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No nerds, these Bengaluru Cricketers!

After the KSCA elections, Harsha Bhogle had a fascinating set of interviews Anil Kumble, Sanjay Manjrekar and Prof. Ratnakar Shetty on his ”Time Out with Harsha Bhogle” online talk show. While cricketers have been in charge of cricket administration in the past, including in Karnataka, I was struck by what Manjrekar and Shetty had to [...]

Sights and sounds from Gangothri Glades

Here is what our informants saw and heard during the Ranji Trophy match between Karnataka and Baroda at the Gangothri Glades.

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The stands filled with school children, Mysore University students and old retirees, watching the game intently. Good stuff.
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KSCA invitees stand begins to fill up around 11:30, half-hour before lunch. Young and old, [...]

On boring draws and sustaining spectator interest

To sit in the stands at Gangothri Glades, Mysore, away from the Press box and KSCA invited guest stands, is to realize the great challenge domestic cricket in India faces. Upwards of three thousand spectators are always present in this pretty little stadium, and their cheerful presence is a constant reminder of what’s missing in [...]

Game Changers?

(Cross posted in Churumuri)
It is said that leading the Indian cricket team is the second hardest job after the Indian prime ministership.
We may add a new truism: being an Indian fast bowler is perhaps the third most difficult job.
Now, that Anil Radhakrishna Kumble and Javagal Chandrashekhar Srinath have won the elections to [...]

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.