Sports

IPL3: A Shameful Start

By Adwait at 31 January, 2010, 1:42 am

Who knew that in auction round of the third IPL season, the reigning world champion Pakistan, would have their players completely ignored? It was a moment of shock and disgust, when the hammer was hit after Shahid Afridi was announced, followed with a monotone, ‘Not Sold’, by the auctioneer. Surprising and equally shocking was the behaviour of the franchise owners at the third auction of the Indian Premier League.

Are all Football transfers worth it?

By Adwait at 27 December, 2009, 11:34 pm

Football is a sport loved, played and followed by millions of individuals across all the continents. There are many things which come along with being a football fan. If you play the sport, you develop a certain style by watching your favourites on television. If you’re more into the technical aspect of the game, then you monitor every move made by the coach and manager and then either agree with the decision or question it. One major chunk of a football fans’ life is the opening of the transfer window twice every season.

And Formula One just got more Interesting!

By Adwait at 25 December, 2009, 12:36 am

There are certain sports figures that you associate with various sports around the globe. To name a few examples, cricket in India is synonymous with Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar, the world of golf can be summarized with Tiger Woods (well let’s assume I wrote this a month ago).

Care for a test match ?

By Adwait at 9 December, 2009, 11:12 pm

With the coming of an even shorter version of the game, the entertaining T20 there were bets and challenges among the youth (me being one) of how long the test format of the game would stay until being completely washed out by the fast pace of the IPL and the T20 World Cup. But after watching Mr.Sehwag bat the other day, I was in doubt.

Indian Cricket’s new avatar

By abhishek at 10 April, 2009, 12:21 am

While watching a test match between India and England, as a naïve 13 year old, I remember asking my dad about why was India still batting when it had far eclipsed England’s total of 300 odd. That’s when I was introduced to the concept of test match cricket where both teams would get a shot at batting twice over a period of 5 days. As a gully cricketer in my school days, I was drawn more towards batting. I liked scoring runs. So, to watch Brian Lara “build” his innings for hours together seemed terribly boring at first, but when I heard the likes of Henry Blowfield and Richie Benaud talk about what was happening on the screen, they made test match cricket seem more like a game of chess.