More often than not, the stump mike provides greater insight of the tension in an ongoing cricket match, especially when the oratorical genius of Sunil Gavaskar and Sanjay Manjrekar, and heaven forbid, …
Compiling an “All-Time XI” list is every schoolboy’s post-lunch fantasy, and Lord’s Cricket Ground—the maternity ward of an Indian game mistakenly mid-wifed by the English—has been compiling them as if …
Tom Eaton, in this month’s Cricket Monthly, has some fine words on the man who used to be the world’s fastest vegetarian bowler, the “handsome” Javagal Srinath: “The guy was almost a …
In a commemorative volume brought out by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in his honour, batting legend, member of Parliament and Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar recounts this anecdote involving …
Former India and Karnataka cricket captain, Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, delivering the Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi lecture in Bombay: “In 1990, as a teenager, I took my first steps in international …
As the mammon-worshipping mavens of the cricket board turn a team sport into an individual one in Bombay, as a cash-strapped media engages in a cloying overkill of its original …
Although they were part of the same Indian team—sharing the dressing room, sharing partnerships, sharing victories, defeats and draws—cricket fans detected a faint undercurrent of competition and conflict between Sunil …
