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World’s best batsman ever? No, the 29th best!
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 …
‘The weight of 1.2 billion expectations, yeah?’
The Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara is one of the more studious cricketers going around. The “well-heeled son of a lawyer” lists Salman Rushdie‘s Midnight’s Children as his favourite book …
CHURUMURI POLL: India 1983 or Sri Lanka 1996?
Now that the hyper-hyped, pressure-cooked, emotion-laden, diplomacy-injected semi-final is out of the way, here is a simple question: which subcontinental team will have the honour of becoming the first to …
What the Sri Lankans could learn from Pakistanis
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: India’s one-day international against Sri Lanka, at Dambulla on Monday, in a ‘must win’ match was a well-contested one. But, at its fag end, it left a …