When the good Lord invented cricket, he did me no favours whatsoever by making the ball red and grass green. It’s because I’m afflicted by a debilitating cricketing disability that makes it all but impossible to pick the ball up early. I’m talking, of course, about red-green colour-blindness. Because my teammates haven’t always been convinced by the excuse “I couldn’t see the ball” after I’ve been bowled shouldering arms, I’ve always taken an interest in professional cricketers’ eyesight. Did...
Tears on their Pilau – a post mortem of India’s test defeat to England
We received this very very serious submission via email earlier in the week. It discusses India’s test humiliation at the hand’s of Alastair Cook’s Barmy Army with intelligence, eloquence (and not a trace of sarcasm). It also prevents us from having to consider England’s abject showing in the T20 yesterday … something which will come as relief to Jade Dernbach, who seemed to be impersonating a blind muppet for most of the match. Anyway, over to you Mr James Hindle...
Victory in Kolkata – the dissection
“Oi newbie. Don’t let me see you doing any proper warm ups before play” India 316 & 247. England 523 & 41-3 Geoff Boycott summed it up quite nicely. India have had conditions in their favour; they’ve won three tosses in a row; they’re fired up (or should be) after losing 0-4 to England last year. Yet England are still winning this series. India have lost two home tests in a row for the first time for twelve years. And if they don’t win the fourth test, they’ll have...
