Global Cricket

17/11/2022

https://www.cricfeats.com/2022/11/t20-wc-2022-australia-and-their-title.html

had a great chance to replicate their golden performance in the but they went downhill at a rapid pace.. Let's scan Their journey...

HomeAaron Finch T20 WC 2022: Australia and their title defense stage to downhill conclusion at a rapid pace bySaptarshi Das -November 10, 2022 0  Till date, no team has successfully defended their title in the ICC Men’s T2O World Cup but Australia had a great chance of breaking this jinx amidst a...

05/03/2022

https://www.cricfeats.com/with-no-shane-wizard-warne-the-wrist-of-cricket-is-broken-now/

A little Tribute to the wizard of Leg spin.. In the Life of Shane Warne, there was no dull moment.. it's for him to fox the heaven Gatekeeper..!! 👆👇

It's so sad that Shane Warne, aged 52, is no more with us but more than a cricketer, he was a superstar who inspired the whole new generation.

28/02/2022

https://www.cricfeats.com/recommencement-of-ranji-trophy-season-2022-after-record-706-days/

The Ranji Trophy is the spine of Indian Cricket.. it's the bread and butter for not only some players but those who are connected with it..

Let's take a look at how the wait of 706days has come to an end.. also figure out top 3 batting and bowling stats in two weeks of the Tournament..👆👇

✍🏻- Avipsha catalyses.

Ranji Cricket is back thanks to BCCI. after 706-days since the last final between Saurashtra and Bengal since the 2019-2020 season.

21/02/2022

https://www.cricfeats.com/the-curious-case-of-pujara-and-rahane/

Since January 24-28, 2012, India have never played without both Pujara and Rahane in a Test match... 4th March 2022, will be the next date..

Let's take a look at the curious case of their fall: Have they got enough in the tank to return? 👇👆

The regular problems have seen Cheteshwar Pujara-Ajinkya Rahane being dropped from the Test side; now the question is, has their time ended?.

15/02/2022

https://www.cricfeats.com/ipl-2022-an-overview-on-the-squads-of-the-csk-rcb-srh-gt-and-dc-after-the-mega-auction/

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An overview on how the squads of the CSK, DC, RCB, SRH and GT have shaped up after the IPL 2022 Mega Auction before its beginning.

03/02/2022

https://www.cricfeats.com/1993-first-final-of-world-series-when-a-wristband-between-dean-jones-curtly-ambrose/

World series First Final: When a Wristband wreck havoc between Curtly Ambrose and Dean Jones.. ✍🏻👇👆

A story of making a sleeping Lion Angry 😐😐

When Dean Jones made a mistake by waking the sleeping Giant Curtly Ambrose during the 1993 World Series and in its first final at the SCG.

30/01/2022

“Water is for fish, Man.!!!”- A quiet heavy voice whispers the waiter of the restaurant. Well, now, his words are as sweet and soft as dangerous his bowling used to be.

Introducing to You, Michael Anthony Holding; the Jamaican. I still wonder how would he react to see a batsman moved to the sixth stump and guides a 140-kph ball in the third man region; For him though T-20 Cricket is nothing but cartoon.

Tell you what; he wasn’t every much happy getting the news of being selected in the West Indies team for the Australia tour. The fact he was upset not because he was representing the West Indies, but because he would miss Christmas away from his family; the festival in Jamaica is nothing but a Durga Puja to Bengalis.

“Whispering Death”, they used to call him and even though being so fast, what made him so special was the fact that every time he bowled, one could sense that if he had tried, he could push for a bit faster. The grovel incident was something almost the whole world know.

But few knows that in the documentary called “Fire in Babylon” where they had tried to showcase Mickey Holing against Brain Close bowling those sort balls and showing the spots on his back isn’t true. The big man has said that they might had used some kind of license in changing the photo.

He loves bowling in Australia and that 1984-85 in Perth where he took 5-wickets in the blink of an eye. The hosts folded for a modest total.

Well, it’s not about good things but bad things too.

West Indies had just won their maiden Test series in Australia and off they went New Zealand in 1980 and they were so close of winning the series but things were not going in their way or rather they were complaining the umpiring. Holding bowled a beautiful ball and Parker had gloved it and the umpire refused it.

