Underarm cricket, played with a rubber or tennis ball, was quite the rage in Bombay during my school and college days. It was the ideal format given Bombay’s small building compounds and narrow gullies, but there were regular tournaments too, played on bigger grounds. The matches were extremely competitive and high intensity 10-over games and…
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How I was Lost and Found!
It was my grandfather who gave me this OCD – Obsessive Cricket Disorder. The old man was crazy about cricket. He used to take me to see the Ranji matches at the Brabourne stadium. Those days Test matches were few and far between and Ranji matches were taken very seriously. The stadium used to be…
Real real-life heroes!
The fastest bowling I have ever faced in my life were the 3-4 balls bowled by my uncle. He was an excellent all round cricketer who should have gone on to much greater things, had it not been for ‘those days’ when cricket as a career was not encouraged. He bagged many an award during…
Unbelievable! Kapil being mean to Sachin!
What’s going on? Suddenly, everyone’s being mean to each other! What a ridiculous thing to say! It’s like saying, Kapil Dev could not convert 2-fors and 3-fors to 5-fors and could not convert the 5-fors wickets to 10 wickets! He took 9 wickets in an innings once but could not covert it into 10 wickets!…