The Rise of the Rest

Ravichandran Ashwin: The Method Artist

Ravichandran Ashwin’s obsession with excellence

Ravichandran Ashwin: The 500 Blows

India’s off-spinner reels in an extraordinary honour in Test cricket

It Wasn’t Just Another Year

A year in verse

Cong Insulates Gandhis From Rout In Hindi Heartland

“Play the Game”

The point is simple: we weren’t accustomed to winning, except perhaps in hockey

Still the Best

India can look back in pride at its World Cup campaign

Indestructible India versus Irrepressible Australia

Plenty of echoes from the 2003 World Cup as India and Australia meet in the final once again

The Incomparables

An unstoppable India is all set for the final flourish in Ahmedabad

Bibi’s Hubris and the Shaikh’s Diet

The other war Netanyahu can’t win and the uses of 1297 pre-dawn press-ups