Inspirational Stories, spiced with Humour
Ninety-seven runs in fifty balls! That is not a cricket score. That is a public announcement that the bowlers may kindly reconsider their career choices. The West Indies had piled up a total so enormous that even optimistic Indian uncles travelling in Mumbai locals, who know more about cricket than…
It’s been a strange spectacle, isn’t it? Eleven men in blue who carry the hopes of a billion people on their shoulders, but when they walk the field in the Asian Cup, their behaviour reeks not of victors, but sulking losers. The scoreboard may tell us we’ve won, but the…
Ah, what a win that was! The streets were alive with cheers, people were dancing on balconies, and social media erupted with messages like, “We did it!” Of course, by “we,” most of us meant “they” — the eleven chaps who actually played the game. But that didn’t stop us…
I love playing cricket, and even now am called down by the local Royal Blues team to play for them, especially when they have a player short. They tell me they love the four I pull over the bowler’s head and I laugh, because I know that that shot came…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.
