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Friday, November 07, 2008
Ancient History of Test Cricket
Dr Pandey writes about the Ancient History of Test Cricket in his family blog.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Shocking
In the absence of technology other than standard definition, static, normal-speed television cameras, when the field umpires refer things like small edges and LBWs to the third, then they are almost never given out.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
I've come to demand an apology
Uh what for?
I don't appreciate being called a bastard!
Fair enough!
(turns around to rest of team)
Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?
Now that's an idea for Brad Hogg!
Monday, April 16, 2007
Set fucking Max!
When teams like Sri Lanka and Australia play, I'd like to watch some cricket please. I do not want to see Nathan Bracken's superb delivery take an edge and immediately have the pictures cut to Abhishek Bachchan shaking his head. When a commentator talks about Tom Moody's strategies, let him finish what he's saying. I do not want to see some fucking motorcycle ad now.
And are we stuck with these bastards for a few more world cups?
Monday, April 02, 2007
Kiwi Cup
My money is on New Zealand!
Labels: Cricket
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Now let's enjoy some Cricket
Now that India is well, almost out (and Woolmer's murder makes it difficult for a possible match-fixing syndicate to pay Bangladesh to lose) we can finally get to watch some real cricket featuring real cricket teams, real cricket players, and some real analysts and commentators.
Goodbye Mandira Bedi. Goodbye Charu Sharma. Goodbye 'Ritambara'. Goodbye terrible motorcycle adverts. Goodbye idiot journalists.
Update: India is out, so we can start looking at other debates rightaway.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Money and Sport
Viviana Zelizer talks about why we want to believe that money and intimacy do not go together. It does not take much to extend the discussion to include questions on why we also think (note: not necessarily act on our beliefs) that glorious and "patriotic" activities like sports suffer when money is involved.
It was interesting to see quite a few people dissing India's incredibly inane performance against the Bangladeshis by referring to the "obscene" amounts of money our chaps make in endorsements. (On that thought, I'd like to see the UPA run the Indian Cricket team—should be so much fun).
We sometimes get bad cricket not because our chaps are well-paid, but because Cricket enjoys a rather screwy monopoly. Or rather, the Indian Cricket team enjoys a monopoly status. (click here for some sports-economics juvenilia) Should I stretch the argument to say that it is because of the money that Indian cricket has better talent (and therefore the monopoly) than say Indian Football?
It is therefore nice to read newsreports that go: (linkthanks my boss)
We in India tend to rush out with tri-colours and wrap the dutiful nationalistic sentiment around every sporting achievement and be coy about money matters. Step into Sagroli village, and you won't grudge sportsmen the money they earn. Now, parroting the patriotic theme is common to Sagroli too. Teenaged runners from this arid, non-descript village in the Nanded district of eastern Maharashtra will voice their desire to represent the country at the next Olympics, and even bring home the gold. Once on the beaten, narrow state highway though, these trainees of the Sagroli Sunrise Project line up at the starting grid, keeping paper-chits in their pockets, which bear the amount they will earn if they cross the target-timing to complete a 7 km-daily route. "Trophies, certificates are all fine they make you happy for a day or a week. We want to be realistic theres no better incentive than money," says project convener Deepak Kanegaokar, who hands out cash in multiples of thousand. (very sic)
Labels: Cricket, Economics, Links
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Pock!
Since when have the Irish relished cricket?
Meanwhile it's a good day to be a Bengali.
Also Mandira Bedi has been highly unimpressive this year.
Pock!
