Harsha Bhogle
Off the field Indians can’t eyeball opponents for long, there are so few of us playing cricket.
The cricket on display here in Sydney has been excellent and frustrating. There has been pace and swing...
It is easy to be pessimistic about India’s chances in Australia. Quite apart from the fact that they will play the world...
Anil Kumble has a peculiar problem. Among the batsmen he doesn’t know whom to drop and among the bowlers he doesn’t know whom to pick! We reap as we s
You can shout from the rooftops, you can sing it as a lullaby; you can print it in a textbook or say it quietly in an inconsequential...
“Wives”, Navjot Sidhu once said in a style only he can get away with, “are like pitches.
So another doomsday deadline has come and gone.
A series of 50-over games have been played before full...
Word is that India’s selectors were pleasantly surprised at how prepared Anil Kumble was for his first selection committee meeting. So it’s time now t
Cricket coaches aren’t exactly knocking on the door of Indian cricket, and captains are moving away like vegetarians might...
When a champion stumbles, you offer a comforting arm on the shoulder, not a thump on the back. It is an indicator of how you value your people.
At some point the fork in the path appears before every sportsman. Does he play to the gallery? Or does he play to his strength?
Inzamam-ul Haq reminded me of a banyan tree; huge, immovable, cool, soothing, roots everywhere you see...
Sachin Tendulkar is right, four hundred is just a number. It is also a monument, not yet a memorial! It is a monument...
Indian cricket is a bit like the movies these days — in search of stars rather than actors.
You have to have sympathy for our hockey players, who work as hard and dream as vividly as our cricketers
South Africa’s extraordinary self-strangulation is an excellent case study on what fear can do. It is difficult to quantify, but one of the great trut
In all the talk about hitting the ball a bus-stop away, why you still need a calm bowler and a calm captain...
Five years ago on a lovely, genuinely summer evening, I was sitting in a corner studio at Lord’s. India had just produced one of the most remarkable r
If you could film India play one-day cricket in black and white, it would feel just right; occasionally arresting and charmingly dated.
The BCCI may be forced to look at the reality of Indian cricket in the eye rather than offer it a bored, distracted glance
A number and two pictures summed up this series for me.On the final morning we were looking at India’s performances overseas and two captains stood ou
The appointment of Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the captain of a new form of our game suggests that Indian cricket...
During a break at Wimbledon this year, Martina Navratilova said something very interesting about champion players.
India are looking lethargic. The thesaurus says I can use lacklustre or languid, indeed, lugubrious fits the bill as well. Or leaden footed.
Monty Panesar is a class bowler and I hope India resist the temptation to take him lightly
