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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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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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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
The Debut to End All Debuts
You’re a batter who’s reached the age of twenty-seven, scoring freely and often in the minor leagues, and yet you’ve been prevented from entering the majors because the guy you’d be replacing is a slugger of such renown that to … Continue reading
Farewell to The Wall
Rahul Dravid, for sixteen years the seemingly impregnable foundation of an extraordinarily talented Indian batting line up, has announced his retirement from international cricket at the age of 39. He hadn’t had a particularly successful recent tour of Australia. But … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, India
Tagged Literature, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, V. V. S. Laxman, Virender Sehwag
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The Fight to Be Number One
It is a truth universally acknowledged (or at least it is in the world of international cricket) that teams visiting the Indian subcontinent are as unable to cope with the mysteries of spin generated by pitch and weather conditions in … Continue reading
The Incredible Draw: West Indies v. India—Part II
One of the curiosities of Test cricket (at least to fans of baseball) is the fact that a game of cricket can go on for five days and still end in a situation where no team is declared a winner: … Continue reading
It’s India
India are the 2011 World Cup Champions. Amid scenes of sweeping emotion, dancing, and unfettered joy, befitting a game that took place in Mumbai, home of India’s mammoth movie industry, the Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, smote … Continue reading
India versus Pakistan
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
Posted in Cricket, India, One-Day Cricket, Pakistan
Tagged Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Virender Sehwag, World Cup
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Australia versus India: The Big One
It was meant to be the final: the Australians, reigning champions and looking to win for a world-record fourth time in succession, versus the Indians, a team packed full of superstars, who have 1.2 billion people rooting for them and … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, One-Day Cricket
Tagged Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Shaun Tait, Virender Sehwag, World Cup
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Right Off the Bat 