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The Spectacle of an India v. Pakistan World Cup Game
It was projected that over 1.1 billion people would watch the World Cup game between India and Pakistan, which took place on February 15th. (By contrast, the most recent Super Bowl was watched by somewhere in the vicinity of 100 million people.) Indian fans will always … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, India, Pakistan, Right Off the Bat Website
Tagged Sachin Tendulkar, The Ashes, World Cup
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The Cricket World Cup: Day 2
Martin here: We’ve now had four games in the World Cup 2015 and the shape of the tournament is already pretty clear (at least in my judgment). Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and India are, barring miracles or meltdowns, going to cruise through … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe
Tagged World Cup
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A Great Supporting Player: Misbah-ul-haq
Sport, unlike anything else we know, provides us with so many heroes and antiheroes. But there are also character actors—actors that never become the A-list, yet have served their roles with the same or generally a better level of equanimity … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, One-Day Cricket, Pakistan, T20 Cricket
Tagged Choke in Mohali, Glenn McGrath, Misbah-ul-haq, Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Steve Waugh, T20, World Cup
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The Cricket World Cup: A Preview, Part 1
Every four years, the world’s top cricket teams gather to play a series of one-day internationals (ODIs)—the 50-over form of the game—to determine who is the best. It’s the nearest thing that cricket gets to a competition that the entire … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, New Zealand, One-Day Cricket, Sri Lanka
Tagged Angelo Mathews, Brendon McCullum, Corey Anderson, David Warner, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Williamson, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Michael Clarke, Mitchell Johnson, Rahul Dravid, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ross Taylor, Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Watson, Steven Smith, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Virat Kohli, Virender Sehwag, World Cup
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Is This the End of the West Indies as a Cricketing Entity?
For reasons that were at once predictable and shocking, the past week has seen developments that it’s not being grandiose to say may lead to the end of the West Indies cricket team. In a dispute over money (isn’t it … Continue reading
What the Hell Happened to England?
How about this for an opening sentence, following England’s third defeat in a row to India in their current one-day five-match series? By the end of a game that had all the competitive elements of a day of seal clubbing, there … Continue reading
What the Hell Happened to India?
Reader: Consider two cricket teams—India and England—both alike in dignity. Both sides are in transition: even though their star players may have departed to the skyboxes and commentary positions, both teams are blessed with plenty of youthful talent—to wit, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya … Continue reading
Brendon Goes Big
New Zealand’s cricket side has always punched above its weight—putting in performances that belie its small population and lack of financial resources relative to Australia. It currently ranks a lowly eighth (out of ten) in the ICC World Test Rankings, … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, India, New Zealand, Test Cricket
Tagged B. J. Watling, Brendon McCullum, Jimmy Neesham
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Farewell, Sachin
Regular Right Off the Bat readers (we few, we happy few) will have noticed that the cricket half of this blog has fallen silent for the last few weeks. Life has taken your cricket correspondent away from the blog for … Continue reading
The Champions League: Damp Squib and Indian Triumph
It’s been a few weeks of silence from the cricket half of this blog as I (Martin) assume American citizenship and put my house in order. Nonetheless, cricket has continued, and thus needs to be reported on. The 2013 Indian … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, India, IPL, One-Day Cricket
Tagged Literature
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