Sick of fixing. Dumb. The Indian Express on Sport page has a story: ACSU nabs board-accredited vendor, bookies in Kanpur. Jumped the news item. Drugging in every sport. Every sport run by bookies. What should me do brought up on Sports Pages of The Statesman, Calcutta, after picking up English alphabets at Aunties School on Elgin Road in the 1950s. Now cannot give up on sports, as me has not yet given up on a smoke and a drink. Crafted dreams of being a Pataudi and Chuni Goswami, playing in the Maidan. Disliked the manner Pollard tried to pickpocket a single against Kings at Wankhede on Thursday night IPL at Wankhede. Mumbai Indians have qualified, no need to trick. Bharat Sundaresan writes: Probably in his hurry to get back, Pollard just missed putting his bat behind the popping crease by a few centimeters you thought. But replays showed that Pollard had missed it by a few inches. Like he wasn't bothered about completing the single.' The umpire noted it gave one run, not two. Pollard could have been fairer. In cricket, you dont do it. In 2017, perhaps, nothing is unfair. One commentator commended the act. Perhaps, the next best thing is to read old cricket pieces in The Observer on Cricket: An Anthology of the Best Cricket Writing, edited and compiled by Scyld Berry. There is a Profile on Lord's Cricket Ground; the last time me saw it (on TV) was when Ajinkya Rahane scored a century and Ishant Sharma took wickets, under MS Dhoni to win a Test against England. Hope none says the Test was fixed. India lost the series 2-1. A profile on Lord's cricket ground: 'The procession of cricket worshippers is on the move again. At the game's House of Commons, The Oval, there are to be centenary honours this season. ..... The union of cricket and ceremony suggests the Upper House of the fancy, the turf so aptly and so augustly known as Lord's.' English summer is on, Lord's will strum to notes of Howzzat. Shreya wants me to take her to Lord's and Wimbledon and me still has the hope we will watch an India-England Test under a spring sun. In sports, there is always hope. Scyld Berry on Sept. 9, 1980 writes Cricket on Radio: 'When Saturday's play in the Lord's Test match was washed out in 1976, the BBC hit upon an apparent paradox. They found out that the harder it rained, the more keenly did listeners cling to their programme 'Test Match Special.' Instead of being handed back to the studio that wet Saturday, listeners were regaled with a feast of Arlott, Bailey, Johnston and Trueman anecdote and memory. Rather than dampening the commentary team's enthusiasm, rain was fuel for it. They managed to assuage the disappointment felt by millions, and amongst those who professed themselves delighted was the Duke of Edinburgh.' In 2017, watch all cricket - Test, 50, 20 - on a mute TV.
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Pollard's single
Sick of fixing. Dumb. The Indian Express on Sport page has a story: ACSU nabs board-accredited vendor, bookies in Kanpur. Jumped the news item. Drugging in every sport. Every sport run by bookies. What should me do brought up on Sports Pages of The Statesman, Calcutta, after picking up English alphabets at Aunties School on Elgin Road in the 1950s. Now cannot give up on sports, as me has not yet given up on a smoke and a drink. Crafted dreams of being a Pataudi and Chuni Goswami, playing in the Maidan. Disliked the manner Pollard tried to pickpocket a single against Kings at Wankhede on Thursday night IPL at Wankhede. Mumbai Indians have qualified, no need to trick. Bharat Sundaresan writes: Probably in his hurry to get back, Pollard just missed putting his bat behind the popping crease by a few centimeters you thought. But replays showed that Pollard had missed it by a few inches. Like he wasn't bothered about completing the single.' The umpire noted it gave one run, not two. Pollard could have been fairer. In cricket, you dont do it. In 2017, perhaps, nothing is unfair. One commentator commended the act. Perhaps, the next best thing is to read old cricket pieces in The Observer on Cricket: An Anthology of the Best Cricket Writing, edited and compiled by Scyld Berry. There is a Profile on Lord's Cricket Ground; the last time me saw it (on TV) was when Ajinkya Rahane scored a century and Ishant Sharma took wickets, under MS Dhoni to win a Test against England. Hope none says the Test was fixed. India lost the series 2-1. A profile on Lord's cricket ground: 'The procession of cricket worshippers is on the move again. At the game's House of Commons, The Oval, there are to be centenary honours this season. ..... The union of cricket and ceremony suggests the Upper House of the fancy, the turf so aptly and so augustly known as Lord's.' English summer is on, Lord's will strum to notes of Howzzat. Shreya wants me to take her to Lord's and Wimbledon and me still has the hope we will watch an India-England Test under a spring sun. In sports, there is always hope. Scyld Berry on Sept. 9, 1980 writes Cricket on Radio: 'When Saturday's play in the Lord's Test match was washed out in 1976, the BBC hit upon an apparent paradox. They found out that the harder it rained, the more keenly did listeners cling to their programme 'Test Match Special.' Instead of being handed back to the studio that wet Saturday, listeners were regaled with a feast of Arlott, Bailey, Johnston and Trueman anecdote and memory. Rather than dampening the commentary team's enthusiasm, rain was fuel for it. They managed to assuage the disappointment felt by millions, and amongst those who professed themselves delighted was the Duke of Edinburgh.' In 2017, watch all cricket - Test, 50, 20 - on a mute TV.
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