Category Archives: World Trip

Most Beautiful Cricket Grounds

Posted on March 12, 2015 by thecricketcouch

Kathleen and I are nearing the end of our 262-day trip around the cricketing world. We wrote a piece for Mint Newspaper about the five of the most beautiful cricket ground we came across on our trip. In no particular … 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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BBC Interviews

Posted on August 24, 2014 by thecricketcouch

Kathleen and I were interviewed on two separate BBC networks and programs in the last few days. First on the BBC Asian Network by the entertaining and charming host Nihal (@TheRealNihal) on August 22, 2014 along the sidelines of the … Continue reading →

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Wanderers CC, 3 W’s and West Indies Legends

Posted on August 14, 2014 by thecricketcouch

In the Caribbean, if you trip and fall, chances are that you will land on something or someone historic. That’s even more so when it comes to cricket. The Caribbean is one of the last places in the cricketing world … Continue reading →

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Barbados: Foods

Posted on August 1, 2014 by thecricketcouch

Human nature is such that we always look for things we are familiar with when we are in unfamiliar surroundings. So it was that on our first day in Barbados, on our way to watch a CPL match, we saw … Continue reading →

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Barbados: Beach Cricket

Posted on July 28, 2014 by thecricketcouch

After a few days of chasing, scheduling and rescheduling, I got the opportunity to interview the great former West Indian opener Gordon Greenidge. He was in Port of Spain with his CPL team Trinidad Red Steel and so I called … Continue reading →

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World Trip: Barbados

Posted on July 25, 2014 by thecricketcouch

In the last two years, we have been to Trinidad (3 times), Antigua, Jamaica (twice) but the early impressions of Barbados is that it is unlike any of the Caribbean nation we have been to. It almost has an upscale … Continue reading →

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Meeting Colin Croft

Posted on July 24, 2014 by thecricketcouch

Presence. Colin Croft has it. The towering height, booming voice and an infectious smile make him the center of attention everywhere he goes. He doesn’t take himself as a former West Indies cricketer too seriously (“I don’t get you guys … Continue reading →

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Trinidad: The Foods

Posted on July 23, 2014 by thecricketcouch

This is my third time in Trinidad and almost every time I have spent all my time just in Port of Spain. It’s an interesting town with a mixture of old influences and industrial landscapes, rumbling with typical metro-like expansions … Continue reading →

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