Harsha Bhogle
The Indian Express Group
Friday 20 November '09
So umpires in India have started calling bowlers for chucking and it is nice to see a forgotten law being implemented!Sunday 15 November '09
As Sachin Tendulkar completes two decades in the international arena, we take a look at the impact he’s made on cricket, and the effect the sport has had on him...Friday
13 November '09Sachin Tendulkar may have inspired others to write poetry but he batted in robust prose. Not for him the tenderness and fragility of the poet...Friday
6 November '09More than halfway through what some thought would be a long series, the one-day international seems to be doing quite well.Friday
30 October '09Andre Agassi has just added a convenient truth to an earlier, convenient lie. In an attempt to come out smelling of roses...Friday
23 October '09Friday
16 October '09I must confess I am enjoying being a little part of a quiet new revolution in world cricket; of being in this wonderful and disarming global village....Friday
9 October '09The underdog tried hard and we applauded. New Zealand played with spirit and they punched above their weight, like they always do.Friday
2 October '09It’s an indication of how well matched the teams at the Champions Trophy are, or the result of some capricious pitches, that three...Friday
25 September '09After much debate, inevitable given that India and England represent a quarter of the teams participating, the Champions Trophy...Friday
18 September '09Friday
11 September '09I suspect the only entity that’s got bashed around as much in recent times as the one-day international is the villain in the Hindi film...Friday
4 September '09Two fine administrators stand arrayed against each other and in doing so they weaken an event whose success they have contributed much to.Friday
28 August '09When England won the Ashes in 2005, a lot of us thought it was one of those quirks, like Deve Gowda becoming Prime Minister...Friday
21 August '09If I was Rahul Dravid I would be overjoyed, and yet not surprised, at my recall to the one-day side....Friday
14 August '09So the rehabilitation of the ICL players is complete and now only acceptance remains; that and the removal of the tag which time should easily accomplish.Friday
7 August '09There is little doubt that drug testing has to be mandatory in cricket. Every good system must create an atmosphere for the clean to thrive...Friday
31 July '09Wasim Akram, always deliciously outspoken, thinks “bowlers nowadays are pure lazy and are happy with whatever they are being given on a platter”.....Friday
24 July '09Two captains, two very fine cricketers, Andrew Strauss and Ricky Ponting, are accusing each other of not playing according to the “spirit of the game”.Friday
17 July '09Without recourse to valour or drama, with no shades of character, no tales of stirring deeds, no room for circumstance, numbers end up telling the story of a cricketer pretty well.Friday
10 July '09Rahul Dravid must be either perplexed or amused at seeing his name in the list of probables for the Champions Trophy. Ordinarily you shouldn’t read too much into a list of thirty...Friday
3 July '09Rohit Sharma has been reminded, these last couple of weeks, that there is life beyond that astonishing pick...Friday
26 June '09I have just been reading the transcript of the Colin Cowdrey lecture that Adam Gilchrist delivered this week in London.Friday
19 June '09It wasn’t that long ago, twenty seven months isn’t that long, that we indulged in a familiar orgy of breast beating after crashing out of a World Cup.Friday
12 June '09The first week of the ICC World T20 was a humbling experience for some, a scary one for others and a frustrating one for a couple of teams...
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