Well, the spectators saw Holding’s right leg going out of the control as he ran on the batting end and kicked the stumps with real frustration. Thankfully, that was the only rough incident in his cricketing life.

Even as a commentator, leaving the 30-year-old job, he had given 10000000-advices of how to keep the pacers fresh and encourage them to bowl fast and fast. That book “WHY WE KNEEL< HOW WE RISE” is nothing but gold as was his 3-min video about the lesson of racism in Sky Sports. You got to watch it.

I am leaving you with a Holding surprise:
“In 1983, if you are outside of Mumbai (Bombay then) and want to call in Caribbean, you took out the phone of your hotel room, you spoke to the hotel operator, the hotel operator called the Bombay operator, The Bombay operator called the London operator and the London operator called the operator of your Island and that Island operator would call your home...so any of these links dropped, the call was dead; you had to start over again.”✍🏻

29/01/2022

https://www.cricfeats.com/2021-the-year-indian-cricket-directed-the-magnum-opus-in-test-cricket/

An overview at year 2021 and how Indian team had performed in the longer format; lost the WTC and performed poorly again in T-20 World Cup.

29/01/2022

Patrick Patterson; Not many of the people have heard about him. There was a game in Australia in 1986 and a radio broadcaster was to say that Patrick Patterson was bowling as fast as any Human being could bowl to.

I still can’t believe how could he bowl showing his studs of shoes to a batsman.!!

In those past days, there had been so many West Indian great pacers everyone would have heard about; whether it’s Malcolm Marshall, Joel Garner, whispering death Michael Holing or his friend Andy Roberts; but hardly can remind of Patrick Patterson?

But Who is this guy or where is he now? There had been some words that spelled out different opinions. Some say, that he has moved to USA for his new base camp, some figures that he has been addicted to drugs whereas some recognize that Patterson had been admitted to a mental asylum. Well, nothing is correct.

Bharat Sudarshan, the Indian journalist living in Australia, had found him near a port with a bottle of beer in a chilly morning, might be preparing for his fishing and it took him so long to remind his international career. And he so humbly spectacled how those international cricket moments had been erased from his mind.

Finish it off with a little story Ian Bishop once talked about:

It was Bishop’s second first class game and he was sitting in the dressing room. Well, a gentle breeze was blowing and Patrick Patterson was in the middle. Let me tell you, the 22-yard in Sabina Park, in Kingston, Jamaica, is little higher than the whole ground. The pitch is so solid that one can hear the sounds nailing his fingers on it. Also, the clay is of red soil, mind you.

Now, Patrick used to wear those shoes with metal strips, perhaps of “ADIDAS”. Every time, he was in his run-up, the metal strips were hitting the red clay and literally a SPARK used to light up on his right boot. That used to be coming up of the spikes of his shoes.
Just imagine, Ian Bishop watching it as a 20-year-old kid from the hut in just his 2nd First Class Game.

That’s Fearsome, scary, frightening, hair-rising, spine-chilling, petrifying, terrifying and all the synonyms of Fear.
THAT’S PATRICK PATTERSON FOR YOU; A FEAR WHO SHADOWED 25-YEARS AGO.

29/01/2022

Ian Raphael Bishop- "Remember The Name"

It was a long time ago when a 6ft tall from Trinidad used to scare the batsman with his fearful action that started almost from the edge of the boundary... Well, the time has gone and The same person has kicked all his natures out to become one of soft voices in the Com which doesn't require any introduction..

As far as I am concerned, There are two present commentators who have been attached with the game so emotionally leaving out the fear of speaking against their own board.. Nasser Hussain and Ian Bishop.. let's talk about the later today..

"Remember The Name" was quite the outburst of his emotional side.. West Indies hadn't come to the 2016 WC with a lot of trust thanks to their common dispute between boards and players.. and Bishop felt that they weren't getting the type of respect they deserve... and then progressing to the finals night, coming to the last over, watching 19 off 6, he thought they could fall short.. but when Carlos hit those four sixes and the memory of telling the businesses man of keeping an eye on Carlos brought all his exuberance out..

Good things happen with Good people..On Sachin's farewell walk, Bishop made sure that the world would have Harsha Bhogle's voice in their ears and 3-years later, David Lyolld (Bumble) threw him the the centre stage.. And he won it..

