that ghost of Cricket

It’s a strange thing really. I’ve written so many posts before this but the only ones that have really elicited any sort of response are the ones on Cricket. Just shows what a Cricket crazy tribe we Indians are. It’s been 6 years now since I stopped playing competitive Cricket in India and barring my forays into Indoor Cricket in Dubai, my contact with Cricket has been largely vicarious. It’s a thrill though to be able to speculate on a sport of which I have been an exponent for half my life and of which I have many many fond memories.
A lot of the responses I received seemed to indicate that not many current/former professional Cricketers are part of the blogworld (I suppose people were kicked to think that I was not merely an armchair expert). This is understandable; Cricketers aren’t known to be God’s more erudite creatures. I'm not complaining...for me there's this thrill when people who are decidedly more cerebral than I am throw questions at me as if at an expert.
Playing the game at a high level is no automatic qualification of expertise and vice versa. However, be that as it may, I have received some very interesting questions and I will attempt to answer them over this weekend. Watch this space....