CricketWag

We keep hearing about how important the IPL is for Indian cricket and for nurturing Indian talent. Yards of column space have been devoted to how the tournament enables young Indian cricketers to rub shoulders with the best of the world.
Well, if it is that important, why has the Indian cricket team for the 2020 [...]

A few years ago, Sunil Gavaskar had expressed his concern at the fact that Indian players were handing out their jerseys and caps to their fans after matches. The legendary opener had pointed out that these clothes had been earned by the players and could not (and should not) be handed out at random. I [...]

Media can now focus its undivided attention on IPL as the marathon New Zealand tour is over and there are no more speculations required on how the pitches are going to be. We’ll soon see TV channels resort to desperate measures as they grab a thirty second slice of information and stretch it into a [...]

As Dhoni’s boys return victorious from New Zealand, one cannot help but stand and applaud the only Indian team to have won a test series there in the last forty one years. They are continuing their march towards cricketing supremacy and deserve most of the plaudits they are getting along the way. But sitting through [...]

The more I listen to the media coverage of cricket, the more convinced I feel that the fellers reporting on the game have a different dictionary. For instance, the TV channels right now are overrun with announcers bleating that Dhoni’s men have “made history” by winning in New Zealand. Well, I am dashed if I [...]

One of the most common refrains heard in the media yesterday was that India had set New Zealand an “impossible” target of 617 to win the final Test and square the series. Now, Adidas (”Impossible is nothing”) did not pay us to write this post (we have no problems if they offer to, though), but [...]

India might end up winning this Test, but they do have to learn how not to make things difficult for themselves. I mean, they had the Kiwis begging to be finished off in both innings of the first Test, but insisted on letting them get past 250 on each occasion. Today has been no different [...]