The IPL Sunday Roast #2
By Rahul Patil The IPL trophy has the Sanskrit words “Yatra Pratibha Avsara Prapnotihi” inscribed on it. These words in English mean “Where Talent Meets Opportunity”. True to its motto[…]
Tagged: cricket
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Sporting pictures of the Week :-7 April
A snapshot for the Fox family album. We can all sympathise with the struggle of clothes not fitting properly. Feed the backs. The Masters leaves no stone unturned, no barrel[…]
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The IPL Sunday Roast 1
By Rahul Patil I am a self-diagnosed test tragic. After all the euphoria in whites during the New Zealand summer I am still coming to terms with the fact that[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :-1 April
A few months on, and the Argentine footballers still find this hilarious. Tennis player Daniil Medvedev, and what kind of trophy is that? A giant tifo of the Turkish map[…]
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Only at the Basin
There was a bit of chat earlier in the week about the wind at the Basin Reserve on what turned out to be the last day of the test match[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :-21 March
Starting with a couple of renaissance style paintings. First of all that mad scramble at Hagley Oval; there’s a lot to take in there. And six nations rugby laid bare.[…]
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Sri Lanka “PULL” themselves to defeat
By Rahul Patil New Zealand 1st innings 580/4 declared (Conway 78, Williamson 215, Nicholls 200*, Rajitha 2/126). Sri Lanka 1st innings 164 all out (Karunaratne 89, Henry 3/44, M Bracewell[…]
Enforcing a Follow on
Less than three weeks ago New Zealand became only the fourth side to win a test match after being asked to follow on. “No team will ever enforce the follow[…]
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Double Double Statchat
What a day. This was the first time two New Zealanders had scored double centuries in the same test innings, and the 18th time overall. When he reached 91 Kane[…]
Shortened notes and Statchat
A reasonably uneventful first day’s cricket at the Basin with a delayed start due to one hell of a dumping overnight and into the morning which dried up surprisingly quickly[…]
