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age india s opening match was against england subroto banerjee was one of india s quick bowlers in that match aside of that i remember little of the first innings other than my father saying that india had given away a few runs too many in the final overs in the end india lost by nine runs i remember distinctly that i went downstairs to play compound cricket i e cricket played in the building s compound with my friends either as a reaction to the loss or towards the latter stages of the game when it seemed a lost cause new zealand was in many ways the dark horse of that tournament as i remember it they played all their matches at least in the league stage at home and won most of them they were stopped by pakistan and inzamam s superlative performance in the semi finals enduring images from their campaign mark greatbatch s pioneering of the role of the pinch hitter deepak patel the off spinner bowling at the start of the innings as a containing bowler and the fact that the new zealand matches would have the score on the corner of the tv screen displayed in english parlance runs wickets as opposed to the matches in australia which used aussie parlance wickets runs which still causes much confusion for me during the early stages of an innings as an aside the australian style of reading out the score was imprinted on my mind by a typical tony greig passage of commentary during the australia south africa league match which i watched partly at least at the house of my grandmother s neighbour not a good over for meyrick pringle nor for south africa fooooiiiiive for one forty one this was also a match in which i mused on the meaning of the term breakthrough that the commentators seemed to keep using i had assumed previously that this referred to the first wicket a team took in an innings here they were using it to refer to the second wicket the first had been a run out which led me to the assumption that the term referred to the first wicket taken by a bowler during the innings india s campaign during that tournament was largely unsuccessful their only victories coming against pakistan with a sterling performance by tendulkar with the bat and zimbabwe and another point from a rained off match against sri lanka nevertheless they had their bright spots one especially was the match against australia at if i remember right the gabba in brisbane india were chasing and were rather unfortunate to have a tougher target set for them after rain had eaten into their innings the rain rule though it must be remembered that these were early days for this device got to its most absurd point in the sa vs eng semi finals when after a rain delay the springboks found themselves with a target of i think 23 runs off 1 ball sanjay manjrekar played a handy knock in the middle to late overs and the match went down to the last ball with i think four required for a win srinath was on strike and clubbed the ball towards the long on boundary steve waugh those were the days when he still fielded at the boundary dropped the catch but got the ball back in time to complete a run out was it raju as the indians scrambled for a third run it was a good lesson for an indian fan in the making for such heartbreak was to become a regular feature when following the team s fortunes in the end pakistan came from behind to win the crystal globe with a match winning performance from imran khan who scored seventy odd and took the final wicket when richard illingworth skied a shot those were the days before australian supremacy and i do not think that before the tournament began there was a clear favourite none of the following world cups could afford to have the same format with the number of participating teams swelling this year there will be a super eight stage following the league matches will there be parallels with the 1992 world cup this year with the west indian pitches universally diagnosed as slow and low nowadays could this world cup be a throwback to the days before the batting fest and the mammoth total became the defining features of the one day match posted by pavilionseat filed in cricket down memory lane 5 comments vote for us february 13 2007 by amit goyal we have been nominated in the best sports indiblog category for indibloggies 2006 the entire team is thrilled and requests you to vote for us posted by pavilionseat filed in indibloggies 1 comment impossible is nothing february 13 2007 by rahul misra in feb 2005 an email with the following text landed in my inbox instructions on the back of maggi 2 minutes noodles pack step 1 boil one cup of water step 2 as soon as ganguly goes out to bat put the noodles in the boiled water and add the tastemaker step 3 stir till ganguly is on the field step 4 as soon as ganguly is back in pavilion your noodles are ready to eat what followed was a year long barrage of ganguly bashing his batting form went from bad to worse and there were people out there who made a living out of creating jokes on him bulletin boards were filled with cries of his removal from the team there were those who made bets on whether he d reach double figures i admit it i made a few bucks myself doing that stats like 48 runs in 5 matches did the rounds over and over and when we went to see the 2nd india pak test match in bangalore we were sure ganguly won t last more than 10 balls he obliged us handing the ball to first slip the end had to come and it did many didn t like the way it came many didn t like the way he was treated but through heated exchanges televised on the national channel to email which were leaked and gobbled up with glee which our sensation loving media in december 2005 sourav ganguly was shown the door out of the indian test team i sometimes wonder how he would have felt at that point the team management dead against him the public not really that supportive either and his batting form had all but left him he had been dumped in a coffin nailed all around and buried six feet under a cricinfo article talked about how he didn t go without a fight oh boy the author had no idea this was the most successful indian team captain one who had twirled his shirt around at lord s and then as fickle as public memory is he all but disappeared youth was the order of the day now and except the abuses greg chappel got when he reached west bengal there wasn t much else to remind us of him and then 6 months later he was back dressed in a formal shirt he sat on the steps of a cricket pavilion and talked to the camera in a pepsi ad he referred to the indian team as mine he talked about how he had been practising real hard the timing couldn t have been better the cricket team wasn t doing too well and the stage was set for the comeback of a lifetime sure enough as the team got thumped in south africa sourav ganguly was recalled to bolster the middle order it can be said that wouldn t have gotten a reprieve if the collective indian team form hadn t slumped but that thought is nothing more than