Harsha Bhogle
The Indian Express Group
Friday 14 December '07
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 sow!Wednesday 5 December '07
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...Friday
30 November '07“Wives”, Navjot Sidhu once said in a style only he can get away with, “are like pitches.Friday
23 November '07So another doomsday deadline has come and gone. A series of 50-over games have been played before full...Friday
16 November '07Word 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 to assign virtue to normal behaviour.Thursday
8 November '07Cricket coaches aren’t exactly knocking on the door of Indian cricket, and captains are moving away like vegetarians might...Friday
2 November '07When 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.Friday
26 October '07At some point the fork in the path appears before every sportsman. Does he play to the gallery? Or does he play to his strength?Thursday
18 October '07Inzamam-ul Haq reminded me of a banyan tree; huge, immovable, cool, soothing, roots everywhere you see...Friday
12 October '07Sachin Tendulkar is right, four hundred is just a number. It is also a monument, not yet a memorial! It is a monument...Friday
5 October '07Indian cricket is a bit like the movies these days — in search of stars rather than actors.Friday
28 September '07You have to have sympathy for our hockey players, who work as hard and dream as vividly as our cricketersSaturday
22 September '07South 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 truths of sportFriday
14 September '07In all the talk about hitting the ball a bus-stop away, why you still need a calm bowler and a calm captain...Friday
7 September '07Five 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 run chases..Thursday
30 August '07If you could film India play one-day cricket in black and white, it would feel just right; occasionally arresting and charmingly dated.Friday
24 August '07The BCCI may be forced to look at the reality of Indian cricket in the eye rather than offer it a bored, distracted glanceFriday
17 August '07A 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 out.Wednesday
8 August '07The appointment of Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the captain of a new form of our game suggests that Indian cricket...Friday
3 August '07During a break at Wimbledon this year, Martina Navratilova said something very interesting about champion players.Friday
27 July '07India are looking lethargic. The thesaurus says I can use lacklustre or languid, indeed, lugubrious fits the bill as well. Or leaden footed.Thursday
19 July '07Monty Panesar is a class bowler and I hope India resist the temptation to take him lightlyFriday
13 July '07Kapil Dev’s ultimatum to the Board needs to be accepted; not as much because he is associated with the Indian Cricket League, but because marquee names will never be able to contribute to the running of an academyFriday
6 July '07Sardesai’s generation, dwindling at an alarming rate, was very well represented, the next generation had some marked present but contemporary Mumbai cricket had either forgotten Sardesai, or didn’t care or, hopefully, were not in Mumbai.Tuesday
3 July '07Dilip Sardesai, who died in Mumbai on Monday, was never more than 10 seconds away from a strong opinion
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