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October 29, 2004 00:17 IST
It is no accident that Australia have their hands around the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. They have played and looked like the world champions th...
Fri, Oct 29, 2004
October 22, 2004 00:00 IST
A world record has fallen to the greatest leg spinner in the game, a legend has gone past 400 wickets, a most impressionable young man has m...
Fri, Oct 22, 2004
October 19, 2004 00:55 IST
It rained and that’s it. India must move on and not let what might have been ruin what can still be. If there is anything this Test mat...
Tue, Oct 19, 2004
October 18, 2004 00:53 IST
After all the theories and debates, on nightwatchmen, on farming the strike, on patience, on fourth innings targets, the match took its own ...
Mon, Oct 18, 2004
October 17, 2004 00:00 IST
To the foreign eye, India’s cricket pitches are like the Mumbai transport system, seeming to crumble any moment and yet, somehow, holdi...
Sun, Oct 17, 2004
October 16, 2004 00:18 IST
For a major part of the day it seemed like there were two different Test matches going on. Virender Sehwag was playing in one of them, the c...
Sat, Oct 16, 2004
October 15, 2004 00:00 IST
And you thought the silly and the unexpected happened only in one-day cricket. An Australian batsman walked when the umpire gave him not-out...
Fri, Oct 15, 2004
October 11, 2004 00:33 IST
Indiaaaaah-Indiaaaaah! the crowds chanted as the tail showed some spirit after the match had been lost. Funny guys because they really shoul...
Mon, Oct 11, 2004
October 10, 2004 00:00 IST
This Test match has been about the delightful, the inexplicable and the forgettable; and as the days wore on, it moved sadly in that order. ...
Sun, Oct 10, 2004
October 09, 2004 00:12 IST
India can draw great heart from their efforts at finding a tough, gritty number seven but their search for a world-class wicket keeper didn&...
Sat, Oct 09, 2004
October 08, 2004 00:24 IST
I must confess I have been enjoying myself enormously over the last two days. The cricket has been outstanding, the players competitive, the...
Fri, Oct 08, 2004
October 08, 2004 00:10 IST
You would believe, and with good reason, that, geographically and culturally, Australians and Indians are miles apart. And yet, for a while ...
Fri, Oct 08, 2004
October 07, 2004 00:29 IST
A monument was built and a seed was sown and both were thrilling to watch. One man showed why the word ‘‘great’’ sits hu...
Thu, Oct 07, 2004
October 01, 2004 00:50 IST
Something bizarre might happen on the 6th of October. A bowler might run in, ball in hand, with only the thought of getting a batsman out oc...
Fri, Oct 01, 2004
September 24, 2004 00:31 IST
India’s cricketers aren’t as good as we pretend they are but they are not as bad as we portray in our favourite disaster scenarios...
Fri, Sep 24, 2004
September 17, 2004 00:12 IST
It has been a week to forget. Cricket didn’t have to suffer from a war or a bombing but it stooped. World cricket is the poorer for the...
Fri, Sep 17, 2004
September 10, 2004 00:04 IST
There would seem to be little in common between the worldly wise experienced pro just named the best player of the year and the bubbly young...
Fri, Sep 10, 2004
September 03, 2004 01:21 IST
Proud teams hurt when they lose badly and you can be sure this Indian team will be hurting. But the pain is only an indicator, not the solut...
Fri, Sep 03, 2004
August 27, 2004 00:12 IST
It would be tempting, and egotistical, to ignore Mathew Hayden’s remark about players from the sub-continent being selfish. You could c...
Fri, Aug 27, 2004
August 20, 2004 01:37 IST
With his last two shots Major Rajyavardhan Rathore has ensured a permanence in our memory. Pioneers do that. Wilson Jones did, Kamaljit Sand...
Fri, Aug 20, 2004
August 13, 2004 00:00 IST
For most people the Olympics are a four-year tryst with destiny, the last station on a journey of doubts and successes, of self-discovery, o...
Fri, Aug 13, 2004
August 06, 2004 00:00 IST
Sometimes it is best to let the dust settle, to make the mind less bloodthirsty, to appeal to gentler emotions. And so it is with the Asia C...
Fri, Aug 06, 2004
July 30, 2004 00:07 IST
India have had a couple of outstanding innings played against them and have found two lenient magistrates to get them out of jail when all t...
Fri, Jul 30, 2004
July 23, 2004 00:00 IST
There is a lot of rust in the air in Colombo and it is not just the proximity to the sea that is causing it. Batsmen have found their foot r...
Fri, Jul 23, 2004
July 16, 2004 00:00 IST
The Asia Cup is a strange tournament, remembered, a bit like the Olympics during the Cold War, for its absences rather than the presence of ...
Fri, Jul 16, 2004





