Is cricket everything?

It is a shame that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is bent upon calling back the England team for the Test series when hundreds of innocent

Dhoni’s act refreshing

I remember reading sometime ago that watching the Australians on a cricket-field was like seeing a pornographic film. It was the same old stuff, terribly predictable, the standard sequences, the

Hayden, India, Third World

I write this piece, more as an erstwhile post-graduate in economics, than as a cricket journalist. I pen this column as I was mighty amused by the massive outpouring of

Goodbye Ganguly

Because when you announced your retirement, you said “Hopefully we will end up on a winning note”. We did. Because you were the only guy referred to as the

Storm Rider called Sourav

Yet another glorious international cricket career has come to an end with the exit of India’s best captain and probably the most stylish left handed batsman of recent times, Sourav

Not a spinner

His decision to announce his retirement was typical Anil Kumble. No beating about the bush

Age of turbulence

The world of cricket is in complete disarray, it’s former pristine image disintegrating, as billionaire businessmen redefine and self-indulgent officials endorse its contours and road-map. The ICC, the supposed governing

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