Posts Tagged ‘New Zealand cricket’

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India in New Zealand 09 – Observations

March 29, 2009

Will India ever be the ruthless world champions of cricket like the West Indies were? Or like Australia was? I have my doubts. India’s team will get better, and might even be the dominant team of the world, the ‘first among equals’ if you will, but that one bane, complacency, might prevent this generation from becoming the Baggy Greens of the 2010-2020 time frame.

And do we know anybody who does not like Jesse Ryder? And Ross Taylor?

I do dislike the fact that it took his foibles to be evident to the cricketing world for me to go beyond the respect / admire and actually become a fan of Sachin.

Arun Lal! Arun Lal! I liked him when he was playing for Bengal and making a proper cricket team out of a rather tag-rag bunch.. and I like him as a commentator. Not spectacular, but solid and consistent. Just like the cricketer, the batsman he was. Will have to write a post on Arun Lal the cricketer some day.

Isn’t Iain O’Brien’s blog (click here) exactly the way you always expected a New Zealand cricketer’s blog to be like?

Can I request all Indian cricket fans to not troll the abovementioned blog?

Dhoni is really the heartbeat of the Indian cricket team.

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On the same topic…

May 17, 2008

Is Daniel Vettori the best No. 8 ever in Test Cricket?

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New Zealand’s batting line-up

May 17, 2008

New Zealand’s batting line up in the funniest in the world. Their three best batsmen come in to bat at no. 5, 7 and 8, and are respectively a wicketkeeper and two bowling all-rounders.

Brendan McCullum; Jacob Oram and Daniel Vettori.