There is no question about it. Twenty20 cricket is a game of confidence. When we look at the way Chris Gayle bats in T20, this ...
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It's funny how stumbling upon an archived scorecard brings back certain memories, and how glancing down a team's batting innings facilitates nostalgia. With the gentle ...
06:53 PM, Jul 02, 2012
To the graduating students of WMA - it really is an honour to address you today. To begin with, Congratulations! I am sure you must ...
09:13 PM, May 29, 2012
There is something unreal about cricket in England right now. The visitors, West Indies, might go into the first Test without having had a full ...
09:01 AM, May 08, 2012
Chris Gayle's odyssey in recent years - as a hired gunman or a professional sportsman depending on your point of view - has been interesting. ...
04:52 PM, Apr 23, 2012
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"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable," said the great ballerina Margot Fonteyn. Now ...
01:06 PM, Dec 09, 2011
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For most people marriage is a mixed bag of pleasant thoughts with sudden responsibility looming in the background. If that happens to a cricketer between ...
11:42 AM, Dec 07, 2011
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The batsman sees the ball in the air bowled by an offspinner and plants his front foot on the line of the off stump, for ...
08:58 AM, Dec 07, 2011
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The situations are eerily similar. Ten years ago, a young off-spinner dominated a landmark series that was considered one of the best in cricket's post-modern ...
01:17 PM, Nov 29, 2011
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The supercilious among us heap scorn upon numbers. Admittedly, cricket is more than mere statistical achievement. But runs, wickets and averages are an acceptable gauge ...
12:55 PM, Nov 28, 2011
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It was a tough call this morning - to go to bed (at 6 AM) after a late shift at work (flexible timings take a ...
11:35 PM, Nov 09, 2011
It was a tough call this morning - to go to bed (at 6 AM) after a late shift at work (flexible timings take a ...
11:35 PM, Nov 09, 2011
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- Women more stressed than men - It's official. Women drivers more accident prone - ...
04:44 PM, Sep 01, 2011
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Anatol Lieven is a professor in the War Studies department of King's College, London, and author of the book Pakistan: A Hard Country, among many ...
01:48 PM, May 31, 2011
![Vivek Atray]( "Vivek Atray")
Once the IPL hoopla is over, the focus of the Indian cricket fan would doubtless shift instantaneously to the tour of the West Indies. Such ...
12:17 AM, May 23, 2011
![Ranabir Majumdar]( "Ranabir Majumdar")
There have been many individual sportspersons who have ruled the collective imagination of the masses, but no other team apart from the West Indies cricket ...
05:12 PM, May 12, 2011
There have been many individual sportspersons who have ruled the collective imagination of the masses, but no other team apart from the West Indies cricket ...
05:12 PM, May 12, 2011
![Ipsita Shome]( "Ipsita Shome")
I didn't know Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros personally. Nor did I jump on the Libyan Armageddon to understand the stretch of what is going ...
04:21 PM, Apr 21, 2011
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One of the great joys of journalism is that it introduces you to many wonderful people, including at times childhood heroes. As a teenager growing ...
11:04 AM, Mar 25, 2011
![Rajen Garabadu]( "Rajen Garabadu")
How many times have you heard someone say "No one makes movies like Hrishikesh Mukherjee any more"? Chances are, at least once, if not more. ...
12:04 PM, Oct 20, 2010
