Tag Archives: New Zealand

Short Jabs: Episode 1

Guests: Michael Wagener, Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, Shrikant “Homer” Subramanian In this inaugural episode, Cricket blogger Michael Wagener stops by to talk about New Zealand’s disastrous series in South Africa in the “Opening Spell”, Siddhartha Vaidyanathan opines on the recent Indian selectoral … Continue reading

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How to make a 4-hour flight to Antigua in to 12 hours of running around Manhattan?

It was a pretty simple, straightforward plan. Take the bus to Manhattan. Take the NYC Airporter to JFK. Fly out to Antigua. Watch cricket. I did not account for one thing – the fact that I am an idiot. You … Continue reading

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Couch Talk 51 with Peter Della Penna, USA Cricket Reporter

In this episode, USA Cricket Correspondent for ESPN Cricinfo and DreamCricket.com, Peter Della Penna, talks about the T20s recently held in Florida between the West Indies and New Zealand, and compares them to the ones held between Sri Lanka and … Continue reading

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15-hour bender of Test Cricket

It was set up perfectly. Plan was to be done with work at 4 PM Friday EST and welcome the weekend by immersing myself for the next 15 hours in uninterrupted test cricket with three matches happening in New Zealand, … Continue reading

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New post at “CricAges”

Just posted an article over at CricAges “All quiet on the western front. So far” dealing with the state of cricket in the USA. Have a read and submit comments to let us know what your thoughts are on this. … Continue reading

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Backyard Cricket

I grew up in a small town in Tamilnadu with my 6 older brothers and the initial seeds for what later on became an obsession – Cricket, were sown there. My brothers were part of the local cricket team and … Continue reading

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A Broken Bond

As some of you may know, a few friends and I, went to the Caribbean in 2007 to watch the super six stage of the world cup tournament. We had planned on watching the India games, which would’ve been against … Continue reading

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What is wrong with South Africa?

South Africa came in to the T20 world cup as one of the contenders, in spite of all the baggage they have been carrying ever since their re-entry to world cricket in 1990-91. Some of their players featured in the … Continue reading

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