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Cricket Comes to Citi Field Revisited
The crepuscule of early November settles in Citi Field. The World Series is over, tho there are still faded signs stenciled outside the first-and-third-base lines proclaiming it. The mound has been flattened and covered, and there is a mostly dirt … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, India, Pakistan, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Website, South Africa, Sri Lanka, T20 Cricket, West Indies
Tagged Babe Ruth, Citi Field, Gil Hodges, Literature, Lou Gehrig, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ricky Ponting, rounders, Sachin Tendulkar, Shaun Pollock, sir curtly ambrose, Tom Seaver, World Series
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Cricket Comes to Citi Field
Evander and I (Martin) witnessed history on Saturday when we attended the first Cricket All-Stars T20 smackdown in Citi Field, home of the Mets baseball team, in Flushing, New York. The Cricket All-Stars featured a “who’s who” of the world’s … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Stadiums, T20 Cricket
Tagged Albert Goodwill Spalding, Allan Donald, Citifield, Courtney Walsh, Curtley Ambrose, Jacques Kallis, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, New York Mets, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne, Shaun Pollock, Shoaib Akhtar, Virender Sehwag
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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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Farewell King Kallis
First there was Rahul Dravid (in 2012); then there was Ricky Ponting (2012); and then Sachin Tendulkar (2013). Now Jacques Kallis—the greatest all-rounder of his generation—has retired from Test cricket. Tendulkar (15921), Ponting (13378), Kallis (13289), and Dravid (13288)—giants of … Continue reading
The Mumbai Indians: The Yankees of the IPL
Chock full of very well-paid if superannuated superstars—Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga—the Mumbai Indians are the New York Yankees of the IPL. Deep pockets and the biggest media market in India can’t buy you success, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, IPL, T20 Cricket, Yankees
Tagged Adam Gilchrist, Brad Hodge, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Mumbai Indians, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar
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Do Your Homework
The longest and most deeply held rivalry in the history of cricket is that between England and Australia—a contest known as “The Ashes.” Since 1877, these teams have been duking it out: barring two world wars, when the countries were … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Baseball, Cricket, England, India, New Zealand
Tagged Alastair Cook, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Ricky Ponting, Shane Watson, The Ashes, World Cup
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Punter’s Last Pull
Former Australian captain and all-time great Ricky Ponting, a.k.a. “Punter,” has announced his retirement from international cricket, having amassed nearly 27,500 runs and 71 centuries at a very, very healthy average. Ponting was a hard man to warm to: he … Continue reading
Hot Stove Cricket
The Major League Baseball season has come to an end. For all those fans of the pastime who dread a desolate few months without the sound of bat hitting ball, may we direct your attention to a winter of fascinating … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Baseball, Cricket, England, India, South Africa
Tagged Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, Major League Baseball, Ricky Ponting, Vernon Philander
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Sachin Finally Does It
It wasn’t exactly a crunch game; nor was the opposition (Bangladesh) the fiercest; nor was the location (Mirpur) a locus classicus for cricket lovers. But no one will remember the place or opposition—or even the fact that India still managed … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, Cricket, India, One-Day Cricket, Test Cricket
Tagged Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar
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Explaining Cricket Stats: Part Four
This is the penultimate entry in our tour through the labyrinth of cricket statistics: parts One, Two, and Three should be read in advance. So, slide four, please. By this time, you should know that Australia, who are batting, have … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, One-Day Cricket
Tagged Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Ricky Ponting, World Cup
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