Category Archives: Miscellaneous

ICC Code of Conduct Breaches and Penalties List

Posted on February 28, 2017 by thecricketcouch

In the February 2017 issue of The Cricket Monthly, Alok Prasanna Kumar wrote an essay “Crime and punishment” looking in to the “history of penalties and breaches under the ICC’s code of conduct”. He looked at the “penalties imposed on players from … Continue reading →

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Follow up #4 on “Ed Smith Pulls a Melania Trump”: Cricinfo Statement & Smith’s Silence

Posted on August 14, 2016 by thecricketcouch

Four days after ESPNCricinfo took down an article by Ed Smith titled “Why sportsmen need stress”, the editor Sambit Bal made a statement explaining this decision. The statement excludes elementary facts about the matter such as the title and publication … Continue reading →

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Follow up #3 on “Ed Smith Pulls a Melania Trump”: ESPNcricinfo’s Double Standard

Posted on August 8, 2016 by thecricketcouch

Rohan Sharma is a 28-year old young man, living in Toronto, Canada. He’s already undergone a couple of things that most of us will never go through, rather, never will wish to go through in our lives. He was diagnosed with … Continue reading →

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Follow up #2 on “Ed Smith pulls a Melania Trump”

Posted on August 2, 2016 by thecricketcouch

Since writing the first follow up on Saturday (July 30) to the initial blog post “Ed Smith pulls a Melania Trump“, I had been working various avenues and contacts to find the answer to the simple question: Did Ed Smith write the … Continue reading →

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Follow up on “Ed Smith pulls a Melania Trump”

Posted on July 30, 2016 by thecricketcouch

It has been more than two days since I put the post “Ed Smith pulls a Melania Trump” up. In that time, I had written to the Economist (“Letters to the editor”) to ascertain the author(s) of the piece “Stress: … Continue reading →

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Ed Smith pulls a Melania Trump

Posted on July 28, 2016 by thecricketcouch

Ed Smith, the former Kent and England batsman, current commentator for BBC Test Match Special, has a particular template to his columns and essays that he contributes to outlets like ESPNcricinfo. Among my circle of cricket friends, it is called … Continue reading →

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Nature v Nurture applied to Cricket

Posted on March 3, 2016 by thecricketcouch

Is it nature or is it nurture? This has been one of the long standing debates in psychology relating to the extent of certain aspects of behavior being a product of either inherited or acquired characteristics. More than a century … Continue reading →

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Return to First Principles

Posted on February 29, 2016 by thecricketcouch

I love Physics. I love Mathematics even more. There isn’t anything almost as elegant as a mathematical proof. Perhaps music and art would come close to it but I am a complete ignoramus in those two areas. I chose to … Continue reading →

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MiD DAY: Stephen Fleming on Mohit Sharma

Posted on March 12, 2015 by thecricketcouch

Hamilton: In the pack of fast bowlers that have played for India in this World Cup so far, Mohit Sharma is the ‘little man’. He doesn’t have the impressive fast bowler’s physique like Umesh Yadav nor does he have the pace … Continue reading →

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ICC 360 Interview

Posted on March 8, 2015 by thecricketcouch

Kathleen and I were recently interviewed on the TV program ICC 360 about our trip around the cricketing world. It was filmed outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground before the India v South Africa match. Thanks are to Veeru Murugappan for … Continue reading →

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