The war of the day (in the box) It was a mind-blowing, pulse-racing and an awe-inducing first session of the third day’s play. And one isn’t even alluding to the battle between the bat and the ball. The third commentary stint that had Ravi Shastri and Nasser Hussain almost saw Harsha Bhogale being caught in [...]
Ian Bell survived a run-out chance after he was run out off the last ball before the tea break but was called back by the Indian captain MS Dhoni. Bell’s run-out at Trent Bridge was much talked about on the day and threatened to overtake the actual cricket that was being played on the ground. [...]
It all evens out in the end beginning: If the English were left rueing about the absence of DRS, the early part of the first day would have seen India do the same. Alastair Cook looked out to the naked eye and the DRS confirmed it as well, but the umpire disagreed. But as they [...]
Expectedly, the din from the English section of the commentary box is deafening. England is one to nothing up against a number one side whose rein at the top has seemed as stable as a bucket on a drunk hip-hop dancer’s head. And three of India’s best may not turn up for the second Test [...]
The Match: This is the second Test match of the series between India and England and will be played at the Trent Bridge in Nottingham. The game will begin from July 29 at the same venue where the Indians had won a Test match on their last English tour. Only this time, they will need [...]
Remembering Cape Town and Lord Harris: Five years ago, India had their best chance of winning a Test series in South Africa, something that they have never been able to achieve. In fact, it was in that series in 2006 that India had managed to win their first ever Test match on South African soil; [...]
The Hard Man! It is fascinating to hear Sourav Ganguly from the commentator’s box. Not one to hold back on the field of play, he has proved to be no different in the box either. With India opening with Rahul Dravid in place of Gautam Gambhir, Ganguly expressed his shock over Gautam Gambhir’s absence from [...]
The Hit-Wicket Candidate For a batsman playing in his first Test match ever in England and coming from conditions in Chepauk, which are as different to Lord’s as Ganguly as opposing captain was from Ganguly in the commentator box, Mukund’s knock was praiseworthy. Sourav Ganguly was spot-on when he noted that there was a touch [...]
Mirror Image dismissal Symmetry is good to watch. And it was on display on the second day of the India-England Test at Lord’s. On the first day, Zaheer Khan, a left-arm bowler bowling from over the wicket had trapped left-handed Alastair Cook out lbw off an in-swinger. Now put whole segment, side-on in front of [...]
July 21 Test at best with tinge of whinge It was a tough, grinding first day of cricket at Lord’s, a throwback to the pre-T20 times, reminding the onlookers of the T20 age only on those few occasions when the MRF ‘blimp’ made its fleeting presence felt. For the rest of the day, the full [...]
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