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
When should a sportsperson retire? This question was debated fiercely during and after India's disastrous tour of Australia, which ended in a 4-0 whitewash to ...
04:56 PM, Jun 25, 2012
"Play the game in the spirit of the game," exhorted India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru while inaugurating the first Asian Games in Delhi ...
08:49 AM, Mar 17, 2012
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
Rahul Dravid was never my favourite cricketer. To someone who followed cricket for the dominance of Sachin Tendulkar, it was nearly frustrating to watch him ...
02:03 PM, Mar 12, 2012
To begin with, Rahul Sharad Dravid, thank you ever so much for all the memories. When on 9th March 2012 you said, it's time for ...
04:34 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Hi Dravid, First of all, congratulations on a glorious 16-year career in international cricket and thanks for all those brilliant innings on the cricket field. ...
03:08 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Rahul Dravid has not merely hang up his boots; a special type of player has returned with him to the pavilion, perhaps never to be ...
12:02 PM, Mar 10, 2012
I write this as a fan of cricket, one of the many millions in India, who are ridiculed as fickle-minded fanatics every time they question ...
11:47 PM, Mar 09, 2012
On June 20, 1996, during a chilly morning at Lord's - the Mecca of cricket - the cricket world witness a classy debut innings from ...
05:29 PM, Mar 09, 2012
I remember it like it was last week. A January evening in Bombay, during the winter holidays from boarding school, my mother trying to get ...
03:21 PM, Mar 09, 2012
We won't see another Rahul Dravid again, for sure. The India batsman said his final goodbye as an international cricketer on Friday. It's been non-stop ...
02:33 PM, Mar 09, 2012
I was in my early teens when I got hooked to cricket. My father has been a cricket freak all his life and I somehow ...
02:16 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Holi was being celebrated all across India. A festival that has a cultural heritage and spontaneity that cuts across every Indian irrespective of their background; ...
02:08 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Let me get this straight. Every time a ball crashed into Rahul Dravid's stumps this Australian summer, it was because stints with the Royal Challengers ...
10:40 AM, Jan 31, 2012
The heartbeat of India - the batting - does not beat anymore. The golden age is over. I know my fellow columnists differ on this ...
10:20 AM, Jan 31, 2012
When we lose is a good time to ask some fundamental questions. Why do we play international cricket? Is it to a) win all ...
08:11 AM, Jan 10, 2012
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In the age of globalisation (and IPL), it would be limiting to restrict such groupings as 'Fabulous Four' or 'Super Six' to within the boundaries ...
09:20 AM, Dec 27, 2011
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The speech that Rahul Dravid delivered yesterday at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra was as splendid as the man himself. I sat through the ...
01:59 PM, Dec 15, 2011
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For eight months now the Indian cricket fan has waited with breathless anticipation for the ultimate cricket icon, Sachin Tendulkar, to score his 100th international ...
12:04 AM, Nov 18, 2011
