Obnoxious Weeds: In happier times
I’ve been indifferent to T20 cricket from the very beginning, apathetic even, unbecoming of my self-professed love for the game. But then, I am a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to cricket; give me test cricket any day. Hard grind, survival of the fittest and all that nonsense that [...]
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I’ve been busy for the past couple of months with this mindfuckery called education. Today was no different - It’s a Saturday and here I am at home trying to eek out a project management proposal for a project that doesn’t really exist. Sigh. Decided to take a break and so pointed my [...]
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Jayantha Dharmadasa will quit Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) paving the way for Arjuna Ranatunga to take over. Read more here. Now, I’ve been a strong advocate of Ranatunga heading SLC ever since he quit international cricket, but it’s taken six years for this to come to fruition.
I came across this article concerning the SLC elections [...]
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Jayasuriya holds a special place in the hearts and minds of cricket fans the world over, never mind those of us in Sri Lanka. From 1995, his exploits with the bat are stuff of legend. The memories are many: his assault on the English bowling attack in the 1996 World Cup Quarter Final, the dismantling [...]
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A bit late, I know, but couldn’t access WordPress from work.
Congratulations, good sir. You are an inspiration to us all.
Here’s a selection of tributes to Murali written by cricket journos around the world:
Michael Marqusee writes on the vagueness of the original chucking laws:
“The definition of a throw appears less clear-cut than was supposed. The [...]
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I have many reasons why I love the game of cricket, test cricket in particular. If you were to ask me for only one, I would say that test cricket is the most Darwinian sport out there. It is not merely an examination of physical endurance over five days, but equally one of mental fortitude. [...]
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Posted in 2007, Cricket, tagged , , chokers, Cricket, jacques kallis, south africa, twenty 20, world cup on September 22, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Most cricket fans I know, including a few local bloggers, get pretty excited at the prospect of Australia crashing out of an important tournament (I, for one, do not think the circus that is Twenty 20 World Cup should be viewed as “important”, but that’s a topic for another day). I, on the other hand, [...]
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Posted in 2007, Cricket on August 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Lovely little diary entry from Siddhartha Vaidyanathan of Cricinfo on his meeting with Frank Duckworth - one half of the famous Duckworth-Lewis duo. As cricket fans, we love to hate both gents and their damn equation. Rather unfair really. Without their method, a score of 22 runs off 7 balls will inexplicably be re-calculated to [...]
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We made our way to the new rendezvous point. The guys weren’t keen on going out to watch the match because it was raining. But they didn’t have a TV antenna – “yet” – and I wanted to kick Shanjei’s testicles.
The “yet” comment calmed me down a bit so I sat back. Match hadn’t started [...]
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Posted in 2007, Cricket on April 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Note: This post was made as soon as Dilhara Fernando caught the catch to get rid of Patel.
Sri Lanka are into the world cup final. Again. This is not a post for some rambling sentimentality. I’ll just say this though: OH HELL YES! Oh sweet hell yeessssssss! I never thought I’d see it happen [...]
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