Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Sunday at Melbourne was yet another failed effort by Team India as Australia easily trounced them in a one-sided game, in the opening ODI match of the Tri-nation series. Some hopes were raised of an Indian revival following the impressive victory in the 2nd T20, which helped them square the two-match series. However, it was back to square one on Sunday. Like it has been throughout the tour, India were impressive in phases but could not capitalise on the advantage and allowed the opposition to get away easily. Vinay Kumar was extremely impressive as India bowled first, being rewarded with the big scalps of David Warner and Ricky Ponting in the process. After that though it was all one-way traffic as India lost the plot post the three-hour rain break. When it came to their batting, there was little to inspire confidence as the Aussie pacers meticulously plotted the downfall of the insipid Indians.
By: The Pinch Hitter
Ever since The Pinch Hitter was introduced to cricket at the age of nine, he fell in love with the gentleman’s game. While his desire to take up the sport professionally remained unfulfilled, he substituted the bat with the pen. And since 2003, he has been commenting on the sport for various magazines, websites, enjoying every moment of it. With ‘Over the top’ he hopes to continue enlightening and enlivening ‘cricket companions’ the write way.
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
With Pakistan beginning to consolidate themselves as team under the astute Misbah-ul-Haq as leader, there seems to be little chance of the banned trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir returning to their squad once their banned terms come to an end. Of course, Pakistan are struggling to find a suitable replacement for Amir and Asif, with Umar Gul being the only good and experienced fast bowler around. But then five years is a long time and by then, Amir may well be the forgotten talent of Pakistan cricket.
By: The Pinch Hitter
Ever since The Pinch Hitter was introduced to cricket at the age of nine, he fell in love with the gentleman’s game. While his desire to take up the sport professionally remained unfulfilled, he substituted the bat with the pen. And since 2003, he has been commenting on the sport for various magazines, websites, enjoying every moment of it. With ‘Over the top’ he hopes to continue enlightening and enlivening ‘cricket companions’ the write way.
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
There was nothing surprising about Tillakaratne Dilshan stepping down as captain (or being forced to do so as some reports suggest), nine months after having taken up the coveted post. After all, during his tenure at the helm of the Sri Lankan team, his side has hardly won anything. Ever since making it to the World Cup final against India at the Wankhede Stadium, the Lankans have been on a losing spree, which has coincided with the term of Dilshan as skipper. What’s more, Dilshan himself has been in miserable form which hasn’t helped matters one bit.
By: The Pinch Hitter
Ever since The Pinch Hitter was introduced to cricket at the age of nine, he fell in love with the gentleman’s game. While his desire to take up the sport professionally remained unfulfilled, he substituted the bat with the pen. And since 2003, he has been commenting on the sport for various magazines, websites, enjoying every moment of it. With ‘Over the top’ he hopes to continue enlightening and enlivening ‘cricket companions’ the write way.
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Mike Brearley’s view that jailed Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Amir should be shown some mercy, at the Voice of Cricket Lecture at the Raj Singh Dungarpur World Cricket Summit in Mumbai, ought to be given serious consideration by the authorities that matter. For one, Brearley is among the most respected ‘voices of cricket’. And secondly, he gave enough valid justifications for his take. According to the former England captain, there is an ‘appalling’ amount of pressure on young players to fix spots or matches and, if they are willing to admit their wrongdoings, and ready to join the fight to root out corruption in cricket, they should to be given a second chance. In Amir’s case, he pleaded guilty to his charges, and so his case should be considered as different from that of Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, the two others jailed for the spot fixing offence, according to Brearley.
By: The Pinch Hitter
Ever since The Pinch Hitter was introduced to cricket at the age of nine, he fell in love with the gentleman’s game. While his desire to take up the sport professionally remained unfulfilled, he substituted the bat with the pen. And since 2003, he has been commenting on the sport for various magazines, websites, enjoying every moment of it. With ‘Over the top’ he hopes to continue enlightening and enlivening ‘cricket companions’ the write way.
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly’s explosive claim on a news channel that his successor Rahul Dravid did not have the guts to stop ex-coach Greg Chappell from his ‘wrongdoing’ has come as a bit of a shocker. More than the hard-hitting nature of the statement, it is the timing that is incomprehensible. The Indian cricket team, including Dravid, is already in Australia, and Ganguly could have done better than make a scathing remark, which would only rake up another controversy during a tour Down Under, and might even affect the performance of the team – all this for some TRPs! Coming for an ex-Indian skipper who has led most of the players in the current squad, it is saddening. This is not to say that Ganguly does not have a right to express his opinion. But, such exposes are best reserved for a book through which cricketers look back at their careers.
