Indian cricket team

Cricket: The Nationalist Game

Shashi Tharoor

From the colonial gentleman to the prince to the commoner, the evolutionary saga of Indian cricket

Ajinkya Rahane: Good Luck Jinx

After being ignored for the first two Tests, Ajinkya Rahane puts selection policy to shame with a match-winning knock in the final game against South Africa

Unnatural Selection

Aditya Iyer

India’s Test loss to South Africa has widely been pinned on the team management’s choice of the playing eleven

Ishant Sharma: There and Back Again

Aditya Iyer

Before the new Test season, Ishant Sharma opens up on his journey from teen sensation to veteran of the attack

The Word of a Captain?

Madhavankutty Pillai

A month ago, Virat Kohli had said in public that there were no issues with Kumble

Root for the Thinking Man

Madhavankutty Pillai

Virender Sehwag, great player, is not exactly coach material like Anil Kumble

Sachin: A Billion Dreams Movie Review

Ajit Duara

The film is supposedly a documentary, a genre that ought to repudiate iconography, lest it turn into a public relations spiel, or even, God forbid, propaganda