, while the rest of us were speculating about Andy Flower and Stephen Fleming as the next India coach, Mohapatra...
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A Tale Of Two Medias: Duncan Fletcher As India Coach
Andrew Miller has a balanced take on Duncan Fletcher’s appointment as India coach. He focuses in particular on Fletcher’s strained relationship with the English press: [S]o much of this went...
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Best West Indies Board Meeting Ever
Sriram Veera’s latest dispatch from the West Indies makes for some compelling reading. It describes a heated meeting between Chris Gayle’s representatives and the West Indies Cricket Board, two parties...
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Mumbai Indians Caught Cheating?
Quite a catch from Cricinfo: Suryakumar Yadav, the batsman who was omitted from the Mumbai Indians squad for the Champions League T20 on account of injury, has scored an unbeaten 182 in an under-22...
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The Task of a Great Cricket Writer
I’m still shocked about the news on Peter Roebuck. I enjoyed his work, even though it was often uneven (as Sambit Bal notes in his surprisingly frank obit). I’m scared to hear what revelations the...
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Calling Usman Khawaja an ‘Asian’ Batsman
I discussed this problem on Twitter already, but I wanted to flesh out my thoughts a bit more. Yesterday, during the first day of the Test between Aus. and N.Z., Mark Nicholas said a shot by Usman...
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Just Who — Or What — Is Shane Watson?
Does anyone know what, who, or why Shane Watson is? Are we fascinated/infuriated with him because we cannot understand him? How can someone alternate so quickly and so often from injured to essential...
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Tendulkar Wants You To Feed Him
Dhoni, on his first encounter with Sachin Tendulkar: “I think that was in a Duleep Trophy match in Pune in 2000-01 or 2001-02 season. I was in East Zone squad and was carrying drinks. Tendulkar made...
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Diagnosing Australia
Jarrod Kimber has a fine essay on Cricinfo about all that ails Australia. It’s a beautiful piece, and I recommend it in full. That said, while I’m not nearly as smart or observant as Kimber (the little...
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