Once upon a time a chemical engineer and management graduate, now cricket and motivational speaking my calling!

September 15, 2005 01:48 IST
The world was a happier place for Irfan Pathan today because the new ball swung. And with the movement came a smile, a skip and a bag of wic...
Thu, Sep 15, 2005
September 14, 2005 00:28 IST
It was a warm, sleepy day at the Queens’ Sports Club, much like the city of Bulawayo. Occasionally a batsman would do something audacio...
Wed, Sep 14, 2005
September 08, 2005 00:00 IST
Like the dinner buffet at the Sheraton Harare, there is a monotony to India’s performance in a final. Anticipation, then resigned accep...
Thu, Sep 08, 2005
September 02, 2005 00:20 IST
In any cricket team there are two kinds of players; those who play to stay in the team and those who play to win a match. The relative numbe...
Fri, Sep 02, 2005
August 26, 2005 00:14 IST
By their awesome performance against Zimbabwe, New Zealand have told India to come here and smell the coffee.Now largely free of injuries, N...
Fri, Aug 26, 2005
August 19, 2005 00:19 IST
Five days of breathtaking cricket produced no result at Old Trafford. In Zimbabwe, five days of ordinary cricket produced two results. Test ...
Fri, Aug 19, 2005
August 12, 2005 01:05 IST
You can tell a new cricket season has started. Emotions are washed in public and the search for dirty linen begins! Expectations grow and ar...
Fri, Aug 12, 2005
August 05, 2005 00:25 IST
Greg Chappell and Rahul Dravid search for the right combination for India. Meanwhile the media searches for the sensational, for a story tha...
Fri, Aug 05, 2005
July 29, 2005 00:24 IST
The English media has turned upon its team with the ferocity of a Mumbai monsoon. They are doing a great job for Australia. Indeed even Aust...
Fri, Jul 29, 2005
July 22, 2005 00:02 IST
I am afraid this business of picking Sourav Ganguly as the sixteenth player for a tournament of five one-day games cannot be good for Indian...
Fri, Jul 22, 2005
July 15, 2005 00:53 IST
To a scientist, there is a romance associated with the laboratory; a cradle where some of the most invaluable discoveries are conceived and ...
Fri, Jul 15, 2005
July 08, 2005 00:48 IST
Almost exactly a year ago, India’s cricketers emerged from a three-month lay-off to go to Sri Lanka. They had matched Australia in Aust...
Fri, Jul 08, 2005
July 01, 2005 01:46 IST
Shane Warne’s predicament is neither unknown nor unexpected. Nor is it likely to be a deterrent. Indeed, another blonde, vain superstar...
Fri, Jul 01, 2005
June 27, 2005 02:03 IST
What did Eknath Solkar mean to our generation? A long-haired person without any helmet or protection pulling off improbable catches at short...
Mon, Jun 27, 2005
June 24, 2005 01:09 IST
So a little stutter has set big tongues wagging. As the Aussies may say, ‘fair dinkum’ and, truth be told, that is what it is. Aus...
Fri, Jun 24, 2005
June 17, 2005 01:29 IST
Brian Lara is wearing dancing shoes at an age where people start thinking of walking sticks and bifocals. In most professions 36 is young bu...
Fri, Jun 17, 2005
June 10, 2005 01:18 IST
I watched Australia play Korea at hockey on Sunday and it blew my mind. It opened my eyes and I saw reality. I hope some of you did too. And...
Fri, Jun 10, 2005
June 03, 2005 01:29 IST
The immediate future of Indian batsmanship — it would be tempting but wrong to say Indian cricket — lies in England. A surgeon in ...
Fri, Jun 03, 2005
May 27, 2005 00:00 IST
The Bukit Jalil Stadium isn’t the most spectacular piece of real estate in Kuala Lumpur, it is nowhere near as extravagant as many of t...
Fri, May 27, 2005
May 21, 2005 00:53 IST
If you are looking for an analyst and a thinker, you need travel no further than Greg Chappell’s door. If you want your man to be a str...
Sat, May 21, 2005
May 20, 2005 00:31 IST
Much of what has been said in recent times on the subject of India’s new coach has been unbecoming and disappointing. The other committ...
Fri, May 20, 2005
May 13, 2005 00:00 IST
So a few people are concerned that Sourav Ganguly isn’t on the short list of players for a World XI. Concerned enough to have made it t...
Fri, May 13, 2005
May 06, 2005 00:47 IST
Somewhere, in this relentless obsession with unearthing India’s new coach, it might have slipped some minds that coaches don’t win...
Fri, May 06, 2005
April 29, 2005 00:42 IST
You can tell that the media is more concerned about India’s next coach than the BCCI by the fact that job applications, statements of i...
Fri, Apr 29, 2005
April 22, 2005 01:10 IST
To John Wright being coach of India meant a commitment and a privilege. It was also maddening and frustrating. He brought rigour to a job th...
Fri, Apr 22, 2005





