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India vs Australia: MS deserved mates who could believe
AT THE halfway mark of an ODI on March 12, 2006, the shell-shocked Proteas huddled in their dressing room at the Wanderers, in Johannesburg. Then coach Mickey Arthur tried to discuss “plans”, to...
View ArticleRahul Dravid in the V and to the fence
If you needed one word to describe the entirety of Rahul Dravid, it would be ‘sober’. In a team of flash and dash, he was the sedate antithesis, the ever-reliable player invariably shaded by shiny...
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What fascinates me about cricket is its interstitials, its quietudes, the stop-start nature of the game, the pauses that set up bursts of activity. A bowler has been hit for six off his first ball....
View ArticleAus vs NZ: World Cup number five, done
A STORY dating back to the 3rd century BC tells of a Chinese guy who had a sword and a shield to sell. His sword, he boasted, could cut through any shield. His shield, he also boasted, could resist any...
View ArticleIn sport, no one is “entitled”
“I don’t want the labour pains,” Al Pacino snaps in an establishing sequence in Ocean’s 13. “I just want the baby!” When it comes to sporting results, ich bin ein Pacino. We are all Pacinos; we...
View ArticleAnd the cow can vault the moon
I found this bit in a debate on The Cricket Monthly on whether the IPL is good or bad: Players, financially liberated from the restrictions of international cricket, can now demand improved...
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RIP, Richie
The first chapter of Richie Benaud’s My Spin On Cricket is titled “Time to Say Goodbye”. This is how it begins: Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli sing one of the most beautiful duets ever produced in...
View ArticleIt’s about the direction, not the director
Work for a while in a corporate environment and you get a first hand view of what the cartoon above talks of. I remember the time we did a “corporate review” in my last place of work. The outcome,...
View ArticleStrike 2 for the BCCI
It was on May 16, 2013 that news broke of a spot-fixing scandal in the IPL, with the possible participation/collusion of officials connected with the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings...
View ArticleThe blind men of Indian cricket
I believe the best time to analyze the impact of the Lodha Commission is when its work is fully done — yesterday’s opinion, to which I had linked in my previous post, is merely one part of the brief...
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