Indian Cricket – A Game For Some And A Religion For Most

Indian cricket has come along way since the first match recorded match in 1721 that was played among some sailors in Western India. The first test match was played by the Indian national team much later in 1932 at Lord’s and it has been a long and fulfilling journey till date. Indian cricket has evolved into a much bigger proportion than simply a ‘gentleman’s game’. In India it is more of a religion where the players are the gods. The passionate fans of Indian cricket are spread across the globe and they indulge in idol worship when the players win a match against the rival team. The same fans can however demolish their gods when the performance has been poor and a match has been lost, especially against equally popular rivals like Pakistan, Sri Lanka or even Australia. (more…)

Indian Cricket Goes Through Constant Ups And Down

Indian cricket is very popular in sub continent. There are few countries in sub continent that are involved in cricket. Indian team is considered a balanced and powerful one to compete with any strong team of the world. People are crazy and very passionate about cricket in India. Indian cricket team has always been very strong. It got its name registered in cricket history by giving innumerable records. Indian cricket team has given many world-class batsmen, bowlers who created history. In India, if it to be said that people talk cricket, read cricket, sleep cricket and walk cricket, it will not be wrong. (more…)

Days when emotion got the better of me

On this day 24th of April, I would like to share my moments with GOD.  People close to me know that I am a very emotional person. But, seldom do I let those emotions come out. I have never really liked public display of emotion. Moment after moment, different emotions have been accumulated and suppressed inside me. But certain circumstances and people force these emotions to come out.

It was the summer of 2008. I had gone crazy; screaming wildly and jumping frantically. I felt like laughing and crying at the same time. My friends were shocked to see my wild side. They had known me as a shy and level headed person, who does not have any emotions. Even I was surprised on the way I reacted. But it was spontaneous and out of my control. (more…)

Big Battle Tonight

Finally, we arrived to a stage where there will not be any scope for comebacks. Semifinal is clearly a knockout stage – you lose you go home. Many cricket pundits and fans predicted that two best teams of this season Bangalore and Mumbai will face each other in finals. But much to disappointment of Mumbai and Bangalore fans they are playing against each other in first semifinal of IPL-3 tonight at D.Y.Patil Navi Mumbai.

On paper both teams look strong but its team Mumbai who had played phenomenal cricket this season and have an upper hand playing in front of home crowd after semifinals were shifted to Mumbai from Bangalore. Team Mumbai has been consistent throughout the season, they have won 10 of their 14 games whereas Bangalore won 7 games and was lucky to enter into semis, thanks to better net run rate. (more…)

Indian Premium League Tamasha !!!

Apart from T20 Cricket Tournament Indian Premium League (IPL) is well known for controversies surrounding it. There were many controversies even before the start of the season, if you have missed any of those, check here. There were news or rumors as you may call it, every now and then about anything and everything related to IPL. And now as we reach the climax it is getting to the peak of “Controversy Mountain”. (more…)

Should SRK Reconsider Kolkata franchise?

No doubt ShahrukhKhan was saddened after Kolkata lost to Chennai thereby closing the chances of getting into semi-finals of IPL 2010. Like the captain of a sinking ship he took the responsibility of Kolkata’s poor performance. It seems SRK still struggles to instill winning attitude in Kolkata’s players. Take a look at Chennai, Mumbai or that matter Bangalore. Each team has the glue that makes them perform as a unit instead of individualistic approach. Kolkata lost the grounds precisely at this point. Even after having Indian captain instead of rotating captaincy, Ganguly failed to bring the same magic that he had brought to Indian team after M. Ajhahruddin (more…)