India’s World Cup winning captain MS Dhoni has called on Indian fans to fill the Melbourne Cricket Ground tomorrow for the knockout quarter final clash against Bangladesh. Good seats are still available for the match from www.cricketworldcup.com “The crowds in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 have been outstanding and very supportive, and we […]
Prolific run scorer Kumar Sangakkara has called on Sri Lankan fans to turn the Sydney Cricket Ground blue tomorrow for the first quarter final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. 2011 World cup finalists Sri Lanka take on South Africa with the winner to progress to the semi-finals. Tickets to the match […]
Suresh Raina By Kersi Meher-Homji Thanks to the ferocious hitting by Suresh Raina (110 not out with four sixes) and captain courageous MS Dhoni (85 not out with two sixes) India beat gallant Zimbabwe on Saturday to enter the Quarter Final. Now they will meet Bangladesh in Melbourne on Thursday the 19th March. On […]
Najibullah Wasseh with daughter Bahisht supporting the Afghani cricket team with the flag and wearing its jersey Kersi Meher-Homji provides crowd atmosphere The England – Afghanistan match on the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday (Friday) was in a way a non-event. Both teams had earlier failed to qualify for the quarter finals. But the […]
Kersi Meher-Homji with Premier Mike Baird Kersi Meher-Homji, TIDU’s celebrated Sport writer, cricket specialist and statistician has hit a four in the recent Sydney Morning Herald’s Column 8 on a question he put on Friday March 9, 2015: Friday March 6. The deeply statistical Kersi Meher-Homji, of St Ives, has come up with a […]
Dhoni takes India to the top down under Says an excited Kersi Meher-Homji What a thrill, what a cliff-hanger! The India – West Indies World Cup match at WACA in Perth yesterday (6 March) was in balance till skipper MS Dhoni and Ravichandran Ashwin got together. They still needed 49 runs to win with […]
By Amrit Bhatta March 3, 2015 Hi everyone – am enjoying and fascinated by how this cricket can turn out, so see my analysis below”¦ Am assuming PAK beat UAE and Aus account for the superb Afghans on the 4th, further that Bangladesh account for Scotland on the 5th. An upset by Scotland won’t […]
Brendon McCallum as the Captain By Kersi Meher-Homji Kersi Meher-Homji donned the hat of a selector and chose the Great World XI Cricket Team in his last write up. Here Kersi chooses his Best World Cup XI made up of current players playing from different teams competing for […]
By Manju Mittal The Cricket Legends Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara were at Trivet BMW in Parramatta on Wednesday afternoon 25 February to launch the new BMW 2 Series Convertible. I was surprised by the number of people who had gathered to attend the special event perhaps made special by the presence of Sachin […]
By Kersi Meher-Homji Was it Melbourne or Kolkata, I wondered. Cheered on by a crowd of about 90,000 at the MCG last night (80,000 appeared to be from India– painted faces, Indian flags, whistles, drums and all), underdogs India thumped World Cup 2015 favourites South Africa by 130 runs with 58 balls to […]