Hrishikesh Kanitkar

viewpoint |

When you first attend cricket coaching at your local club, you see immediately that a great importance is given to being disciplined in your attitude ...
08:25 AM, Feb 14, 2013

Faisal Caesar

Perfume Ball |

Top-class cricket teams are getting skittled out for shambolic totals such as 47 and 49, as witnessed in Tests in South Africa this year. They ...
08:22 PM, Feb 08, 2013

Chetan Narula

Hot Spot |

Before Mohali, Rohit Sharma had opened an ODI innings for India on three occasions. The matches were played against South Africa in their den, just ...
11:37 AM, Jan 25, 2013

Faisal Caesar

Perfume Ball |

There is a perception amongst common cricket fans that India is a graveyard when it comes to producing quality pace bowlers. After Kapil Dev there ...
04:03 PM, Jan 24, 2013

Gaurav Kalra

Grumble with Gaurav |

Waqar Younis told the story with relish of a one-day game in 1989 when he dismissed Kris Srikkanth twice in two balls. First an lbw ...
03:53 PM, Jan 18, 2013

Faisal Caesar

Perfume Ball |

So there will be no Pakistani players in season two of the Bangladesh Premiere League. The Pakistan Cricket Board has denied to give No-objection certificates ...
11:27 AM, Jan 18, 2013

Chetan Narula

Hot Spot |

Virat Kohli, as a cricketer, makes you think. When he led India to the 2008 Under-19 World Cup triumph, he made those watching think of ...
12:56 PM, Jan 17, 2013

Chetan Narula

Hot Spot |

One-day cricket is fighting hard for survival. And this truth is reflected much from the myriad rule changes undertaken by the ICC every couple of ...
12:38 PM, Jan 10, 2013

Sanjay Bangar

Buddha Speaks |

It was indeed a difficult decision to announce my retirement from first-class cricket, which I did a few days ago. It's too early to assess ...
03:33 PM, Jan 08, 2013

Suresh Menon

Reverse Swing |

Players are often selected on potential, not for what they might bring to a team immediately, but the difference they could make in a couple ...
02:14 PM, Jan 07, 2013

Chetan Narula

Hot Spot |

As per Google, a punching bag is 'a stuffed or inflated bag, typically cylindrical or pear-shaped, suspended so it can be punched for exercise or ...
09:59 AM, Jan 03, 2013

Suresh Menon

Reverse Swing |

Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest player to have batted in coloured clothes. For nearly two decades after he made his one-day international debut, Tendulkar was ...
10:52 AM, Dec 25, 2012

Faisal Caesar

Perfume Ball |

The last time the cricketing world witnessed the Pakistan cricket team in action was during the ICC World Twenty20 in September. They dazzled, they frustrated. ...
12:10 PM, Dec 21, 2012

Suresh Menon

Reverse Swing |

Where do India go from here? Even in the days when they were lambs abroad, they were usually tigers at home. Now they are pussycats, ...
03:08 PM, Dec 18, 2012

Sanjay Bangar

Buddha Speaks |

The Railways team which is used to starting its cricket season on placid tracks of Karnail Singh stadium in front of hardly any spectators is ...
09:40 PM, Oct 30, 2012

Sriram Balasubramanian

The Straight Drive |

This weekend was a bag of mixed emotions. On one side, I was elated to hear the news of Yuvraj Singh getting back to cricket ...
03:55 PM, Sep 10, 2012

Jaspreet Sahni

Gun Barrel |

The other day my son was learning how to cycle - to put it right, the act of balancing. "If you don't pay attention, the ...
01:00 PM, Aug 30, 2012

Chetan Narula

Hot Spot |

A very, very special career innings has come to an end. VVS Laxman, the backbone of the Indian middle order for the past decade, has ...
04:22 PM, Aug 20, 2012

Jamie Alter

Spin, Bounce and Turn |

In March 2008, a pubescent bunch of boys were being feted in a double-decker bus from Bangalore's Airport Road and up the landmark MG Road ...
10:46 PM, Aug 09, 2012

Jaspreet Sahni

Gun Barrel |

Their educational system says 'B' for Bandook (gun), ingraining hatred towards India in innocent minds. But India remains insistent on 'B' for Brotherhood, whether Pakistan ...
02:01 PM, Jul 17, 2012