cricket

The Brief History of a Friendship

Akshay Sawai

Even before the overrated controversy around a reality show, Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar were drifting apart. Here is a moving story of what was once a pure and improbable friendship between a boy from the shanties and a professor’s son

Knight Vision

TR Vivek

When an Aussie talks about cricket, the world stops to listen. But John Buchanan’s book disappoints. He envisions T20 as an Olympic sport, but has no original ideas to make this happen

Kaps and I Wish Each Other

Akshay Sawai

The legend whose name is mispronounced in his own country (it’s Gaa-vas-kar, not Ga-vaas-kar), just turned 60

Despite Cricket

Akshay Sawai

Badminton star Saina Nehwal repaid her nation’s indifference with a sporting crown

The New Cricket Manual

Aakash Chopra

One-day cricket brought in newer strokes, deliveries and fielding strategies. T20 has rewritten the game’s manual again. What would WG Grace have made of it?

…and a Bit of Cricket

Akshay Sawai

As the carnival unfolded in a foreign field, the crowds were sober by Indian standards, actresses in luxury boxes tried to look jubilant, food sellers made money, and batting technique made a triumphant return

Old Foe Returns

Akshay Sawai

The relationship between Indians and the short-pitched delivery has not improved

Dhoni: Darling to Effigy

Dileep Premachandran

Dhoni is now in that familiar place where an Indian cricket captain, inevitably, arrives. That place where his back will slowly transform into a dartboard