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Suresh Menon

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IPL | When players go beyond cliches and illuminate the format

The IPL has made one thing clear over the years. There will be huge sixes, big scores, startling bowling figures, misreading of pitches, surprising...

17.04.2024 10

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IPL-17 | What the heck – more humour, less uniformity, please!

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...

03.04.2024 20

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Kohli and Rohit know the formula to earn one final hurrah

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...

27.03.2024 10

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A mature Kuldeep Yadav was the quiet success of the India-England Test series

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...

13.03.2024 8

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Ashwin, a modern master with a positive mindset

There is something magical about the figure ‘100’ in cricket. In Dharamshala this week, R. Ashwin and Jonny Bairstow play their one hundredth Test...

06.03.2024 50

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Corrections and Clarifications — March 1, 2024

In the opening paragraph of a report regarding Mizoram Assembly’s resolution against border fencing (February 29, 2024), there was an erroneous...

29.02.2024 10

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Ind vs Eng Tests | Dreams come true when you hold on to them against the odds

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...

28.02.2024 10

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Ind vs Eng Tests | The way things fit together is the essence of good selection

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...

14.02.2024 9

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IND vs ENG Tests | This could finish as the finest series ever played in India

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...

07.02.2024 10

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Test cricket | West Indies give us a peep into the past, England into the future

Brisbane is 9450 kilometres from Hyderabad, yet in a cricketing sense they became twin cities on Sunday as hope triumphed over probability. Australia...

31.01.2024 6

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Corrections and Clarifications — January 30, 2024

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...

29.01.2024 7

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Ind vs Eng Tests | India’s home record is formidable; Bazball is England’s best chance

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...

24.01.2024 7

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Ranji Trophy | A golden jubilee, and time to name the stands after the greats

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...

19.01.2024 30

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Cape Town Test | Sport, like art, need not make sense; it can be enjoyed still

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...

10.01.2024 40

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SA Test team controversy | This might be an inflexion point in the game, but we need to care

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...

03.01.2024 6

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Ind vs SA | Moving an event from the rare to the commonplace

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...

27.12.2023 10

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Corrections and Clarifications — December 26, 2023

A sentence in the report titled “Cong. MLA disqualified after scam conviction” (December 25, 2023, some editions) read: “...disqualified under...

25.12.2023 7

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Sportsmen have a platform — some use it well, others waste it

Here are two statements. “All lives are equal”, and “Freedom is a human right”. Unexceptional, you might think. If a sportsman wore shoes with...

20.12.2023 10

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Between hope and hubris: Innocence, glumness, despair, gratitude after the World Cup final

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...

22.11.2023 4

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Corrections and Clarifications — November 11, 2023

The front-page headline, “Ethics panel recommends disqualification of Moitra” (November 10, 2023), was inaccurate. The recommendation of the Lok...

10.11.2023 7

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Corrections and Clarifications — November 7, 2023

The opening sentence of the report titled “Bhutan King to meet PM today, Assam border project on agenda” (November 6, 2023) erroneously described...

06.11.2023 10

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In sport, you often learn more from a defeat than from a victory 

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...

01.11.2023 10

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Memories of Bishan Bedi — a man of integrity, wisdom and wit

Bishan Bedi’s favourite word — and one which he personified — was “integrity.” The last time we met, at his farmhouse near Delhi where I...

25.10.2023 9

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ICC World Cup | It takes more than just teams to make a match; fans are important too 

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...

18.10.2023 20

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The World Cup as a farewell tour for top players is well established 

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...

04.10.2023 6

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Left arm spinners, Steve Waugh and India’s near misses twice in a row 

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...

27.09.2023 5

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Readable in one sitting — and other issues

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...

23.09.2023 8

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Test cricket | We are looking at the future, and it isn’t reassuring

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,...

13.09.2023 10

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