28 years ago, I was rudely woken up by relatives screaming "We have won the World Cup". It is quite likely that Saturday’s final between India & Sri Lanka also ended around the same time as that game in 1983. I was well awake this time around!
I can’t recall exactly when I started following cricket with a lot of interest, but I definitely recall watching games from the 1985 World Cham...
The title is deliberately misleading. This was the fantasy of most Indian fans who expect India to win the World Cup in style. This stems from how some of the previous winners have done it. Sri Lanka, Australia and West Indies dominated other teams and earned legitimacy as World Cup winners. India and Pakistan, the other winners, weren’t as convincing but were fairy tale winners.Both kinds o...
Here comes India’s first competitive match of the tournament, and it’s against a team that was saying a lot of things before they got whipped by Australia. England still doesn’t know what its strongest side is, and what their order should be, and maybe that’s preventing them from being as good as they’re capable of being. The Castrol Index doesn’t rate England...
Another match; another couple of fake reports about real games, credited to fake people whose given names have no express intention on our side to indicate real peopleThis report comes from Real Sunil Gavaskar and Real Michael Atherton.Report from "Real Sunil Gavaskar"For decades now, people remember my 36* from 60 overs in the 1975 World Cup and greet me with a mixture of secret admiration (mostl...
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