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Doosra!

Not that I know more about spin bowling than Shane Warne, but the campaign to ban ‘Doosra’ is weird, espeically when you look at what the Aussie spin fretarnity has decided:
It was a judgment based on the shared belief that the doosra, pioneered by Pakistani spinner Saqlain Mushtaq in the 1990s and since adopted by [...]

T20 grows cricket

Peter Roebuck argues T20 is working wonders for the game. Persuasive stuff.

More on T20 World Cup

I watched a lot of T20 World Cup games and was glad that Pakistan won. After the Lahore attack on Sri Lankan cricketers, this was a much needed boost for Pakistani cricket. No cricket lover would like to see the game suffer in Pakistan, especially at the domestic level. Even if no international cricket is [...]

A painful confession from a purist

I kinda like Twenty20 cricket. It mostly reminds me of how we played - both in real life and in our fantasies.
Also, both in IPL-2 and in the ongoing second Twenty20 World Cup, bowlers, especially the good ones, have some say. That has also been a surprise.

The Entitlements of being a Cricketer

Sidarth Monga has a remarkable story in Cricinfo on Ewen Chatfield, the former New Zealand medium pacer. Monga reports that Chatfield now drives taxi for a living. For someone who played 43 test matches and 114 ODIs and took over 260 international wickets, Chatfield displays no sense of entitlement.
A refreshing contrast to our cricketers, who [...]

A Job Done Well

The most-written, over-hyped, over-NBCed (rest of the world is lucky that it is not subjected to NBC’s ghastly coverage of Olympics) Olympic hero Michael Phelps (and his coach, Bob Bowman) nevertheless must have this feeling of true satisfaction. Everything they had planned, hoped and aspired for worked out. Beyond all the money and fame, [...]