Author Archives: thecricketcouch

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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The Antigua Pitch

Posted on July 24, 2016 by thecricketcouch

The first Test of the WI v India series reached in to the final session on Day 4, with India registering an innings win by 92 runs, their largest win outside Asia. R Ashwin has continued his remarkable bowling form … Continue reading →

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Hypocrisy of BBC Sport

Posted on July 4, 2016 by thecricketcouch

BBC Sport, in the cricket section of its website where the headlines are collated, reported on the three wicket haul of Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir in the warm-up game vs. Somerset, with the headline “Spot-fixer Amir takes three wickets on return“. The … Continue reading →

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Cricket Conversations: On Test Cricket with Jarrod Kimber

Posted on June 29, 2016 by thecricketcouch

I started a new initiative on this blog way back in May 2013 called “Cricket Conversations” which involves email back-and-forth on a variety of topics with bloggers, writers, fans and journalists. The first of the Cricket Conversations was with Siddartha Vaidyanathan … Continue reading →

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On Kumble’s Appointment as India’s Head Coach

Posted on June 23, 2016 by thecricketcouch

Anil Kumble, cricketer extraordinaire, has been appointed as the head coach of the India (men’s) cricket team by the BCCI for the duration of one year, today. From the original list of 57 candidates which was pruned to 21, the … Continue reading →

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