By: The Pinch Hitter
Ever since The Pinch Hitter was introduced to cricket at the age of nine, he fell in love with the gentleman’s game. While his desire to take up the sport professionally remained unfulfilled, he substituted the bat with the pen. And since 2003, he has been commenting on the sport for various magazines, websites, enjoying every moment of it. With ‘Over the top’ he hopes to continue enlightening and enlivening ‘cricket companions’ the write way.
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
A number of Australian players who are likely to be seen in action against India in the forthcoming Test series are part of the Big Bash League, the Australia’s domestic T20 competition which is currently underway. And while it is not bad for the cricketers to be involved in competitive cricket prior to what is expected to be a testing series, a T20 tournament is a far from ideal preparation for five day games. The two versions of the game are like chalk and cheese, and the selectors will be taking a massive risk if they take into account T20 performances while choosing the team for the India series, for very few T20 players have succeeded at the Test level.
By: The Pinch Hitter
Ever since The Pinch Hitter was introduced to cricket at the age of nine, he fell in love with the gentleman’s game. While his desire to take up the sport professionally remained unfulfilled, he substituted the bat with the pen. And since 2003, he has been commenting on the sport for various magazines, websites, enjoying every moment of it. With ‘Over the top’ he hopes to continue enlightening and enlivening ‘cricket companions’ the write way.
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Friday, December 16th, 2011
Cricket pundits unanimously agree that the upcoming series Down Under will present India with its best opportunity to overcome Australia in the latter’s backyard. Aussies’ struggles against New Zealand and South Africa prior to that corroborate this view. India’s preparations going into the four Test series too will be better as opposed to the series [...]
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The empty stands at Eden Gardens in Kolkata — the home of cricket in India — during the second Test between India and West Indies was a blaring example that the five-day format of the game is losing out to ODIs and T20s, and a stark reminder that a lot needs to be done to resurrect the game. Ironically, in the very same week, the International Cricket Council (ICC) came out with its decision to postpone the World Test Championship, which was likely to be held in 2013. The event will now not be held until 2017 owing to the schedule being packed until then, and other sponsorship reasons. Sadly, there is no guarantee that the championship will be held after 2017 as well. In short, Test cricket stands to lose the most and, yet, the sport’s governing body is ready to put at stake the future of the most sacred version of the game.
By: The Pinch Hitter
Ever since The Pinch Hitter was introduced to cricket at the age of nine, he fell in love with the gentleman’s game. While his desire to take up the sport professionally remained unfulfilled, he substituted the bat with the pen. And since 2003, he has been commenting on the sport for various magazines, websites, enjoying every moment of it. With ‘Over the top’ he hopes to continue enlightening and enlivening ‘cricket companions’ the write way.
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
“Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar!”
What can one write about the phenomenon that hasn’t been written before? Even the average cricket fan can churn out thesis after thesis on the Little Master. It is least surprising then that there is so much hullabaloo over the 100th international century that has eluded Tendulkar for quite a while now. In the meantime, he also completed 15,000 Test runs recently, another highly celebrated achievement. And one can guarantee there are many more to follow. The list is already quite long – most matches, most runs, most centuries, highest ODI score, and so on…
By: The Pinch Hitter
Ever since The Pinch Hitter was introduced to cricket at the age of nine, he fell in love with the gentleman’s game. While his desire to take up the sport professionally remained unfulfilled, he substituted the bat with the pen. And since 2003, he has been commenting on the sport for various magazines, websites, enjoying every moment of it. With ‘Over the top’ he hopes to continue enlightening and enlivening ‘cricket companions’ the write way.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
These are testing times for Australian cricket. Any team which gets bowled out of 47 in a Test match has to be extremely worried. Though that performance might have been a one-off, their overall record in recent times hasn’t been encouraging as well. They went down without a fight to India in India and were hammered embarrassingly at home in the Ashes. Yes, they did manage a credible victory in Sri Lanka, but they haven’t been convincing or consistent for a while now. The fact that aging warrior Ricky Ponting hasn’t been in form (his last Test century was in January last year) has not helped matters. Further, other experienced guys like Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson have also been disappointing incessantly. Left-handed Michael Hussey has been the only exception, piling on the runs amidst the wreckage around him. But cricket, being a team game, one man’s performance cannot influence things drastically, which has been the case in recent times.
By: The Pinch Hitter
Ever since The Pinch Hitter was introduced to cricket at the age of nine, he fell in love with the gentleman’s game. While his desire to take up the sport professionally remained unfulfilled, he substituted the bat with the pen. And since 2003, he has been commenting on the sport for various magazines, websites, enjoying every moment of it. With ‘Over the top’ he hopes to continue enlightening and enlivening ‘cricket companions’ the write way.
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