pardon the headline… but amongst the hoohaa of spot fixing saga… soulberry has taken a less treaded path of ranji trophy and eloquently argues it to be established as THE selectorial pointer for tests…Having seen the better days of Ranji and part…

What promised to be a 90-10 chance day favoring Sri Lanka to win the 3rd Test instead turned out to be the underdog’s supporters’ delight. Jayasuriya it seems had predicted these odds and frankly one was equally pessimistic about India’s chances …

recently a side got out to 88 runs and had it not being the ineptness of the team that bowled them out… the match would have been over in 2 and a half days…yesterday another team came close to get bowled out to even less… it didn’t… yet even af…

cut above the rest…

the bating or to be precise farming of strike from vvs laxman has been very strange in this test… though he has done it earlier but this galle test takes the cake… as if he is hell bent on giving every opportunity to murali to achieve that magic fi…

i wrote this post on murali in my early days of blogging… since then nothing has changed… i admire him like i used to… and though with age the tweaker in him has slown down a bit but spirit to fight is still intact… so to salute murali… i re-…

One has just started reading ' The Picador Book of Cricket ', edited by Ramchandra Guha and more on the book later. But it recounts an extremely funny incident/ anecdote that one has no choice but to narrate it. The little Pakistani's (Hanif…(read more)