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Suresh MenonThe Hindu |
The IPL has made one thing clear over the years. There will be huge sixes, big scores, startling bowling figures, misreading of pitches, surprising...
Every year the IPL gives rise to many non-stories and irrelevancies. This year (so far) it is the saga of Hardik Pandya versus the fans of Rohit...
The T20 format evolves so rapidly that it is possible a batter’s experience might actually work against him. In the debate over whether to choose...
He might look like an accountant accidentally woken up by an alarm beeping too early, hair dishevelled and on the point of complaining. But the smile...
There is something magical about the figure ‘100’ in cricket. In Dharamshala this week, R. Ashwin and Jonny Bairstow play their one hundredth Test...
In the opening paragraph of a report regarding Mizoram Assembly’s resolution against border fencing (February 29, 2024), there was an erroneous...
One is a war veteran’s son who threatened to run away from home if his father didn’t buy him a kit and allow him to play cricket; another, in...
As India prepare for a Test match with possibly their least experienced middle-order ever, it might be worth looking at what constitutes good team...
This England series is promising to be the most exciting played in India. The teams know how Bazball can succeed as well as how it fails. That...
Brisbane is 9450 kilometres from Hyderabad, yet in a cricketing sense they became twin cities on Sunday as hope triumphed over probability. Australia...
The report, “3-D Ramayana shows will be on display for devotees in Ayodhya” (January 28, 2024), erroneously said a three-storey museum at the Ram...
Ninety years ago, when England first toured India for a Test series, E.H.D. Sewell, player-turned-reporter, wrote in an Indian newspaper: “If...
Fifty years ago this year, Karnataka won the Ranji Trophy for the first time and changed the face of Indian cricket, leading to the game spreading...
There was a screen between me and the action in Cape Town. The television screen. Sometimes this can be an advantage, the presentation of the game...
It has been happening for a while but now it is out in the open, shorn of the veneer of normalcy that administrators like to put on things. South...
During India’s inaugural Test against South Africa, in Durban, some of us in the media box were among the first non-Whites to watch a Test in that...
A sentence in the report titled “Cong. MLA disqualified after scam conviction” (December 25, 2023, some editions) read: “...disqualified under...
Here are two statements. “All lives are equal”, and “Freedom is a human right”. Unexceptional, you might think. If a sportsman wore shoes with...
The World Cup has gone from being an event in the future with its administrative confusions, to one in the past, full of might-have-beens. In between...
The front-page headline, “Ethics panel recommends disqualification of Moitra” (November 10, 2023), was inaccurate. The recommendation of the Lok...
The opening sentence of the report titled “Bhutan King to meet PM today, Assam border project on agenda” (November 6, 2023) erroneously described...
Sometimes an early defeat in a World Cup can be a blessing. It rids the team of complacency, it focuses attention on weaknesses that might have been...
Bishan Bedi’s favourite word — and one which he personified — was “integrity.” The last time we met, at his farmhouse near Delhi where I...
India’s cricket in the World Cup so far has been excellent. Things are falling into place with a rapidity that must worry the other teams, although...
The World Cup is often a farewell tour for top players. Rohan Kanhai and Farokh Engineer finished their careers at the inaugural Cup in 1975. It was...
The year was 1987. Sunil Gavaskar was to retire soon, Sachin Tendulkar hadn’t yet made his appearance in the Indian consciousness. Goa had become...
Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar Ghochar is possibly the finest novella of recent times. It takes fewer words to say what novels take twice or three times...
Yesterday it was the West Indies. Today it is South Africa, tomorrow it could be New Zealand or anybody else. The Big Three, India, Australia,...