Scums of society

A terrible few days for India. The scums of society killed over 100 and injured as many as 300... Scums. Great officers who have dedicated their lives in getting rid of these scum bags have fallen. My sincere condolences to the families affected by this madness. I also hope that the friends and families of our blogger folks in Mumbai like John, Homer and the rest are safe and sound. The England tour is off and so should follow the champions league. Cricket is the last thing in the mi...

The wall 2.0

I am totally stunned by this young lad from Saurashtra and equally so with the phrase 'The wall 2.0' which I cannot quite remember who coined that on Soulberry's blog. I remember first reading about him in a discussion in cricket guru's and Soulberry's blog. SB revisits Cheteshwar Pujara back then and today Ottayan here reckons that it is time to forget Yuvraj and give Pujara the right to have the first shot in International cricket during the England series. Pujara first came into t...

Accepting the ICL

Our friend Wasim has put up an elaborate and detailed post on the rather difficult issue of the ICL, its role and the way forward. http://cricketfiles.com/2008/11/21/lift-the-bans/ Hope we could all join in for a discussion over there on the way forward. Cheers

Let there be light ICC

What a downer! For the first time in this series, the game became very competitive in the match between England and India, going down 'almost' to the wire and bad light stopped play. Yeah I know... It was like getting close to an ejaculation and then being asked to make your next move in Chess. Out came the officials with their rather favorite and complicated Duckworth & Lewis African 'mumbo jumbo'. You ever wondered why these officials like the D&L mumbo jumbo so much. One, ...

Powerplay checkmate

The second one-day game between India and England lingered on boring dull passages of play, until all of a sudden everything gets shaken up with the new rules of powerplay... The batsman's powerplay of choice. The umpire hands out his signal. Butterflies flutter around crazily searching for their ex's. Buffaloes run free in the city streets grunting in orgasmic excitement. The coaches choke on their network cables. The 12th man swallows his bracelets. You get it. Everyone wakes...