This is the page that we dedicate to our decades of viewing the game.
Tugga started watching the game when he was in a cradle, PK when he learnt to utter his first words and MARS tuned in to her first love in her pre-teens.
Over the years we have caught many a match live at the stadium, followed them on radio in college pretending to study for our engineering exams and the rest were caught on television – either live or highlights.
Many an innings and a match can be recalled ball-by-ball, shot-by-shot. So, instead of repeating those moments among us whenever we discuss cricket – we thought we would put it up on this page. It will not only save us the energy of referring those historic incidents time and again; but will also be a good refreshing view of our take on the matches gone by for the readers to browse through.
Let us know if you would want to hear from us on your favourite matches gone by and we will try our best to come up with the Ultimate Action Replay!
For the column archives click here.
do you take requests? will allow genuine banter to emerge, wot? i.e. i have several memories of my own, as I’m sure will millions of your readers.
So if our memories co-incide and you write on them, more are the chances of me reading, entering the debate, wot not?
Here’s some to try on for size
1. Ganguly’s five-for at Toronto with Malik desparately trying to find mid-off for a catch, succeeding in his 3rd attempt. Fixed?
2. Noel David (do you remember?!), then thought to be India’s best off spinner and best ever fielder, came to the side with a famous straighter one. On his first ball he argued with the captain (azhar) to give him a slip, was denied, and what happens? First ball (I think to an in form Basit Ali) was a beautiful drifter, caught the edge, would have been a comfortable first slipper’s catch which would turn the match, instead went for 4. Noel bowled 3 overs for 15 runs without further incident, and never played for India again. One captaincy mistake – one career gone.
3. Kambli was India’s second highest scorer in the 96 world cup behind sachin. He was dropped for 6 years. hmmm…
4. ‘That’ quarter final
5. Vinayak Mane’s defiant 100 batting for mumbai vs Australia. He hit Warne’s first first class over in India (I think) for >20 runs! (I was there : ))
And more…
Food for thought, is all..
@Mandar: First of all welcome to our world! Oh we would love to get requests from readers and we would love to have the readers contribute as well – columns or debates anything;-) That’s the beauty of the blogworld!
You have given me tons of food for thought – Yes I do remember Noel David though I’m not sure if he was “the best off-spinner”:-) But he was an outstanding fielder! By that quarterfinal – I suppose you mean the one where Jadeja got that magical 45 off 25 balls of which 40 were off Waqar’s 2 overs?;-)) Yeah that was top on the list!
We welcome your requests so do write in – and we will try our best to recount those moments – and look forward to the debate and discussions!
Yep, that quarter final indeed. first time i ever saw a batsman going on the backfoot to a near yorker and hitting it for six!
And erm ok, best off-spinner was an exaggeration, but the only other off spinner of note then was a pathetic rajesh chauhan.
which brings another memory to the fore. Rajesh Chauhan hitting 2 sixes when India needed like 10 off 3 balls or something in Lahore! And worse, this moment was captured later in an ad (again I forget which brand) where he was shown wearing insane make-up and made a fool of himself.
Ah, memories..