My Mommy Helps Me (Sung to: “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean”) My mommy helps me when I’m sick. My mommy helps me when I’m blue. My mommy helps me when I’m sad. Thanks, Mom, for all that you do! You help, you help, You help me feel so much better. You help, you help, You help me feel so …

Ten little fingers! Ten little toes! Two little ears! And one little nose! Two little eyes that shine so bright! And one little mouth! To kiss Mama Good Night. ∼ Sanjay Ahluwalia

In cricket, a player’s batting average is the total number of runs he has scored divided by the number of times he has been out. Since the number of runs a player scores and how often he gets out are primarily measures of his playing ability, and largely independent of his team mates, the batting average is a good statistic …

Taking cue from sports bodies around the world, the ICC and Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations launched the ‘Hall of Fame’ as part of the centenary year celebrations. Initially, 55 cricketers – from Richie Benaud to Sunil Gavaskar – were inducted. The inductees received a Fame cap. The elected members also get a chance to recommend other cricketers as inductees. …

There is no hard and fast rule about choosing cricket colours. In most cases, the country adopts colours from their national flags – as Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, West Indies, Zimbabwe do. In some cases, the country wears the national colours – Australia wears green and gold, Holland wears orange, South Africa wears dark green and New Zealand wears black (silver …

‘Yorker’ is a cricketing term for a straight ball that passes underneath the striker’s bat, especially by pitching it right up to or just inside the popping crease. To ‘york’ means to cheat, trick or over-reach a person. It is also called so because its aim is to ‘entice’ the batsman, who, in moving forward to play it as a …

The words ‘on’ and ‘off’ originate from the offside and near side of a horse or carriage, the ‘offside’ being the opposite side, which a driver walks or rider mounts. The origin of the word ‘slips’ is hinted at in an early description of the long stop, who “is required to cover many slips from the bat”. Early cricket writers …

The 1995-96 World Cup series in Australia saw the first use of shirt numbers in international cricket, with most players assigned their number and some players getting to choose their number. Other countries soon adopted the practice, but it wasn’t until several years later that players would consistently wear the same number all year. Player numbering was first used in …

I could paint a poem On your back With a Chinese brush And India ink. And then, with a razor Or pin or sliver of bamboo And a stolen hotel towel (to daub the blood and excess black), I could make it Permanent. I have seen this done Before on television And in movies. But You would never allow This …