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

Radhakrishnan Sreenivasan

RK's space |

Three innings and three similar dismissals have turned the world into a court room. Plenty of lawyers in the garb of players and journalists have ...
11:03 AM, Sep 07, 2012

Jaspreet Sahni

Gun Barrel |

This is hurting - excruciatingly so. It's hard to picture a struggling Sachin Tendulkar, agonising to actually watch it. But this can't continue. The end ...
01:54 PM, Sep 04, 2012

Sanjay Bangar

Buddha Speaks |

It is common sight nowadays to see Indian players who have done well in international event being showered with rewards from their respective states and ...
12:48 PM, Aug 12, 2012

Tathagata Bhattacharya

Master and a glass of Margarita |

Ever since India started liberalising its economy in 1991, there has been a palpable change in the lives of the 350 million odd upper and ...
04:16 PM, Jul 12, 2012

Rajdeep Sardesai

Newsman |

In a nation of multiple gods, mortals run the risk of being elevated to divinity. With cricket as contemporary India's mass religion, Sachin Tendulkar has ...
12:23 AM, May 04, 2012

Suresh Menon

Reverse Swing |

Sachin Tendulkar needs to have a serious chat with his handlers. Like a prize horse, he is being groomed and taken around stud farms as ...
01:20 PM, Apr 29, 2012

Bhupendra Chaubey

Politically Correct |

Dear Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Let me at the outset say that I look at myself as one of your biggest fans, just like the ...
01:31 PM, Apr 27, 2012

Suresh Menon

Reverse Swing |

Old cricketers never die, they simply lose their appeal. I think the original cliché might have been about lawyers, but the shoe fits. What do ...
03:47 PM, Apr 16, 2012

Suresh Menon

Reverse Swing |

Great players are, by nature, selfish (the reverse is not necessarily true). They have to be. Richard Dawkins did not extend his theory of the ...
01:57 PM, Mar 19, 2012

Chetan Narula

Hot Spot |

Manchester, the story began. A boy became a man. His first Test hundred, standing tall amongst ruins. Sydney, the Aussies found a supreme rival. Perth, ...
10:32 AM, Mar 19, 2012

Chetan Narula

Hot Spot |

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

Jaspreet Sahni

Gun Barrel |

Stop, stop right there and come out of the stadium. Switch off that TV. You have messed it all up. Your cricketing viewpoint is suffering ...
01:53 PM, Mar 12, 2012

E R Ramachandran

Cricket Bytes |

MS Dhoni's statement in a media conference that "Sehwag, Sachin and Gambhir are slow in the field and that costs 20 runs to the team ...
11:35 AM, Mar 12, 2012

Suresh Menon

Reverse Swing |

"Who will tell Sachin?" is the new national obsession and it is amusing. Less than a year ago, the same nation was willing 'Sachin plus ...
02:19 PM, Mar 05, 2012

Priyanka Kumar

Off the Ball |

Displaying remarkable prescience before the start of the match, MS Dhoni, with his usual sage-like demeanour and circumlocutory reasoning, had this to say about his ...
05:10 PM, Feb 29, 2012

R Mohan

Stump Vision |

Sachin Tendulkar's ODI career is on its last legs, if they haven't folded already. Those on the inside track say he was to announce his ...
10:52 AM, Feb 28, 2012

Gaurav Kalra

Grumble with Gaurav |

"The team will not seem the same without him. His contribution goes far beyond his batting statistics. The example he sets in every respect and ...
01:31 PM, Feb 23, 2012

Gaurav Kalra

Grumble with Gaurav |

"The team will not seem the same without him. His contribution goes far beyond his batting statistics. The example he sets in every respect and ...
12:53 PM, Feb 23, 2012

Suresh Menon

Reverse Swing |

Now that Ricky Ponting has admitted that he does not expect to be picked for Australia's one-day team again after being dropped for the upcoming ...
09:26 AM, Feb 21, 2012