PUMA Cricket News Archive
August 2012
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5 Cricket Grounds You Must See!
August 16, 2012Cricket has never been just about the sport. The stadium, its ambience and culture of the people have all been an integral part of it. Celebrating what these grand arenas stand for, lets take a look at 5 of them you must visit.
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Marlon Samuels: Wind(ie)s of Change
August 13, 2012If you ask anyone in the Windies whose boots they would like to fill, it’s a fair bet Marlon Samuels’ will be on top of the list.
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Hashim Amla: Poetry in Motion
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Manoj Tiwary: In for the Long Haul
August 13, 2012There are few, if any, players on the fringe of the Indian squad who can bring to the table what Manoj Tiwary does. Could 2012 be the year he seals his spot in the playing XI?
July 2012
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The Tall Story of Morkel & Co.
July 30, 2012If a batsman claims he is not troubled at the sight of a six-feet-six-inches tall bowler running in to bowl at 150+ kmph from a distance of 22 yards, he might probably be lying through his helmet. But ask him whether he would feel the same if the said bowler has been nipping the ball around and if he still says no, there is some white lying happening. The beauty of fast bowlers swinging the ball making quality batsmen summon all their skills to fend them off is very underrated in modern cricket.
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Monsoon in India – Cricket on the Back Foot?
July 30, 2012It’s that time of the year when several mothers across Indian homes are surprised to see their sons’ ragged ‘MRF’ and ‘Rbk’ bats lying at home on weekday evenings. The cricketers-on-a-break would be outdoors though, but playing a different ball game. Football – with rocks as goal posts, invisible bylines and perhaps even fake Rooney t-shirts becomes the new flavour. Come July-August, and the long-term relationship between gully cricket players and their preferred game literally runs into rough weather.
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United States of Cricket
July 12, 2012For a country that prides itself in sporting traditions that are unique just to itself, it cannot warm up to any other globally popular sport, least of all cricket. That said, the United States being a hotch-potch of natives from across the world and home away from home for millions of our cricket-crazy subcontinent, it wasn’t a bad idea to introduce a cricket league there.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
July 06, 2012It didn’t quite seem unusual when England cricketer Kevin Pietersen left his IPL squad Delhi Daredevils early for national duty, but when news broke soon after that he had announced his retirement from limited overs cricket, i.e. both ODIs and T20s, most cricket fans were in genuine shock. Pietersen, for the record, is one of England’s most prolific all-rounders and is just 31.
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The Convenient Purist
July 06, 2012They saw it as nothing else but blasphemy – after all it was the country that was home to test cricket that was conceiving its latest offspring, Twenty20 cricket. Its approach seemed to be perfect for victims of attention deficit disorders and its rules slightly demented for those into long sessions of play, but the purists had no option but to see it flourish – first in Australia, then South Africa, then like wildfire through the Indian sub-continent. Cut to 2012, roughly a decade and a few T20 World Cups later, many purists have jumped the fence, while many are conveniently seeking the format’s joys while not budging from their I-only-watch-test-cricket stance.
