Random thoughts on the IPL so far…

1. Pulse questions The IPL website guys keep coming up with some hilarious questions to ask on their website. As an example, for some reason, Robin Jackman seems to have accumulated a cult following during this year’s IPL. It might be because of his genial way of commentating. One of the questions asked during a [...]

Consistency the key for Sri Lanka at the World Cup

Before I spam you with the first post on this blog after Bradman was dismissed for a duck by Eric Hollies,  I would, firstly, like to thank Subash Jayaraman, who has been very patient with me and gone through the torture that comes with working with me i.e. constantly reminding me to send in a [...]

The vexing case of Mahela

In the past few years, Mahela has really been a very curious case to follow. He’s so prolific in Tests and always seems to get a hundred, whereas, when it comes to ODIs, there are just brief periods of excellence and plenty of times when he barely scores runs. Sri Lankan cricket fans will remember [...]

Poor Mahela

The pitch was so fuckin’ flat that Mahela thought that perhaps, his dibbly-dobblers would get Pakistan to declare. And he nearly succeeded, creating 2 chances, one each off Arafat and Akmal, only to see it being dropped by some clearly tired fielders! However, I do find it hard to understand why Vaasy wasn’t given more [...]

Thilan and Mahela….

…..do the salsa on the bowler’s graveyard situated in Karachi! My my, what a chance for Mahela to leave his imprint on the history of SL cricket! Now this is what you call ‘writing your own script’! He must’ve realised that he could cash in big in this test series because of the flat nature [...]