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Riverside cricket in Kerala
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of December Leave a comment on this post
Nice shot of riverside cricket in Kerala.
Tags: cricket-photos, india, kerala, photo, river |
9 Responses to “Riverside cricket in Kerala”
December 6th, 2006 at 4.03 am
December 6th, 2006 at 6.57 am
nice pics
got more
December 6th, 2006 at 6.57 am
Will - anything to take your mind off the last couple of days! I will be in India for January, and will look out for photo ops. I think that it is the best place in the world for encountering grass roots passion for the game.
December 6th, 2006 at 7.29 am
even with cricket in the remotest regions of the country they’re still ranked no6 in odi and 4th in test… reason?
December 6th, 2006 at 7.35 am
Who cares? They have too much money and don’t know what to do with it
December 6th, 2006 at 8.54 am
Facilities also play a part in junior development - Not every Indian kid has access to club cricket or turf wickets.
With the Indian economy growing like it is though, that might change significantly in the coming decades.
December 6th, 2006 at 12.26 pm
*Grin* Gorgeous pic, Will. I don’t know Kerala, but it looks amazing.
It reminds me of how I, an American, got hooked on cricket. I was born and raised near Washington, DC, but my mother’s side of the family still lives in Pakistan, so we went to visit every couple of years.
In 1982, England went over for a Test series. So help me God, if it wasn’t impossible to ask timidly when lunch was going to happen without feeling like you were interrupting something sacred whilst the telly was on - from Lahore to Bahawalpur to Sahiwal.
It was one of the most intense, riveting experiences I’d had up to that point - Botham, Miandad, Imran… I was hooked for life - a massive crush on Imran didn’t hurt any, of course.
Afterwards, whilst bowling in my cousin’s back garden, my younger male cousins kept hitting me for six. That put an end to my cricketing career aspirations, but I’ve adored the game ever since.
December 6th, 2006 at 9.35 pm
tom.. facilities is a big factor..
and the fact that everything is focused on batting due to sachin tendulkar…
easy batting wickets… results in mediocre bowlers who get whipped all day… no ball movement.. just play the line..
when they go abroad they fail miserably like they did against South Africa..
your training needs to be a lot harder than what you will face…
December 7th, 2006 at 12.50 am
Yes I know it’s a big factor…look at what I said…
In a country of one billion there is expectations they could produce far better cricketers than Australia, which has a population of only 21 million. However the reason Australian cricketers are so good is they are brought up playing for clubs since they were 7 or 8, and there is consistant competitive matches.
India is a devloping country, but still has extreme poverty in areas. There is no where near the depth of organised cricket as there is in England or Australia.
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