Samir Chopra

India's Great Misses, Part Three

The first two misses in this series of great misses - India's failure to pull off a run-chase at the Oval in 1979, and to bowl out the Aussie tail and then mount a small fourth-innings chase at the MCG in 1985 - were falls at the last hurdle

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

India's Great Misses: Exhibit Two - The 1985 Boxing Day Test

India have never beaten Australia in Australia

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

India's Great Misses: Exhibit One - the 1979 Oval Test

Of all the Test matches that India has let slip from its grasp in its cricketing history, three rankle me in particular

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Packaging sledging as entertainment

A few weeks ago, I read a little story by Eknath Solkar about the time he made Geoff Boycott his bunny on the 1971 tour

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The Night of the Living Refund-Seekers

As I staggered home, on a commuter train that Sunday night, I resembled most of all, those zombie-like creatures that had lined up just a few days previously, demanding their precious US $10, denied, cruelly, what would have been for them, the most

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Cricket and the Goldilocks Principle: The Question of Governance

I finished reading two excellent books over the weekend: Gideon Haigh's latest, Sphere of Influence , and David Post's Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the States of Cyberspace

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Coming of Age as a Fan

I don't think I can point to another series after the 1976-77 one and declaim, "And by that time, my development as a fan was complete." Because while it is easy to point to the beginnings of one's education, it is unwise to mark the end

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

India and Australia: Another delectable duet

A couple of posts ago , I wrote of my anguish at having missed out on a type of Test finish I'd always wanted to see

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Commentary on Internet Relay Chat

Okay, time for a little honesty: how many of you have talked in glowing terms about an innings that you haven't seen a ball of

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Mixed feelings: A fan's lament

So near and yet so far

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The summer that went bad

The tour began as a showcase of England's hospitality and Pakistan's desperately-in-need-of-a-showcase cricket

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Play to watch: The player as an informed spectator

The recently concluded US Open confirmed for me what I'd been suspecting for a few weeks leading into it: I'd really started to like watching tennis

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The insidious allure of spot-fixing

Another cricketing scandal is upon us.Well, the incorrigibility of Pakistan cricket is not new, so let us stop flogging that particular dead horse (after all, we know the usual round of bans, cover-ups, appeals, and reinstatements awaits us down

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Aggression and the loss of focus

I'm writing a follow-up to my article on Stuart Broad to respond to a contrary note struck by a few readers in the comments section

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

In appreciation of Mohammad Amir

In February 1999, as the Asian Test Championship got underway, India took on Pakistan in Calcutta (now Kolkata)

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

When the going is easy, the tough get going

Some time ago, on this blog , I'd written that one of the aims in my posts was to pay tributes to (what seemed to me) unheralded cricketing achievements

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Aggression or just plain petulance?

I'm not huge fan of coaches, and I have said so on this blog

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The UDRS and Test cricket

Recently the just-retired Rudi Koertzen opined that the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) should be implemented world-wide in all Test cricket

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Begging for mercy

Sometimes, even the cricket-fan-in-exile can be spoiled for choice when it comes to live cricket

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Viru the Incorrigible

Perhaps he will set himself some new target

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

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