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Afridi’s bite has sparked a nice debate on tampering

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....
Bangladesh have the talent, but need to focus on the basics now

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...
Google deal makes geographical boundaries irrelevant

Friday 22 January '10

There 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...
Rankings may suggest the Aussies are in decline, their cricket doesn’t

Friday 8 January '10

Australia 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.
Which format will dominate ?

Friday 1 January '10

Another year slips by, this time accompanied by a decade, another reference point gets created....
Test cricket dying? Not if you look back at the decade gone by

Friday 25 December '09

Like a Hollywood studio production line doomsday scripts are deluging us. But as we know scripts can be scary they need not necessarily be true.
Why the run-fest in Rajkot was not good for cricket

Friday 18 December '09

Rajkot was a cricket occasion, not a cricket match. It was a spectacle, not a contest. It wasn’t good for cricket.
India’s No.1 ranking must be seen with sense of history

Friday 11 December '09

India have not set foot on the summit by stepping off a helicopter, they have got there after establishing several base...
Sehwag-Gambhir can be India’s greatest pair

Friday 27 November '09

Virender Sehwag thinks Gautam Gambhir is the best Indian opener since Sunil Gavaskar. He’s wrong but in a rather pleasant kind of way...
Like suspect actions, Board should crack down on overage players too

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!
Twenty Years Later

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...
Solid. Robust. Focussed.

Friday 13 November '09

Sachin Tendulkar may have inspired others to write poetry but he batted in robust prose. Not for him the tenderness and fragility of the poet...
One-day internationals seem to be in extraordinarily robust health

Friday 6 November '09

More than halfway through what some thought would be a long series, the one-day international seems to be doing quite well.
Pardoning Agassi will allow other players to cross the line

Friday 30 October '09

Andre Agassi has just added a convenient truth to an earlier, convenient lie. In an attempt to come out smelling of roses...
There is now life beyond internationals and for that we must rejoice

Friday 16 October '09

I 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....
Australia played the big moments better

Friday 9 October '09

The underdog tried hard and we applauded. New Zealand played with spirit and they punched above their weight, like they always do.
Indian team didn’t adapt well enough

Friday 2 October '09

It’s an indication of how well matched the teams at the Champions Trophy are, or the result of some capricious pitches, that three...
Future of one-day cricket will be decided by the spectators

Friday 25 September '09

After much debate, inevitable given that India and England represent a quarter of the teams participating, the Champions Trophy...
Don’t write off one-dayers just yet

Friday 11 September '09

I 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...
IPL needs to move away from personality cults

Friday 4 September '09

Two fine administrators stand arrayed against each other and in doing so they weaken an event whose success they have contributed much to.
England now need to prove that they can keep winning

Friday 28 August '09

When England won the Ashes in 2005, a lot of us thought it was one of those quirks, like Deve Gowda becoming Prime Minister...
Dravid’s return to ODI frame is not a surprise

Friday 21 August '09

If I was Rahul Dravid I would be overjoyed, and yet not surprised, at my recall to the one-day side....
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