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Excusing India’s defeat
By Will 3 years ago, at the end of August, 10 Comments »
I’m in India, hence the total lack of any posts here (bar Ian’s – thanks), but while I was wolfing my breakfast this morning I read a curious sub-header in today’s Hindu. I don’t have it in front of me now, so forgive me if it’s not entirely accurate, but it said of Dravid’s decision to field first: “Probably due to extensive cloud cover”. The partisanship here is like no other country. Face it; England outplayed you.
The channel I watched it on contained commentators who shared a mixture of English and Hindu. But when Sachin was scratching around, as is his modern wont, any drive which pinged off his bat was met with “What a shot! What a shot there from Sachin Tendulkar…and it’s fielded in the covers preventing the single”.
Anyway, it’s a topic for another day. Here’s the brilliant contraption in which I was pushed up 46kms of India’s “Blue Mountains,” the Nilgiris. It really is spectacular here.
Cricket on the Railway
By Will 5 years ago, at the end of December, 2 Comments »
The photographer has annoyingly not rotated this…so turn your head, if you’re not too drunk in Christmas cheer, and find yourself a really great photo
India and Pakistan resume train links for cricket fans
By Will 5 years ago, at the start of March, 1 Comment »
Via BBC:. An excellent example of cricket’s/sport’s ability to mend bridges…
1 Comment »India and Pakistan have agreed to run special trains carrying cricket fans from Lahore to Chandigarh for the first cricket Test match next week.
The match is expected to draw thousands across the border. About 7,500 tickets have gone on sale in Lahore.
India and Pakistan resumed train links in January last year with a service from Lahore to the border station of Attari.
Rail links between the two nuclear rivals had been suspended for two years amid deteriorating relations.
