The Wikipedia of Cricket
The original trend of playing county cricket in England was started by Nawab of Pataudi who would often go to England in his free time to play there. However, it was Farokh Engineer who showed the way forward for Indians who wanted to gain experience and work on their technique by playing rigorously in […]
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At a time when only films were able to create a normal human into a superstar, a player becoming superstar and achieving superstardom was surely not that a thing in the 70’s and 80’s. Sportmen apart from a few hardly achieved that much popularity as actors or politicians achieved during that time. However, there […]
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Some things can never be compared even though you may be lured to compare it. You can never compare a vintage Mercedes S-class with the new age Mercedes 2018. The charm, the history and the quality of the original car is priceless and incomparable. It was also the first car in India which […]
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Seems like SA were on the backfoot way before the series started, SA Skipper FAF Du Plessis entered the series with some dizziness after a surprising defeat in the 3rd Test. Faf told to the media before the 1st ODI began- ‘India may improve their ODI record this time in SA” Such words that too […]
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A cricket history of India spanning over 90 years, over 500 tests so far, over 290 players who have represented India out of lakhs of aspiring cricketers waiting in que. But there are handful of very discerning few in this last 10decades spanning over 500 tests that any batsman has stood out on foreign […]
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‘We are going there as the world’s no.1 side, we don’t need to fear”- Kohli ‘We are quite prepared to face the South African Bowlers” – Rohit Sharma ‘Looking at our current form where we are winning consistently, there are few chances we may underperform’ – Coach Ravi Shastri If we just look at […]
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A boy born in a humble middle class muslim family, an exemplary team man, a batsman with the best cover drive and leg flicks which looks like a master coaching the bowlers. A calm demeanour, a humble background, a 6ft tall humble giant with a cricketing brain & a batting technique which can last […]
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Facing a school level bowling attack on flat tracks where 70% of the matches are played in our homeground itself in India, the likes of Kohli, Sharma, Dhawan have thrived and notched up amazing statistics. Even the recently held Sri-Lankan series in India had a team full of school level players. Hence, players […]
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Rohit is one cricketer on whom you can definitely make a biopic or write an autobiography. When he was 16 and struggling to even have proper cricketing kit and fees to train in the academies, it was his SVIS school principal Yogesh Patel who placed a bet on his future and sponsored his entire […]
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We all know how consistent Mr.Kohli has been over the last 3 to 4 years. In the last 110 ODI’s he has played since March 2012, he has scored 21hundreds at an average of 65.79 in ODI’s. This stats are simply mind boggling and not a single player from the current crop can match […]
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