a byline fortune has always favoured the brave he must have walked to the pitch in that 4 day match with atlas weight on his shoulders he returned with the highest individual indian score in the match not many expected it hardly anyone predicted it but there was no looking back and in the middle of the 3rd test the times of india headline read ganguly leads india s fightback a few days later he was selected for the one day squad the comeback was complete the prince of calcutta was back on the throne the indian squad for the world cup was announced this weekend i drove to my office listening to rjs discussing names like sehwag yuvraj raina karthik and kaif in absolutely no one s mind was ganguly s place in the squad in doubt he is back and all of us know it a sport is supposed to be an extension of life it throws at individuals similar challenges and gives us those sitting on the sidelines an opportunity to see how our heroes face them we in india are often accused of putting our cricketers on the high pedestal not realizing that it is after all just a game for once seeing this drama play out in front of us i m proud of our fanaticism i m proud that the youngsters in our country look up to someone who has it in him to be a real role model he didn t swing on a spider web and rescue mary jane he didn t smash up lex luger after being pounded with kryptonite and he didn t vow to smoke out the taliban sourav ganguly did a lot more he took all the hits didn t buckle believed in himself found strength deep within and came back the way not many can he showed us that perseverance counts that it s not what others think or say that matters and that with self belief it is always possible to bounce back a true champion has the ability to get up when others would stay down he has that seemingly impossible iota of strength still left when all hope seems lost by digging in that reserve ganguly showed us that he deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest the adidas executives should kick themselves in the backside for more than any other brand ambassador they ve got on this country it is sourav ganguly who has earned his stripes in the world cup squad and truly personifies the slogan impossible is nothing posted by pavilionseat filed in controversy cricket 13 comments match or scoreboard january 28 2007 by aparajith ramnath i have written here on the joys of watching cricket at the stadium the point of comparison there was television coverage no doubt things were different in the pre tv days with people huddled around radios hanging on to the commentator s every word and trying to cobble those words together to form a picture of the action it just occurred to me recently that we have in a way our own equivalent of the radio days although the radio itself is still going strong following a match by tracking the score online how many of us deprived of television coverage of cricket matches by location the constant bickering of tv companies over telecast rights or simply the lack of a tv are now dependent on websites where you can get the latest score sitting in front of the computer screen numbly waiting for the score to tick over looking at the bottom of the page to see if fresh data is being sent we stare at the names and numbers so long that all sorts of statistical operations begin to be performed in the mind we notice for instance that it is barely half way through the odi innings and around twenty extras have been given away ah the bowlers have been spraying it all over the place perhaps the wicketkeeper has not been at his most solid best we make arcane calculations ah the other batsman is on strike now but the first one has not added to his score a leg bye perhaps sometimes we download a desktop scoreboard to save ourselves the trouble of using our browsers and wondering whether or not it is showing us the latest score invariably this program is dominated by advertising and before one knows what s happening announces something in the nature of a javascript or unable to find page error prompting one to go back to the website itself this is the sort of stuff that can paralyse colonise the mind to use high falutin language not allow one to think of any other task in peace unless one is clicking away every few minutes yet much of this can be said of tv coverage and for those who don t have the latter there are times when scoreboard tracking can be a godsend if a nerve wracking one posted by pavilionseat filed in cricket opinion leave a comment follow no november 25 2006 by aparajith ramnath well what did you expect began ted corbett s report in the hindu of the first day of the much hyped ashes series at the gabba in brisbane ricky ponting had just notched up century number 32 in a relentless march towards tendulkar s current total of 35 justin langer had scored 82 runs and mike hussey was keeping his captain company at stumps with a fifty to his credit 346 runs in the day for the loss of just three wickets corbett s opening line captured acutely the utter dominance of the aussies now the same line could probably be used to talk about the home team s decision not to ask the englishmen to follow on after having clinched a mammoth lead of 445 runs they seem to have made this a part of their style just consider at the end of day 3 of the test they are at 181 for one in their second innings so that they now lead by 626 runs with two days to go conventional wisdom has always been to go for victory by the shortest possible route so if the opponents are 445 runs behind and have only managed around a third of that total in their first innings asking them to follow on would be the shortest route the aussies have over the last few years given a number of reasons why they do not prefer this including their bowlers being tired and not wanting to bat last on a wearing pitch staunch indian supporters will no doubt hypothesise that the experience of losing to an indian team that was following on at eden gardens in the now famous test match of laxman s 281 has led to a distrust of the follow on method none of those reasons though seem to apply here for the aussies had to bowl all of 61 1 overs in the first innings and batting again for any length of time was hardly a very likely scenario for the aussies why then the decision to bat on the pragmatists would advance the theory that this is part of an overall strategy to demoralise the opposition for the rest of the series for the aussies to stamp their authority on the series early on somehow one is not convinced about the need for this yes sport must be competitive but it is not politics is so much long term planning necessary in this context see my post titled the cricket world cup is still a year away posted by pavilionseat filed in cricket opinion leave a comment older entries search for pages about us welcome to pavilion seat blog stats 14 589 visits to these pages categories agassi 1 chess 1 controversy 2 cricket 11 cricket 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