Fantasy Cricket

My brother-in-law, Tunku Varadrajan just posted this on facebook. A nostalgia post, an obit he did (unsigned, as is the custom) in 2005 for the London Times of cricketer Eknath Solkar. It is all greek to me, but the statistics and phrasing reminded me so much of baseball writing/hagiography.

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Very nice obit

The games, cousins as they are, do indeed carry some similarities. In fact, New Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram (for one; there may be others) not too long ago expressed his interest in finding a way to use sabermetric-type analysis with cricket statistics.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Sep 10, 2009 10:30 PM EDT reply actions

Solkar

Didn’t he sound like he had grission: “He scored 1,028 runs at an average of 25.83 (numbers that do not reveal his gutsy utility in a fragile batting line-up), and took a mere 18 wickets at 59.44 each, mostly opening the bowling left-arm at a pace that was clocked, charitably, at military medium.” David Eckstine at bat and Jamie Moyer as a bowler.

Here’s the catch.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=30653865&id=1269483240&ref=nf

Guy sounds like the cricket version of Bill Mazeroski “The humble son of a West Virginia coalminer, Mazeroski was not a feared hitter…”

by wobatus on Sep 10, 2009 10:56 PM EDT up reply actions