by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine Cricket On Postage Stamps Before the onslaught of the big-time media, video clips and selfies, where nothing is left to imagination, collecting postage stamps and autographs were the hobbies of the educated and the enlightened. Selfies are quite worthless as...
by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine Sri Lanka’s 1974 tour to Pakistan Sri Lanka, the island kingdom surrounded by the Indian Ocean. The smallest in size and population among the full members of the South Asian cricket fraternity. Yet it proudly holds a ICC trophies record which is perhaps...
by admin | Dec 14, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine FLAT JACK Cricket has produced many great characters over the years, larger-than-life personalities who made their indelible mark on the cricket field. Cricket these days is a game for genuine athletes. Even 76-inch 200-pound fast bowlers are expected to...
by admin | Dec 14, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine Dickie Bird Umpire and Entertainer Perhaps the most explosive situation he diffused was when Sarfraz Nawaz, charged up and aggressive, unleashed a beamer high enough to nearly decapitate Tony Greig. With two such mercurial characters involved this was a...
by admin | Dec 14, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine When the 99 jinx struck thrice A dreaded figure for any batter. Getting dismissed one run short of the coveted three figures landmark is a fate everyone wants to avoid. Ask Shane Warne whose ugly hoick off Daniel Vettori was caught deep on the leg side to...
by admin | Dec 14, 2022 | scoreline
ScoreLine Big Saf: The life and times of an odd giant. The former Pakistan swing bowler Sarfaraz Nawaz features prominently in the 1987 book Cricket Characters, by the late British sports journalist Christopher Martin-Jenkins. And for good reason. Apart from being a...
