By Kersi Meher-Homji What an exciting end to a roller coaster series with the third and final One Day International (ODI) at Kanpur providing the climax! An hour before the end, I predicted New Zealand to win the match and the series, especially when they were only one wicket down for 153 and their […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji India’s winning streak in the last few months has become a normal pattern. Hope these victories do not sound “ho-hum”. India has won nine ODIs in a row since July this year; against the West Indies in West Indies, five against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka and now three against Australia in […]
Spinner Nathan Lyon dropped from the ODIs replaced by Ashton Agar and Adam Zappa Kersi Meher-Homji wonders In the past no series provoked as much interest as the Ashes, Tests between Australia and England. Recently the India – Australia Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy arouses equal if not more interest. Australia is now […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji India under Virat Kohli grinded Sri Lanka to dust in all eight internationals played in Sri Lanka; winning the Test series 3-0 and the One Day International (ODI) series 5-0. And it was not just winning those matches; it was the margin of victories which is staggering. Just have a look at […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji In Part I, we had a look of overseas-born Australian Test cricketers. Now let’s widen our periscope and enumerate overseas-born cricketers to play Test matches for England and India. Did you know that 16 India-born cricketers played for England? They are K.S. Ranjitsinhji (‘Ranji’), Edward Wynyard, Richard Young, Neville Tufnell, Douglas Jardine, […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji Part I: Overseas-born Aussie Test cricketers It’s a funny world we live in. There are so many life-threatening and vitally important issues in this world today; a World War III in the looming, terrorism, domestic violence, poor getting poorer, climate change, education, housing, transport ”¦ And what do our politicians think about? […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji What a match, what a miracle victory for India! I went to sleep at 2am certain that India will lose the second one-day international (ODI) at Kandy. I somehow felt happy for Sri Lanka. They were smashed to smithereens by India in three Tests and the first ODI. Here was their […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji What a 71st Independence Day celebration for India! The Virat Kohli-led Indian cricket team whitewashed Sri Lanka 3-0 by winning the Pallekele (Kandy) Test by an innings yesterday. This was India’s first 3-0 whitewash win in a three or more Test series overseas. And they were massive victories by huge margins. The […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji To follow her 304 run win in the first Test at Galle India repeated her triumphant way by winning the second Test in Colombo by an innings and 53 runs. These victories enabled India to win the series 2-0 with the final Test in Pallekelle to start on 12th August. […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji Spectators present at the Galle Stadium for the first Test between India and Sri Lanka this week must have been reminded of the Tsunami which hit Galle in 2004 claiming many lives. The Indian batsmen did not claim any life but destroyed the confidence of Sri Lanka cricketers and cricket lovers by […]