Samir Chopra

Cricket and the World Cup

The sights and sounds of a World Cup football game are among the most enthralling in sport

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Cricket in gator country

The significance of the Sri Lanka versus New Zealand bilateral T20 series, which is due to kick off on May 22nd, is considerably enhanced by a quick look at the location of their clash: Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill, Florida; a classic

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Brawlgate and the need for moderation

What is consistent about Indian teams is that they are not very consistent

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The true cricketing wealth of a nation

After three years of the IPL, and several more years of the financial domination of the BCCI, how much richer in cricketing terms is India?

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Big hitting in context

Now that the IPL is on (and on and on) there is, as might be expected, plenty of talk about big-hitting, and especially talk of the biggest hits and hitters

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Cricket, up close and personal

A couple of years ago, after I read Sambit Bal's wonderful piece on his cricket-watching experiences at Galle , I got to thinking about which cricket ground had provided the best cricket-watching experience for me

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

On top of his game

Here is a little bet I set myself: I could open Ray Robinson's On Top Down Under (a collection of biographical essays on Australian Test captains) to any page at random, and find a memorable turn of phrase

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Cricket and becoming American

When I stepped out into the windswept, icy canyons of Manhattan later that afternoon, my naturalization papers in my backpack, I had to restrain a giggle or two

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The IPL and fan loyalty

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Cricket books and masters of the game

In buying and reading these books, I rediscovered several pleasures which had started to become distant memories: the idle browse through several decades of cricket history, the serendipitous discovery of a classic, and most importantly, when reading

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Should any 'family' be this tolerant?

There is a way of describing Pakistani cricket, which used to be tiresome but which has now started to strike me as patently offensive

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

A rare cliché that has remained fresh

That sports-writing is full of clichés is, well, a cliché

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Walking in an umpire's shoes

An international cricketer could do with a little apprenticeship in umpiring as part of his graduation to the highest form the game

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Whose culture? Whose failure?

British Asians are not a monolithic bloc

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The unsurprising double-centurion

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Modi's sensible plainspeak

There are other reasons why Modi's comments make sense for they raise an interesting point about the very nature of the IPL, about whether it is a domestic tournament or an international league

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Small mercies: Cricket in the time of war

War remains a bloodthirsty pursuit

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

A pair of knockouts - the India-SA Tests

Despite the lopsided nature of the games (at least far as the margins went), these were both very good Tests, just because there was so much outstanding cricket on display

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Nightwatchmen? We don't need 'em

It is internally incoherent, is poor cricketing strategy, and when the captain does it to protect his wicket, it looks especially pusillanimous

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The mystery of the missing close-in fielder

Why don't Indian captains of recent years set more attacking fields for their spinners?

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

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