Humour Archives - Cricket in Progress!

World Cup, I like you but I am in love with Test Cricket…

By Mihir Vohra | August 1, 2019

IPL, I like you but only as a friend.
World Cup, I like to flirt with you time and again.
It is Test Cricket I am truly in love with.

2019 has been nothing short of a cricket lover’s utopia. A nail-biting IPL final between 2 of IPL’s most successful franchisees, a grouping (or absence of it) format rendering the World Cup more competitive and more relevant. If that wasn’t enough, the World Cup Finals turned out to be one of the greatest ODIs of all time.

Does the ‘good-boy’ image really suit Australia?

By Mihir Vohra | December 20, 2018

Post the ball-tampering saga, Australia has brought on the field what many would call a ‘good-boy’ image. While it would seem like a step in the right direction, one could also ask “Why do something to lower an intensity which brought many accolades?”

New cricket rules and what do they mean!

By Mihir Vohra | October 8, 2017

The laws of the game are always changing and the custodians of the laws – MCC are constantly monitoring the game to see where laws can be made or modified or removed. This year, too, new rules were announced by MCC and implemented by ICC. While some rules are like daemons in operating systems, some rules will be seen almost immediately by viewers. I managed to compile the new rules into 4 categories – Batting, Bowling, Fielding and Playing Conditions.

What if India quits cricket now!

By Samrat Darda | April 3, 2017

It gives goosebumps to even think of India without it’s favourite past time – Cricket. Cricket is engraved with stone on our skin and taking it away would be way more painful than ripping off a Band-Aid off a fresh wound. India without cricket would be like a dog without a bone.

M S DHONI – The Journey you know, the man you don’t.

By Mihir Vohra | October 9, 2016

Not a typical collection of words to highlight his career. An attempt to peek into Dhoni’s brain to identify what goes right in his brain and makes him the player, the captain, the batsman and the person he is.

SLEDGING: Pushing cricketers beyond their limits or Just a distraction from the game?

By Mihir Vohra | May 22, 2016

Sledging is a dark side of cricket. It does have a lighter side to it, for those who try to find it. What can be said without a doubt is that Sledging has produced some of the greatest and the most interesting matches of all time. Sledging yields better, stronger and durable players.

Why are Indian cricketers not allowed to play in other T20 leagues? Should they be?

By Mihir Vohra | May 9, 2016

Since the beginning of franchise-based T20 leagues, 1 question has always tried to evade us – Why are Indian players never seen in such leagues other than IPL? Read this as I try to find out the answer.

ASHES – well poised or as good as over?

By Mihir Vohra | July 29, 2015

While the series hangs in balance, here is a humorous take on the current scenario in the series, the flops and the hits and whatnot!