MS Dhoni: Past perfect, future tense?

MS Dhoni: Past perfect, future tense? Forbes India Celebrity 100 No. 3: Watch any TV channel for an hour, at most, and you're sure to see at least a couple of suave cricketers in custom-made suits, hair styled, seasoned models with an attitude to match-nothing like their sweaty, muddy facades on the field-telling you why they prefer to ride a certain motorbike, drink a particular cola, brush their teeth with only that toothpaste, or use precisely...
12:07 PM, Feb 02, 2013

Where are India's Twenty20 bowlers?

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

When India chased down a mammoth 320 runs in just 36.3 overs against Sri Lanka in Hobart earlier this year, a mammoth, unprecedented feat had ...
08:22 AM, May 24, 2012

IPL transfer window needs a financial cap

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

Kings XI Punjab skipper Adam Gilchrist thinks the IPL is gradually becoming a league of 'haves' and 'have-nots' - is his concern realistic, or is ...
11:54 AM, May 09, 2012

IPL is more than a hit and a giggle

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

IPL 5 may not have garnered the same TRP as the first three seasons but the cricket has been very entertaining thus far. It's been ...
12:27 PM, Apr 26, 2012

Leave the switch-hit legal, at batsman's peril

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

Even though it is believed that Mushtaq Mohammad was the first man to play the reverse-sweep way back in the 1970s, it took almost an ...
04:09 PM, Apr 11, 2012

State of domestic cricket venues is pathetic

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

Even though players from the first-class circuit have been fretting over the abysmal conditions in domestic cricket for years now, it took a bitter remark ...
08:53 AM, Mar 29, 2012

What makes a player Dravid-like?

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

It took Rahul Dravid's retirement to force us out of our slumber. Crucial questions like 'who would clinch No.3?' and 'who would be the next ...
08:05 AM, Mar 14, 2012

Indian cricket must accept it needs improving

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

Statistics are known to hide a lot more than they reveal, yet when they do the talking, they can be pretty unforgiving. A look at ...
10:34 AM, Mar 07, 2012

Vijay Hazare, Deodhar Trophies need restructuring

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

The 'wise men' have a tough job at hand, for once. The onus of curative action after India's abysmal showing overseas now lies solely with ...
11:51 AM, Feb 29, 2012

Jadeja in the second phase of his career

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

Thanks to the IPL auctions, Ravinder Jadeja has become the latest million-dollar baby of Indian cricket. Teams fought with each other to procure his services ...
01:27 PM, Feb 22, 2012

Sehwag at the crossroads

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

Thanks to the rotation policy adopted by the Indians, Virender Sehwag is most likely to return to the playing XI against Australia at Brisbane. Gautam ...
06:02 PM, Feb 18, 2012

Home and away: Test cricket's disparity

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

How intriguing it was to watch Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman spin a web around the English batsmen, as the resilient English willow is ...
10:46 AM, Feb 09, 2012

Fletcher's failed to learn from Kirsten

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

When Duncan Fletcher took over the reigns of the Indian cricket team, it was, perhaps, one of the most enviable jobs in the cricketing world. ...
08:35 AM, Feb 01, 2012

Axing seniors not the answer to India's woes

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

Indian Test cricket is believed to have reached its lowest ebb. In little over a year, we've lost almost everything away from home and barely ...
11:35 AM, Jan 26, 2012

Dravid's bowled syndrome not traumatic

Insight Edge |  Aakash Chopra

In late 2010 when Australia visited India, Mitchell Johnson seemed to have got Rahul Dravid's number. He would slant the ball across Dravid's body forcing ...
10:46 AM, Jan 17, 2012