If you travel around the circle of commentary, everyone will tell you that Bish is the nicest guy; he will go through all the stats and history of a new player playing..

Not only emotions and love, Bishop is about having the best and different analysis on the corners of the game.. When Ravindra Jadeja took that catch of Iyer in the IPL final, all the human beings in the box were speaking about how speedy Jadeja ran to have the catch..But Ian Bishop, grabbed my ears, with a different analysis saying Jadeja has the hardest fingers around the world which helps him to grab those catches, otherwise the ball would have burst out his fingers to the ground.. simply outstanding..

In the same tournament, there was a Unacademy fan question whether a bowler could be given the permission of bowling with both hands.. All the heads in the Com box were wondering how could it be possible and is their any example in the present era?? And suddenly Ian Bishop mentioned Kamindu Mendis and the fact that he can bowl with both of his hands.. The present Sri-Lankan Coach, Mickey Arthur, might have his television volume up and he didn't take a second to applaud Bishop in Twitter..

Another fact that made me a great fan of Bishop is his wish of observing high standard women's cricket.. The whole world seem to have a face cover of saying that.. during the last Women's T20 World Cup, he was supposed to take a break before a big series but he denied it and flew to Australia to have his voice on the competition..

One of the voices in the current universe, which can be so pleasant no matter what the format is running or what Gender is playing..

It's 24th October, 2021।। Happy 54th Birthday Ian Bishop, The nicest Guy.. Have a Fruitful future in the Box.. hopefully atleast for once, I can have a click with you in a cricket field.. 🏆✍🏻

Pic courtesy- Twitter..

29/01/2022

“Playing with Fire” Perhaps the best name he could put to his autobiography. As Sir Ian Botham had mentioned in the cover page; Hussain had changed England Cricket; he had put the fire back in their game.

It's a life, as I call it, from Chennai to Chelmsford, a little kid who used to stand with his sister besides the bar and observed his father being so upset on watching his son’s leg spin getting destroyed. Since then, coming to England, scoring runs for fun in Essex, getting the English cap and becoming the leader; it's always an untouchable feeling when the Barmy Army will sing “Hussain’s Songs” & the man from the tunnel will call it “Nasser Hussain's Team”.

Ending his career with a farewell hundred at Lord's against New Zealand and tried to hit the ball where he once stood thirty years back with his friend; it's such a remarkable experience.

And one of those voices, like I had posted earlier on Ian Bishop, who always try to be unbiased; it's quite like dropping bombshells when he grabbed eyes in commentary more than his playing days; undoubtedly, being unbiased and choice of right emotions and time to speak had drawn the line in the heads of the listener, I suppose.

Honesty and being impartial with the job, he always tries to be in that room. “I am not a cheer leader for England”. And he also mentioned how he cherished a good day in the box; when you have come off the com box; the half of the world is saying, why are you so England, England; while the rest half saying why are you always criticizing England; Then you know, you are doing the right job.

It won’t be the brightest thing for me to pen down few quotes on how he sees the game; never ever I have seen him taking a wrong route and understandingly so; whether when Ganguly waved the shirt, he didn’t mind it but reportedly said of having more respect for Sourav Ganguly for doing this, in his own moment.

Staying in the hotels of Mumbai and doing a doco on Mumbai Cricket and why there have been such a huge pool of players from India; it shows his love for his birth country.

That little 3-min video from Sky where he nailed down the English players for their poor techniques and new invention of standing on the crease during the 2nd New Zealand Test in 2021; it figures out how much still he thinks of the game.

Whether being in the opposite center of the 2000 Centurion Hansie Cronje Test or being among the high administrators of the game before the 2003 World Cup in taking a decision to fly in Zimbabwe; He has always played with the Fire; always I say.

I am going to leave you with a little but heavy question on him. Hussain the Player or Nasser the Commentator? Choice is yours; but I can guarantee he will never ever shy away from opting the former option.

Pic Credit: Twitter..

22/01/2022

https://www.cricfeats.com/ricky-ponting-a-legend-a-leader-and-a-superior-guide/

It's the story of Ricky Ponting and his best Test & ODI innings; more so of how he changed the fate of Mumbai Indians and guided young Pant.