Having spent my younger years playing competitive cricket and representing Mumbai, one habit has stayed with me — I instinctively read cricket through numbers. Scorecards, averages, strike rates… they rarely get carried away by hype. Because truth be told, many of our strongest opinions about players aren’t shaped by numbers at all. We often fallContinue reading “Beyond Reputation: What Cricket Statistics Really Reveal”
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An Ode to the True Fans which make cricket a great game !
Recently, I got a surprise DM tweet to check if I was the same Salil Datar who had scored a hundred in the Rohinton Baria Inter Varsity finals in 1985-86 against Madras University which had W V Raman. On connecting with the person to check how he was able to track me, he shared howContinue reading “An Ode to the True Fans which make cricket a great game !”
24 years since I stopped playing cricket!!!
Looking back, I can proudly say that 24 years ago, I stopped playing competitive cricket, as I had seen the future and my prediction did come true ..
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