Category Archives: Pakistan

Watching “Empire of Cricket”

Posted on December 11, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

The 2009 BBC production Empire of Cricket is highly (and I, Evander, mean highly) recommended to all baseball fans in the throes of this fallow, no-baseball, hot-stove league/Winter Meetings period. The series is comprised of one-hour episodes devoted to the … Continue reading →

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Test Match Cricket Is Back

Posted on November 3, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

After a frenzy of one-day internationals, Test match cricket (the version of the game that separates the men from the boys, and the women from the girls) is back! And it’s providing some interesting stories. Zimbabwe, once (late 19990s) an … Continue reading →

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Guilty!

Posted on November 2, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

It’s a story so big that it’s hard to know, like the blind men touching the proverbial elephant, just how big or even exactly what the story is. Two Pakistan players—Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif—were yesterday found guilty of “spot-fixing” during … Continue reading →

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Trial and (Deliberate) Error

Posted on October 11, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

The trial of the men allegedly behind the match- and spot-fixing scandal that threatened to derail the Test and one-day series between England and Pakistan in 2010 has finally come to pass, and seedy revelation is being piled on seedy … Continue reading →

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Lights! Camera! No Ball!

Posted on April 26, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

Away from the hurly-burly of the Indian Premier League, the bright lights of Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies, Sri Lanka’s forthcoming tour of England, and any of the professional domestic tournaments, the game of cricket continues to be played … Continue reading →

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It’s India versus Sri Lanka

Posted on March 30, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

After two less-than-nailbiting semi-finals, two home favorites have made it through to the final. Sri Lanka brought New Zealand’s dream run to an end in the first semi-final with a quasi-clinical deconstruction of the Black Caps inadequate total of 217. … Continue reading →

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India versus Pakistan

Posted on March 27, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

They’ve fought three wars between them; they both have nuclear weapons; they possess the greatest cricket rivalry outside of England versus Australia; and they’re going head-to-head in the semi-final of the World Cup on Wednesday. On the one side, the … Continue reading →

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Go, Go Pakistan

Posted on March 23, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

First of all, thank you to Evander for his sterling work in keeping up with the dizzying merry-go-round that is the 2011 Cricket World Cup. We’re now in the knockout, quarter-final stages. The usual eight suspects went through, and now … Continue reading →

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The World Cup So Far

Posted on March 11, 2011 by rightoffthebatbook

So, we’re just over half way through the global one-day cricket shindig known as the World Cup, and there have been few surprises. The Associate Member nations—the second-tier cricketing teams that once every four years get to play with the … Continue reading →

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