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All-Day Games
Time was—say, fifteen or twenty years ago—that you had to wait until Summer to watch a game of cricket. Sure, you might be able to listen on the radio to a crackling broadcast of a game on the other...
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Oldtimers’ Day 2013
Heinie Manush: A real old-time OldtimerFollowing the whole media-and-financial brouhaha between Brian Cashman and Alex Rodriguez, it has taken me (Evander) a few extra days to digest all the doings of...
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Reverse: the Curse
It’s now time to talk about reverse swing. No, it’s not the latest dance craze from California. It’s a relatively new phenomenon in cricket that entails the ball doing funky things previous unknown in...
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The Cricket World Cup: A Preview, Part 2
Let’s play some ball. Hot on the heels of the The Cricket World Cup: A Preview, Part 1, here comes the second installment, featuring the four other top teams. South Africa It’s fair to say the biggest...
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A Great Supporting Player: Misbah-ul-haq
Misbah -ul-Haq Sport, unlike anything else we know, provides us with so many heroes and antiheroes. But there are also character actors—actors that never become the A-list, yet have served their roles...
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The Cricket World Cup: Day 2
Martin here: We’ve now had four games in the World Cup 2015 and the shape of the tournament is already pretty clear (at least in my judgment). Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and India are,...
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The Spectacle of an India v. Pakistan World Cup Game
It was projected that over 1.1 billion people would watch the World Cup game between India and Pakistan, which took place on February 15th. (By contrast, the most recent Super Bowl was watched by...
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Game Changer
As our colleague Parth Taneja notes in this blog, the rivalry between India and Pakistan—fraught with religious, regional, historical, and political overtones—is one of the most passionate and...
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Pakistan Accomplish the Impossible
Misbah ul-Haq: Sometimes it’s better not to look You’d have to have the hardest of hearts not to feel for this Pakistan cricket team. Not only did they make the worst start to an inning in World Cup...
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Crickball
The Babe, The Don: Let The Games Begin! The Don. The Babe. South Korea. What do all these have in common? According to the Guardian last year, plenty. Martin and I touch on the two 1930s...
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Baby, You’re a Rich Man…and I Guess a Free One Now
The posthumous sequel by Bernard Malamud?Bulletin: The Department of Justice will not appeal a court ruling that clears Barry Bonds of obstruction of justice in a probe over steroids. Such ends...
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The Inside Scoop
Shahid Afridi: Surgical strike Now that I (Martin) have turned fifty, my doctor has advised me to get a colonoscopy, and dutifully I have scheduled one for later in August. At a pre-operation,...
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A Singed Phoenix
The Coveted Urn To England fans of many years (such as Martin), the team’s 3–2 victory over the Australians in the 2015 Ashes bears all the hallmarks of a very English success story—partial,...
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Cricket Comes to Citi Field Revisited
Not exactly….The crepuscule of early November settles in Citi Field. The World Series is over, tho there are still faded signs stenciled outside the first- and third-base lines proclaiming it. The...
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