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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
World Trip: Diary #4
An edited version of this diary was first published on ESPN cricinfo. — Day 93: Aboard Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Dubai. Seeing the Business class cabin empty, make a joke to the airhostess that she should just let … Continue reading
Vale Phil Hughes
The permanence of it is the worst thing. That after the first shock, the terrible consuming grief, the community rallying, this one fact is unchangeable. That the initial suffering is only the beginning. That this is your life now, these … Continue reading
Couch Talk 138 with Rohan Pate, Blades of Glory Cricket Museum
In this episode, the owner and founder of “Blades of Glory”, the only cricket museum in India, Rohan Pate, talks about how he became a collector of cricket memorabilia, Sachin Tendulkar’s role in it, the various collections he has, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Blades of Glory, Couch Talk, Cricket Memorabilia, Cricket Museum, Podcast, Rohan Pate, Sachin Tendulkar
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Never Ever Again
The last week of November is Thanksgiving in the U.S. For the past two years, I have taken additional days off with those I get as the holidays from work, and traveled to India to watch Test matches. It so … Continue reading
Cricket Conversations: On Club Cricket with Gideon Haigh
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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Tagged Club Cricket, Cricket Conversations, Gideon Haigh, Penn State CC, Warriors CC, Yarras
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The BCCI’s role in World Cricket
This article was published in issue 109 of All Out Cricket Magazine and reproduced on their website as well. —- To say that cricket is at an intriguing stage in India right now would be a major understatement. Of course there … Continue reading
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Tagged BCCI, cricket administration, CSA, India, Jagmohan Dalmiya, N Srinivasan
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Sound of Silence
Over at ESPN Cricinfo’s Cordon blog, a post of mine on providing an option of cricket broadcast without the cliche ridden commentary is published. The thought itself isn’t new. It was tried in the U.S. in 1980 in the NFL … Continue reading
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Couch Talk at 100
The Couch Talk podcast came in to being to satisfy a long time wish of mine. The B.S. Report (of ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons) was a big motivation behind it. If he can, why can’t I? There was a niche still … Continue reading
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On Virat Kohli and Greatness
He is still a couple of months shy of being quarter century old. Yet, he has been in the national limelight already for 7 years. First as the captain of the successful India Under-19 team, then as the brash youngster … Continue reading
Couch Talk 94 with CKM Dhananjai, Performance Analyst, Team India
In this episode, performance analyst of Team India and Mumbai Indians, CKM Dhananjai talks about the responsibilities of his job, the use of analytics in improving the performance of the cricketers, his beginnings in this career etc. You can download … Continue reading
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Tagged CKM Dhananjai, Couch Talk, India, Mumbai Indians, Performance Analysis, Podcast, Statistics
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