Thursday 25 June '09
Last year, a bout of dengue days after Pakistan’s under-19 team landed in Malaysia to defend their World Cup crown...Monday 22 June '09
Loud alarm bells were heard in the BCCI corridors after India’s World Cup debacle in the Caribbean in 2007. In contrast, these days...Sunday
21 June '09No one connected with the BCCI had uttered the terms ‘Indian Premier League’ and ‘failure’ in the same breath over the last two years....Saturday
30 May '09It was a kind of sweaty and sultry end-of-May Mumbai morning, one that brings with it a longing for the monsoons.Friday
29 May '09In the pomp and show that followed Deccan Chargers’ IPL victory, Adam Gilchrist’s out-of-sync dance down the track and third-ball ‘duck...Sunday
3 May '09That game called the IPLThursday
9 April '09The inter-city bus station’s proximity to Seddon Park comes as a blessing after arriving in Hamilton on the eve of the first Test.Wednesday
8 April '09When MS Dhoni decided that India would bat on till stumps on Sunday, eyebrows were raised....Wednesday
8 April '09Zaheer Khan broke into a sprint as soon as the first few raindrops landed on the Basin Reserve turf minutes after lunch.....Tuesday
7 April '09Perhaps it is because of the piles of runs scored in the series, or due to the general indifference towards bowling performances.....Tuesday
7 April '09It took five years for Don Neely to write his book Men in White, a compilation of New Zealand’s cricket history....Tuesday
7 April '09History books usually lack the action-paced, page-turning thrill of a best-selling paperback.....Monday
6 April '09After Iain O’Brien trapped Gautam Gambhir lbw with the new ball at the start of the final session of Day Three...Monday
6 April '09Rahul Dravid would have had mixed feelings after his fourth fifty-plus knock in the series - possibly his last in New Zealand.Sunday
5 April '09Pace heroes aren’t always the ones who stand tall like a beanpole, run in hard and have long locks that fly in all directions...Sunday
5 April '09The New Zealand cricket museum in the old grandstand is as big as a modest three-room house but it provides a crash course in the nation’s proud history of the game.Saturday
4 April '09When it comes to individual milestones, Indian batsmen are like decorated war heroes.Saturday
4 April '09Watching Harbhajan Singh bat is like watching a spoof of a Hollywood blockbuster.Friday
3 April '09Predictability is an unhealthy trend for a game whose selling point happens to be its ‘glorious uncertainty’, but unfortunately, that’s how things have been in this series so far.Thursday
2 April '09The last time the Indians were at the Basin Reserve, it was during their first week in New Zealand.Thursday
2 April '09Things haven’t quite gone along predictable lines on this tour so far.Wednesday
1 April '09Hidden in the labyrinth of thick zigzag lines amidst green patches, a surprise is waiting for Indian eyes on Page 11 of the Wellington Rural Road Directory.....Wednesday
1 April '09When Gautam Gambhir’s magnum opus ended just before tea on Monday, members of the Indian team in the dressing room would’ve lifted their cups with crossed fingers......Tuesday
31 March '09The irony was hard to miss at the sudden change of fortunes as New Zealand, after dominating the second Test, found themselves at a distinct disadvantage.....Tuesday
31 March '09Had Gautam Gambhir been sitting in a flight for as long as he was at the crease in this second Test, he would have reached back home.....
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