Akshay Sawai

It was a boyhood fantasy to disrobe the glittering 5 Star and devour it. I dreamt, I salivated, I even stole money to get my fix.

It’s the country’s fastest growing sport. It has sponsorship money other sports envy. But you have to catch a champion like Jeev Milkha Singh to get its essence.

Life that ebbed and flowed around the field as one man came close to a triple century.

Most Maharashtrians look down upon ‘leaders’ like Raj Thackeray, but he is politically successful because of a strange Marathi gene.

From the sidelines of the most prestigious Indian cricket honours, the Ceat Cricket Rating awards

A look at the man who lurks inside the run machine called Sachin Tendulkar—his unique stamina, his famous humility, his constant disappointment with humanity...

We played carom. If someone made a great connection, Sachin, kissing his own fingertips, would say, “Chumma shot”.

Suresh Kalmadi and his battle with White men over the Commonwealth Games.

It was unthinkable. That a day would come when the urban Indian male would admit he is bored of cricket. But the truth is that the sport is fast losing its charm among its most commercially influential devouts

Laughing is fun, more so when it is forbidden. Welcome to the world of inappropriate gigglers.