When you cut past the designations that don’t really matter, I’m someone who gets paid to watch and write about sport. Doesn’t get much better than that. I write for the Guardian, Sunday Times and SA Cricket and have also contributed to The Wisden Cricketer, Inside Sport and The Times. That’s dessert though. The main course has always been Cricinfo, starting with my days at wisden.com and then going on to embrace the various stages of Cricinfo’s development. A special thank you to Sambit Bal, Tim de Lisle, Sean Ingle, James Major, Matthew Hancock, John Stern and Alex Butler, editors who have given me the freedom to write it as I see it.
Very cool in that photo Dileep. You’ll be picking up the Ravi-groupie cast-offs… and there’ll be plenty!
I thought you liked me, Gary! Ravi-groupie cast-offs??
hey Dileep nice to see a pic of you after foraging off all you articles since the last 4 years🙂
Dileep – You could be right. Pass them on to me!
I haven’t checked your latest cricinfo profile pic, but last I remember of you was of a pretty bald headed bloke. That’s some mop you have there !
You , alongwith Prem Panicker and Harsha Bhogle are the three Indian cricket writers I follow and would recommend to anyone wishing to read up on Indian cricket.
Wish you guys could teach rest of the Indian ‘ media’ how to write🙂
Well, hair does grow back…well, in some cases.
And thank you. I think the Indian print media’s okay. But the TV stories disgust me more and more. Just sniffing for scandal, some of them.
Nice blog Dileep. Like your work, although disagree on the odd finer point at times, but then that’s what makes following this sport so much fun!
Cheers
donthaveaclue
Hi,
I’ve given your blog link in mine. Kindly check and give me link in your esteemed blog.
http://t20cricinfo.blogspot.com/
Regards
Balu
Hi there Dileep,
you have a most enviable day job and a fantastic blog as a result.
I’ve recently added your blog to my site: http://feedmecricket.com
It’s an aggregator of the best independent cricket blogs, providing a single source of constantly updating cricket opinion, news and analysis.
Take a look at it and let me know what you think, i’d love to hear your opinion. Mention it to your readers if you think it’s worthy.
Cheers, John H
Dear Dileep,
Hello, My name is Martin Rowe and I’m the co-writer of a book called Right Off The Bat, which is all about the twinned and parallel histories, lore, characters, and oddities of baseball and cricket—with a bit about life and literature thrown in. My colleague, Evander Lomke, and I have set up a website that continues our conversation about cricket and baseball, and we’d love to share links with you—so that we can introduce more baseball enthusiasts to cricket, and vice versa. Our blog is rightoffthebatbook.com.
If you’d like a free copy of the book when it comes out, please let me know and we’d be happy to share one. Keep up the good work.
Martin Rowe
I follow you on twitter and read your stuff with interest (usually on the guardian)… as a kid one of my worst memories ever was edgbaston 1979, which was redeemed by Oval 1979. Edgbaston 2011 can pas too without permanent scars to psyche (even Istanbul was redeeemed… another story another sport).
Gavaskar was over to Brearleys flat for a meal a few days ahead of the Oval test in 1979. Asked if there were anything he planned to do in London before returning home to Bombay (Brearly had St. Pauls or some shopping in mind) “Gavaskar replied “Yes, theres one thing I can here for but haven’t yet got. A Century”. He got two”
You are a fantastic writer, Dileep! A few social media sharing functions (bells and whistles, I know) on your articles wouldn’t be the worst thing! Keep up the great work – you really do have the dream-job!
Well Well well.. I always dreamed of a job somewhere related to cricket. I couldn’t find one buddy but after reading your bio I am proud the way you are connected with big brands promoting great game of cricket.