Harsha Bhogle
The Indian Express Group
Friday 5 February '10
Shahid Afridi has always brought the essence of roulette to cricket. Not just the gambling variety but the rather more deadly Russian version....Friday 29 January '10
Bangladesh may have lost the series but there are unmistakable signs of green shoots there. Hopefully, unlike the economists, we won’t have...Friday
22 January '10There was a time not so long ago when your address defined which cricket matches you could see. So as a kid growing up in Hyderabad...Friday
15 January '10Friday
8 January '10Australia might find themselves in occasional strife, and at the receiving end of jibes that have long waited for the moment, but they are not in decline.Friday
1 January '10Another year slips by, this time accompanied by a decade, another reference point gets created....Friday
25 December '09Like a Hollywood studio production line doomsday scripts are deluging us. But as we know scripts can be scary they need not necessarily be true.Friday
18 December '09Rajkot was a cricket occasion, not a cricket match. It was a spectacle, not a contest. It wasn’t good for cricket.Friday
11 December '09India have not set foot on the summit by stepping off a helicopter, they have got there after establishing several base...Friday
27 November '09Virender Sehwag thinks Gautam Gambhir is the best Indian opener since Sunil Gavaskar. He’s wrong but in a rather pleasant kind of way...Friday
20 November '09So umpires in India have started calling bowlers for chucking and it is nice to see a forgotten law being implemented!Sunday
15 November '09As 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....
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