Just Cricket

There was this thought that came to my mind while watching the first T20 International between India and England last week. The face of the English T20 squad had changed completely, whereas India were still fielding a fair amount of players who had played in the Tests. Some numbers would give one a fair idea of how the Indian and English squads compared. The Englishmen had retained just the one player, Tim Bresnan to play in the first T20 whereas India had retained six, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin and Piyush Chawla. This brings us to the point that has been made a million times by thousands of cricket experts all over the world since the advent of T20 cricket and the IPL thereafter. The point being there has been too much cricket and players run out of steam at one point. The length of the IPL and the ICC's Future Tours Program have been questioned in this regard which is fair to a certain extent. But, there are teams wh...

I was really looking forward to watching a test match at the Eden Gardens. The first look at the Eden Gardens doesn’t really give you the feeling that it’s huge. It looks very new though, with it being renovated very recently. The arrangements for the match looked very much in order at the outset. Things were about to change very fast. The Cricket Association of Bengal and Kyazoonga do not have the courtesy to inform people that the tickets that they have bought are no longer available because of a mistake that they had committed. It’s just ridiculous how people get treated here in India.      The hour long queue I stood in How would anyone want to watch a match at the ground with such treatment from the management!! Clearly no one cares about it and writing more about it wouldn’t solve any problem. But, I still would just want to put my experience out there so that people know. There was just one queue to pick-up tickets booked online an...