Yes, this post is a couple of days late, but after all the World Cup posts I have written so far I thought it was only right to end it with this. Playing in our second final in 5 years I, like most, looked for ‘plans’ on how to spend my Saturday afternoon. Being the… [Read more…]
April 1, 2011
India. Sri Lanka. World Cup. Final. I will admit, I didn’t see this coming. Sure, I knew Sri Lanka (we herewith) had a good chance of getting here and that India had a good enough team to make the look like a Men Vs Boys competition. But the way the group stage ended, you’d think a Pakistan-… [Read more…]
March 30, 2011
I’ve been at it again; trying to be a sport-journalist. This is a news item that appeared on the Daily Mirror of March 20th titled ‘Lorgat reiterates 50 over future’. It was quite an interesting assignment with the notorious Haroon Lorgat , when he recently spoke at the Sri Lanka Press Institute Press Club meeting on the future of 50 over… [Read more…]
March 24, 2011
So I was excited by the prospect of the quarter-finals, seeing how the consensus is that the ‘World cup starts in the second round’ but after that Pakistunning of the West Indies, I have a bad feeling that this one is not going to end well and it’s going to be another four years wait for the… [Read more…]
March 17, 2011
For someone who claims not to be the biggest cricket fan, I certainly have blogged a lot about it haven’t I? What can I say? Just so many thoughts going through my head about the World Cup. Also, turns out cricket is part of the ropes you have to learn, if you want to be… [Read more…]
March 10, 2011
So the World Cup is going by way faster than I have time to blog everything I find blogging-worthy about it. This is saying more about how much time I have to blog rather than the World Cup itself, seeing how I can fly to the moon and back in the time that it would take… [Read more…]
February 24, 2011
…. I love it. Okay, not really. I just like that song. It’s that time, once in four years, when everyone becomes a cricket fan, even those who don’t know how the thing’s played. And it’s not exactly shocking that unless you were to lock yourself in a room and live in isolation, you probably wouldn’t be able to get… [Read more…]
February 19, 2011
With the World Cup starting and all, I was fortunate enough to be given a chance to stretch my ‘wannabe-journalist’ skills and write a preview for the World Cup. It ran in the Daily Mirror World Cup supplement on Friday the 18th February, this being an unedited version. A bit on the long side, but could have been longer had I tried… [Read more…]
February 18, 2011
Such a shame. I’ve been working on quite a few world cup related articles and blog posts recently, and just when I was about to finish one, I see this.
February 11, 2011
…again. And yes, I have a new blog. Its weird what you learn in the course of life. Like how much you actually like something that you were always to freaked out to try, like bungee jumping or getting in a pool, or how much you hate the taste of beer, till the next time… [Read more…]
April 5, 2011
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