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...

Open season

In all the hurry and blurry lines of cricket played here (India-Aus, ICL) and abroad, let's not forget that a possibly exciting domestic season is underway. Do catch all the action on Soulberry's 'The cricket watchers journal' and his dedicated Indian domestic cricket blog 'The Ranji trophy Chronicles'. And Yes, Soulberry is Riddick - an alien, in case none of you didn't know. Also now that you have teams like red, green and blue... how about a toss being the case where the winning capt...

Clash of the Indian and Australian fringes

There is no better way to kick start the domestic season in India with a lovely series between India 'A' and Australia 'A'. For the national team of both these countries, change is looming large and this series is crucial for all the fringe players to make a mark. I was excited in the prospects of watching Tait make his comeback in this series only to be disappointed that they did not include him. The thought of a missed opportunity of bashing Tait all over again in this blog is depressing... I ...

Is the BCCIs “catch ‘em when they are young” policy working?

Oh no! I would not want to believe so in such a meaningless system. I was deeply disappointed to know about the selection of Kohli and Ojha into the national team for the Sri Lankan series. It is not that I have something against them. These two are fine players who should in some time given their talent hopefully make it into the team. However where in this world today are their places being earned. A U19 player with a few fine performances under his belt automatically means a direct fast-track...

India crowned u19 world champions

Congratulations team India To be honest, more than the Commonwealth series, the u19 world cup finals was something which I was really looking forward to. India beat South Africa to clinch the championship in a rain affected match. The only sad aspect of this tournament was just like the commonwealth series, there were many matches affected by rain and a true contest was robbed. It has been three world cups in a row that India has made it to the finals and this shows that the development pr...