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Team selection for Australia easier than curbing inflation

Friday 25 November '11

It looks like a fifth bowler would be a prudent investment.
Test cricket needs better marketing to survive

Friday 18 November '11

In India, maybe we could start by making the act of going to a cricket ground pleasant.
Test cricket needs better marketing to survive

Friday 18 November '11

This wasn''t Kanpur or Mohali....this, sadly, was the Eden Gardens.
He lends the weight of words to deeds that demand no less

Monday 14 November '11

Roebuck is born to write about cricket in the manner Tendulkar is born to play it: Harsha Bhogle
WI need to pick best possible XI

Friday 11 November '11

Ashwin has come up bowling on pitches in India that are designed exclusively for batsmen.
The deterrence game

Friday 4 November '11

Cricket owes the English legal system a big thank you
This much cricket seems too much for Indian fans

Friday 21 October '11

And, as we know, much can change between now and 2017.
'Kumble lays himself open to possibility of influencing decision making for personal gain'

Friday 14 October '11

In his column, Harsha Bhogle says Kumble has option of either staying with Indian cricket or just quit.
Kumble has laid himself open to the possibility of influencing decision making for personal gain

Friday 14 October '11

I won''t be surprised if Anil Kumble is perplexed, even hurt, at the accusations of conflict of interest raging around him.
Loving Tests, liking Twenty20 aren''t mutually exclusive: Harsha Bhogle

Friday 7 October '11

I liked twenty overs cricket, I got curious responses.
More Qs than As

Friday 30 September '11

If the selection of this Indian team were the result of tests conducted on a patient, the diagnosis would be of great concern.
Trott''s gesture showcases the nice side of cricket: Bhogle

Friday 23 September '11

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment; when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
England didn''t just outplay India, they outplanned India as well: Bhogle

Friday 16 September '11

There is a counter argument that if all systems are perfect it kills initiative; that people become dependent and sluggish.
IPL is not a problem in itself, it is what comes before and after: Bhogle

Friday 9 September '11

Summer has left England; like many of the visitors who come here, it was on a short stay anyway.
By not picking best T20 team, India belittled contest: Harsha Bhogle

Friday 2 September '11

Getting the best T20 India team would have meant flying out no more than two or three players.
India need to do the small things better

Friday 26 August '11

India needs an enquiry into the defeat, not an inquisition, and it is not a difficult enquiry to conduct.
Board needs specific plans for India''s top 25 cricketers: Bhogle

Friday 19 August '11

I suspect Indian cricket is becoming the latest member of a club that believes in a theory which, unless already named otherwise, can be called the Precipice Theory.
Time for Zaheer, Harbhajan & Yuvraj to introspect

Friday 12 August '11

As things stand, Indian cricket''s acquaintance with the number one status will be a bit like that of a budget airline with an airport: land and quick turnaround.
Poor planning has finally caught up with India: Harsha Bhogle

Friday 5 August '11

India were meant to light up the English summer with their brand of cricket.
History repeats because India never seem to learn from it

Friday 29 July '11

But, the BCCI could well say, it has always been like this and we are still number one.
India-England series an opportunity to end mutual suspicion: Harsha Bhogle

Friday 22 July '11

I fear that neither particularly wants to understand the other and that cannot be right for our game.
Yuvraj beautiful to watch, but Raina has steel within him: Harsha Bhogle

Friday 15 July '11

As India slip unnoticed into a footballing nation, there is little of the frenzy that we thrust onto cricket back home.
In modern world, cricket journalism too needs to reinvent itself

Friday 8 July '11

They need to ask themselves if they are communicating the splendour of our beautiful game enough.
Cricket survived and prospered even without UDRS: Harsha Bhogle

Friday 1 July '11

Line calls where the action is too quick, boundary calls where the umpire is too far away.
Live example of what it takes to seek greatness and achieve it

Friday 24 June '11

It is already fifteen years since a simple, elegant, studious and very likeable young man walked out to bat for India at Lords.