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Harsha Bhogle

Mendis magic provides silver lining to ICC’s clouded judgement

Ajantha Mendis could have come out of a scriptwriter’s dream, a child’s fantasy. JK Rowling could have sent him...

Shy and mighty: At 39, there's still no stopping Sanath

Sanath Jayasuriya is 39 and not yet doing all those things that cricketers look down upon while playing.

Pietersen’s left turn is not right for cricket

One of the great truths of sport, whether you have played it at international level or are a passionate spectator...

There has never been a moment like the ’83 WC win

Is it already 25 years then? Should the memories be acquiring a little sepia edge to them? Then why do I remember every moment of that game...
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India finally getting a one-day pool

The fortune teller and the forecaster, each indignant at being clubbed with the other, rarely get it right in India.

Warne showed cricket speaks a universal language

There are many reasons why the Rajasthan Royals won. Many more will now be unearthed, for every event, significant or otherwise...

Why percentage-players couldn’t keep up with T20

Many years ago, when I used to have one foot in advertising, I heard the story of a very well known film-maker shooting an ad film.

For owners, commitment counts, status doesn’t

I can understand Yuvraj Singh being unhappy with the crowd at the Wankhede, personally I am not very happy with booing people either...

A few doses of accountability will not hurt Indian cricket

Intentionally or otherwise, Vijay Mallya has unleashed a wonderful, but hitherto unknown, word into Indian cricket.

Warne is showing rare courage as captain

So we’re into the back seven at the IPL and it has already been a thrilling journey. The crowds have been excellent...

Disease of arrogance is taking its toll

So the sentencing on Harbhajan is complete, he has retired home to Jalandhar with a fine that is, effectively, more than a hundred times that imposed.

First impressions: The IPL concept has a lot going for it

The ads have been good, some of the anthems have been excellent; the fireworks have gone off and the dancers are showing a lot of energy.

League of the unknowns

Watch the inaugural IPL match tonight as if the future of cricket depends on it

Different means, same end

Two cricketers, so different, as different as Prakash Karat is from Manmohan Singh, and yet playing with the same objective, made a dreadful Test me

Zero tolerance the only option

Like with most things about cricket, playing a fast short-pitched ball for example, everything seems easier from a distance.

Big question for India: What after Kumble?

I can’t figure out if there is a Test match starting in five days or if the IPL is beginning on twenty eight.

In changing times, Sachin puts things in perspective

Sachin Tendulkar throws up a couple of extremely valid points in his interview to The Hindu a couple of days ago.

Just like Ishant

Indian cricket has taken giant strides in the world’s toughest testing ground.

ICC must step in, it’s getting too 'obnoxious'

Some of the cricket this summer in Australia has been riveting. Yet I would be very happy if the series is forgotten, put in a leaky time capsule and

Reformists will prevail over the traditionalists

So every player now has a price attached to him; like a film or television actor does...

Arranged marriages still work, they are still honourable

The confusion in world cricket at the moment reminds me a bit of what happens immediately...

Excellence is the way to make profits in IPL

There are many reasons why I believe the IPL could be the best thing to happen to Indian cricket.

The sport remains bigger than those that make pronouncements about it

What a hullabaloo all of us have created! Have India and Australia, bound together by our still noble game...

A genius takes his 39th step

On a day on which the newest kid on the block produced astronomical levels of bidding...

Anil 600 Kumble: a quiet titan basks in the splendid, long evening of his career

Many years ago, when the nineties had just come upon us, a young man with an unusual bowling action but no passport was picked for India.
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