Chinmoy Roy looks ahead to The Ashes 3rd Test & South Africa v India
Chinmoy Roy joins us ahead of the next Ashes Test and Test Series between South Africa v India.
Chinmoy Roy joins us ahead of the next Ashes Test and Test Series between South Africa v India.
Chinmoy Roy joins us to pit Cricket vs Football and compare fitness drills ahead of the UEFA Euro 2020 Final between England v Italy.
Before any international, domestic or even a club match every team goes through a ritual. Yes, I am talking about the warm up.
I wonder how the so called cricket scientist, late Bob Woolmer would have strategized on dealing with isolation and bio bubble.
Ian Botham, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan and Richard Hadlee – all contemporaries, all legendary allrounders of the same era back in 80’s.
The legendary pole vaulter Sergei Bubka of Ukraine (now Lithuania) broke the world record 35 times. On each occasion between 1980’s and 90’s he broke his own record.
In this IPL, in keeping with the trademark T-20 style, batsmen are tonking the ball with great freedom. Sanju Samson, AB Devilliers, KL Rahul and Prithvi Shaw have already set the empty stands ablaze with some sensational power hitting.
T-20 they say is a game for exuberant multi-tasking youngsters. In this super fast racing track of twenty two yards the old engines are outdated. That's the common refrain.
The mid-summer bash of the mega hit cricket league of the world is awaiting its bugle to blare. Yes, it’s the cash reach Indian Premier League I am talking about.
Dicky Bird, the legendary umpire used to call Michael Holding a Rolls Royce. Do you know why?
The ongoing India versus England T-20 series is an eye opener to a now firmly established fact that this format thrives on power. Just have look at the way a Josh Butler and Virat Kohli tonk the ball to make it soaring into the stands.
Some of the great names in the history of sport either failed as a coach or never came into coaching. On the other side of the coin are some world class coaches who were obscure as a player but revered for their coaching prowess.
Till 1990’s batsmen in the longer version of the game were judged by their durability, the length of the time they spent in the crease. Hanif Mohammad, Ken Barrington, Geoffrey Boycott and Sunil Gavaskar used to play marathon innings and would wear the bowlers down by stonewalling.
It is flash back 1974. As the tall Tony Greig, of England started his run up in a test match in Eden Gardens, the commentator said, ”Here comes tony Greig from the Maidan end.” Like the Nursery end of Lord’s or Paddington end of the Sydney cricket ground, the ‘Maidan’ end of Eden Gardens has a special place in the history of cricket.
England and India will be sparring with each other for the berth in the final of the test WCC in Lords.
Some cricketers, besides playing the sport, were proficient in other walks of life. England’s W.G. Grace, the quintessential father of cricket was a regular medical practitioner.
There was an all pervading mood of despair. A pall of gloom enveloped the entire sporting fraternity across the universe. The virus had a strangle hold on life for a long time before the unflinching human race broke loose.
For any sports there has to be a history. There is a consensus of expert opinion that cricket may have been invented during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England.
Tennis legend Roger Federer was seen in same frame with Sachin Tendulakar, whom he admired as a sportsperson.
If Belinda Clark of Australia or Anjum Chopra of India hit a six in the 1990’s it used to become news. My gosh! a woman has hit a six.
Catastrophe – must be the apt word to relate to the destiny of Winston Davis, the former Caribbean fast bowler who could break into the formidable West Indies team of 80s, playing alongside Malcom Mrashal, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding and Joel Garner.
He stroked a scintillating first class hundred at 16, while becoming the youngest, he dethroned the legendary Graeme Pollock.
Oh my gosh! – is it a cricket shot or a hockey scoop? Sir Donald Bradman must be twisting and turning in the grave seeing A B De Villiers rolling over the ground playing a reverse scoop.
Javed Miandad, Dennis Lillee, Sourav Ganguly and Steve Waugh. What’s common among these names? All three are - belligerent, resilient and relentless.
There’s a saying – life gives with one hand and takes with another. Whether you retrospect or introspect nothing can be more harsh a reality than the saying.