Million Dollar Baby

So, I saw this movie last week. And only half-way through it did I realize that it was starring Clint Eastwood, and not Greg Chappell.

Cricket at the Taj

From Flickr.

Merlyn

The English team has been making extensive use of Merlyn, the bowling machine, to combat spinners of the ilk of Muralitharan.

© Getty Images

As the saying goes…

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Edward Hubbard

Quiz No. 3

Saw this great pic on Zainub’s blog.

Looks like nobody knows much about this pic, so I decided to turn this into a quiz.

When and where was this game played, and who’s the bowler?

Slips galore

Utterly, butterly delicious

For decades now, Amul has been making ads that have a humourous spin on whatever’s in the news. And, as everybody knows, cricket’s often in the news in India. Here, I post some of these topicals (as Amul likes to call them). You can browse through all of them here.

Image © Amul

This is one of the posts lost during the WordPress server crash over the last weekend.

India seals the ODI series…

…and Dravid makes a rare war face. Quite unusual, don’t you think? Perhaps he was trying to convey he’s not all soft. Or he felt truly ecstatic at his first away ODI series win as captain.

Courtesy: AP