How to tell if someone knows about Cricket!!!

There is something about cricket which I understand but I don't think others do!!!! It is quite similar to baseball. And I keep telling everyone about this :)
And here is one of the funniest things that happened to me. I started explaining an Indian the similarities between the two games so that he could understand cricket. Funny hmm.. but I don't think it was intended.
His name is Achar Suraj. He looks and talks like an American and I can bet if you did not know his name you couldn't tell otherwise. And he is my doctor.

Can you actually tell the country of a person by his name. I can't and I don't want to. I actually thought that Achar Suraj was an American whose parents got inspired by India and gave their son an Indian name :) .

So Mr Achar Suraj asked me about the games I played and I told him Cricket and all of a sudden I had the urge to explain to him that indeed cricket was a game played in my home and was similar to baseball!!!!!
And there he was telling me that he knew everything about cricket.
My wife and my friends have been laughing about this since that day.....

So was I wrong in assuming that he was from the blessed land of USA (GOD always blesses America)? Was I wrong in assuming that my country inspired someone and they took an Indian name?

Let me know.....

Is Chappell right for Indian cricket

I have read so much in the past few days about the Indian cricket, its present and its future from so many different sources with different biases and varied backgrounds that I thought it could be good if I could scribble my thoughts too.
Keeping the Ganguly Chappell events in mind I feel that despite whatever ganguly did, he deserved a much better farewell than what was given to him by Chappell and the Indian Board. Ganguly might be arrogant, lazy, sloppy, but on the field he was still the best Indian captain so far. There are so many articles where Chappell has mentioned about why Ganguly was a BAD example to the younger members of the team but even now we have young members speaking for him.
I am not saying that Ganguly is an excellent team player or an excellent batsman, but he deserved better from a group of ... who keep making surprisingly new and contradictory statements everyday.