"Maybe the Indians should start eating boerwors"
posted by eye-on-cricket 2 yrs ago So writes my friend from Durban, who went to see the one-day international in which India merely confirmed their reputation as bad tourists. Oh, they are polite and well-mannered all right with the locals; they don't haggle excessively; they are reas...
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Dada, is that you?
posted by eye-on-cricket 2 yrs ago Wow, Dileep Premchandran manages to write about Ganguly's possible recall to the Indian test team in South Africa without gagging. Poor Dileep, no one was more triumphalist than him when India went on their usual at-home-we-thump-all rampage in the l...
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The Many Faces of Romance
posted by rohinihaldea 2 yrs ago Remember those first few years of courtship. Everything was new. Every look and touch was special. Every night, you went to sleep with a small smile on your lips and in your heart – thinking about that one moment that he did something that made your...
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Ashes Preview and Predicition
posted by openingfielder 2 yrs ago Welcome back...... These Aussies aren't getting any younger and indeed this series is their swansong. Most of them will ending their careers on the treatment table. They may win the 1st test but the key for England will be revisiting the mental scars...
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1st Day Post Mortem
posted by openingfielder 2 yrs ago A couple of radar’s mis-firing there then, how many times will Freddie turn to the big man to get them out of a situation? Some very poor bowling from the off, but it was a very good toss to win as its look an absolute flat track bullies paradise. Sk...
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Photography in the Wilderness.
posted by vishnuvyas 2 yrs ago From the moment I got hands on my new digital camera, a Canon Powershot A530, I’ve always wanted to take it out into the wilderness to give it a try. So far all my experiments have been in well controlled or at the least, a partially controlled...
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The Need for Esoteric Languages.
posted by vishnuvyas 2 yrs ago Caution: When I mean esoteric, I mean non-mainstream as opposed to things like INTERCAL or brainfuck. The first thing that anyone who gets to know me in a professional capacity seems to find unusual about me is that I can program in a couple of langu...
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Analysis of Faith.
posted by vishnuvyas 2 yrs ago With Scott Adams chiming in about atheism and people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris taking up the pedestal as the public faces of atheism, which have long been empty, atheism seems to be the new ‘in-thing’ as it was during the times...
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