Spin, Bounce and Turn | Jamie Alter
I remember it like it was last week. A January evening in Bombay, during the winter holidays from boarding school, my mother trying to get the family to come sit at the dining table. I refused to budge, because Rahul...
1 CommentsThe series against Pakistan starting in Dubai on Tuesday is England's first since they became the No. 1 Test team in the World, grabbing the title emphatically from India at home last year. It is an unfamiliar feeling for the...
0 CommentsIt amuses me that despite being the most successful allrounder in Test history, Jacques Kallis isn't considered a 'great' player. Almost every time I raise his name in a cricket conversation about all-time greats, Kallis' name draws chuckles and raised...
3 CommentsThis series is being billed in some quarters as India's big batsmen against Australia's new crop of fast bowlers, but the contest I am eagerly awaiting is between a gawky, wheel-barrowing offspinner and an ageing legend fighting to keep his...
0 CommentsAnother captivating Test match, another nail-biting result. After Bulawayo, Johannesburg and Mumbai in November, Hobart has thrown up a fourth example of how enduring and endearing Test cricket can be. Twenty20 and 50-overs cricket cannot match finishes like the one...
0 CommentsOK, pop-quiz time: which Indian batsman played the most ODIs before their first Test match? For those of you who answered Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh without reading this sentence, a round of applause. Raina appeared in a record 98...
1 CommentsThat the Wankhede Test did not peter out into a dull draw can, from an Indian perspective, be chalked down to clutch day-five performances from two Test greenhorns in R Ashwin and Virat Kohli, and a bowler out to cement...
1 CommentsOne of the more pleasurable aspects of watching a Ranji Trophy match live is the opportunity to watch cricket closely and personally and, if you're not the only one present, see a different kind of fan. This past Sunday, I...
0 CommentsA friend pinged me on a chat window a couple days ago, with a list of the highest run-scorers in the fourth innings of Test matches. His interest was directed to the gentleman who sat at 12th place on that...
0 Comments"What I learned playing Ranji Trophy cricket cannot be matched by any experience," KP Bhaskar, one of Indian domestic cricket's batting behemoths, once told me. "This is where you grow as a cricketer, where you pay your dues, and where...
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