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This blog attempts to function as a confluence of thoughts from the blogosphere on any matters pertaining to international cricket.
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Not too long ago, India's captain, MS Dhoni, was being hailed for his worker bee grade of professionalism. Now, his team mates, and to some extent he himself, would only be given a B-grade for their work. Even his famously metronomic coach, whose...
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The way the English and the Australians have been treating the forthcoming Ashes for more than a year now, any of those "new eyeballs" (that the IPL and/or the World T20 might have managed to capture) that fall upon the build up can't be...
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As the ECB's marketing team ensures that The Ashes will scatter all over the cricket landscape in the next few weeks a familiar pre-Ashesquestion also makes in customary (at least from the evidence of the last 4 campaigns) rounds: Will Steven Harmison...
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A lot had been expressed about the supposed loss of luster of the Australian cricket stars ever since they were beaten by India in India last year.That is just another tribute to the dominance of the Australian cricket team over their counterparts who...
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India won easily. And they won the match by winning each session played over the five days. Andy Bull thinks that we now have four teams who can beat each other on a regular basis: Australia, India, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Bull is thinking of a watershed...
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What a difference a week makes. In the first Test, Australia looked in charge most of the time, in the second they look like they've lost their way and more. Of the Indian batsmen, only Dravid and Laxman have yet to cash in against a distinctly poor...
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With the India Australia series upon us, predictions and prognostications are coming in thick and fast. Jrod is forced to conclude that neither side will win . I don't think Jrod is suggesting a draw... Homer, on the other hand, thinks it won't...
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Ottayan has a thoughtful post on the treatment of Trescothick by the ECB : In the macho world of sports, a player who exhibits mental fragility more often than not is treated dismissively and sarcastically. In Trescothick’s case, the English team management...
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Soulberry has put together a sort of tribute to Andrew Symonds : People I have interacted with before on BBC's boards might recall of those positive views of mine. They might recall my support for Symonds' inclusion into the test team way back...
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Do you know what Don Bradman's Test average is? Of course you do. Except, apparently, you don't. Via Ottayan comes news that Charles Davis, a cricket-mad statistician, says he's uncovered a possible missing four runs from Bradman's record...
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Much electronic ink has been refreshed on the topic of the Champions Trophy and playing in Pakistan. Here's Amit Bajaj's take on the contrast between the BCCI and ACA : The ACA has given more weightage to the report given by Reg Dickason, based...
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Homer reports that England's players are not happy about playing in a winner-takes-all care of Stanford. From the Daily Mail article Homer links to: The players are keen to take part in the annual big-money match at Stanford's private ground in...
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David Barry has another excellent followup statistics post. The original was on batting strategies in the first innings of one day internationals: To take an extreme example, suppose you're a really bad team like Bangladesh, up against a team like...
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