Sunday 25 March '07
The night before: A Kumble talk about ‘96 win in Bangalore, a Dravid book reading, a Sachin speechSunday 25 March '07
For the first few minutes of what turned out to be a grilling he would never forget, it looked like the fallout of the loss against Sri Lanka had not quite sunk in for Team India skipper Rahul Dravid. He started off quite confidently, breezing through the early questions, but as the heat built up, Rahul Dravid’s face slowly started turning red, the tone became defensive. Finally, the jaw dropped, his eyes were blazing. Why? Read on:Saturday
24 March '07By this time, you would have stepped down from the giant wheel after that dizzy late night ride with the Indian team, still shaking your head.Friday
23 March '07High up over the sprawling savannah in Port of Spain, looking down over the hotel balcony at a bubbly bunch of school kids setting up cricket nets on Trinidad’s own version of the maidan, coach Greg Chappell struggled to keep the balance.Friday
23 March '07Just the other day, they were feted, hailed, toasted, some of them even taken home for dinner by people they had never seen before.Thursday
22 March '07On skipper Dravid’s menu, two days before key match: Final XI, team moraleThursday
22 March '07It may sound politically very incorrect, it may even seem a bit cruel, but some of the Indian cricketers have managed to convey the effect Sanath Jayasuriya has on the opposition quite aptly with this chilling nickname: Kala Nag.Wednesday
21 March '07The clouds are still hovering over the Queen’s Park Oval, Bermuda has been crushed, and the same fans who had called Rahul Dravid a ‘loser’ after Bangladesh are crowding around the team bus.Wednesday
21 March '07Minutes after he had raised some eyebrows in front of the cameras by declaring that he was eyeing one more World Cup, Muttiah Muralitharan walked out of the room, only to run into a photographer with a strange request.Wednesday
21 March '07Sitting on the stairs beneath the dressing room, waiting for his turn to speak, Team India skipper Rahul Dravid knew that though Bermuda was done, the real challenge lay ahead. Against Sri LankaTuesday
20 March '07As Virender Sehwag squeezed out that one run to score his first century in the last 15 months, millions of us would have looked up to the heavens along with him, thank whoever up there had finally made it happen.Tuesday
20 March '07I have never met Bob Woolmer. But yesterday I saw, for the first time, coach Greg Chappell in a state of shock, the Aussie all-weather mask slipping, his eyes glazed over.Monday
19 March '07Probably, the cruellest moment for Team India skipper Rahul Dravid in this World Cup so far came long after the Bangladeshis had wrapped their arms around each other and started jumping in joy.Monday
19 March '07Struggling to bottle his emotions, Bangladesh skipper Habibul Bashar says a few more wins like this and nobody will say his team ‘caused an upset’. Excerpts from the press briefing after the winMonday
19 March '07Admits that nothing went right for Team India from the moment he chose to bat first on a wicket that settled down after 15 oversMonday
19 March '07The big moment still sinking in, coach Dav Whatmore looks back on the long, hard road that Bangladesh took to World Cup 2007. And then, he tells Ajay S Shankar, there’s still a long way to goSunday
18 March '07By the time you read this, the final line of India’s opening chapter in this World Cup, the Bangladesh adventure, would have been written and probably rewritten.Saturday
17 March '07Gesticulating wildly, edgy, a bit nervous, the man who holds the key to India’s opening game in this World Cup strides across to the boundary line.Saturday
17 March '07I have just clicked open my web window, and I see this: a cartoon series on Sachin Tendulkar...Friday
16 March '07Just about 10 minutes away from where Team India practised yesterday, beyond the wild, windswept sugarcane fields of southern TrinidadFriday
16 March '07You can sense it as soon as you walk into the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain. This is where this World Cup’s ‘group of death’ will play out over the next two weeks.Thursday
15 March '07The last place you’d like to spend your time on the beautiful Caribbean islands is inside the office of a cricket board, filled with stuffy suits and granddaddy attitudes.Thursday
15 March '07We are working hard, but the World Cup is also about having some down time, says skipper DravidWednesday
14 March '07The world is holding its breath, waiting to know how Sourav Ganguly’s right ankle will hold up in Trinidad, and I am still on the wrong island.Tuesday
13 March '07Barely an hour to go for the climax, nearly two billion people watching across the globe, a minor stutter in the script told the world what the spirit behind this World Cup was all about.
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