Once upon a time a chemical engineer and management graduate, now cricket and motivational speaking my calling!
July 02, 2004 00:00 IST
Settled teams create few ripples off the field and indeed with good teams, companies and governments, that is how it should be. The fact tha...
Fri, Jul 02, 2004June 25, 2004 22:17 IST
Depending on your taste there are two soap operas in Pakistan cricket you could choose from. One is called Kahani coach coach ki and the oth...
Fri, Jun 25, 2004June 18, 2004 00:00 IST
England are playing good cricket and that must seem a bizarre, other-worldly, Rowling-esque statement to anyone who started following the ga...
Fri, Jun 18, 2004June 11, 2004 00:00 IST
I can’t wait for the Commonwealth Games of 2010 to begin. I don’t know if Bipasha Basu, Rani Mukherjee or Aishwarya Rai will be th...
Fri, Jun 11, 2004June 04, 2004 00:00 IST
If Jagmohan Dalmiya was a mathematics teacher, and was presented with the Abhijit Kale episode, he would have called the solution sub-optima...
Fri, Jun 04, 2004May 28, 2004 00:00 IST
Anju George is lithe and graceful, slim and pretty, number four in the world at the long jump and unhappy. She is training hard for an Olymp...
Fri, May 28, 2004May 21, 2004 00:00 IST
When there is more news off the field than on it, you know a sport has some thinking to do. When the news off the field is better than the n...
Fri, May 21, 2004May 14, 2004 00:00 IST
Achievement and success are very interesting times to observe human nature. A hard man might just display a streak of generosity, a small ma...
Fri, May 14, 2004April 30, 2004 00:00 IST
India’s cricketers have shown that they have the ability and the desire to go far. Now the administration must match them. The left foo...
Fri, Apr 30, 2004April 23, 2004 00:00 IST
There were many reactions after India had taken the last wicket at Rawalpindi and each was typical of the man displaying it. Sourav Ganguly ...
Fri, Apr 23, 2004April 16, 2004 00:00 IST
If Rahul Dravid had been born a hundred years ago, he might have been a nation-builder, a strong, educated, visionary willing to put the pur...
Fri, Apr 16, 2004April 09, 2004 00:00 IST
So, is winning a Test match overseas a moment to rejoice, to take to the streets and pronounce the opposition as finished, to announce to th...
Fri, Apr 09, 2004April 02, 2004 00:00 IST
It might seem a coincidence, the petty might find it propagandist, that the announcement of a 10 per cent growth in the economy came alongsi...
Fri, Apr 02, 2004March 26, 2004 00:00 IST
In the end, for all the flair and ability a sportsman may possess, it is the discipline he brings to his craft that determines how successfu...
Fri, Mar 26, 2004March 19, 2004 00:00 IST
If cricket enthrals us, if it displaces political rallies and stockmarket crashes from our minds, it is because of the very simple truth tha...
Fri, Mar 19, 2004March 12, 2004 00:00 IST
Everybody has had his say on the tour to Pakistan. The politicians have, the film stars have, even the unfortunate party-hoppers, who scour ...
Fri, Mar 12, 2004June 22, 1999 00:00 IST
Australia's cup of joy was overflowing and it was an unforgettable experience to be so close to the action as to feel part of it. To be o...
Tue, Jun 22, 1999June 20, 1999 00:00 IST
After forty one matches, some more exciting than the others, the World Cup has thrown up quite the perfect final. The flair and the passi...
Sun, Jun 20, 1999June 19, 1999 00:00 IST
On the morning of the finest one-day match I have ever seen, we were having a discussion on whether South Africa couldn't handle the pres...
Sat, Jun 19, 1999June 17, 1999 00:00 IST
At the end of a failed campaign, most good managers conduct a dispassionate post-mortem. `Dispassionate' is the key word because post-mor...
Thu, Jun 17, 1999June 16, 1999 00:00 IST
My world cup has been made. There is in all of us a supporter and a cricket lover and the supporter in me was struggling to overcome the ...
Wed, Jun 16, 1999June 10, 1999 00:00 IST
For all the drama that quite predictably accompanied it, I thought the most sensational part of the match actually came before it started...
Thu, Jun 10, 1999June 06, 1999 00:00 IST
It was on twelve inches of turf that a crucial match was probably decided. In the BBC radio commentary box, when India were struggling at...
Sun, Jun 06, 1999June 04, 1999 00:00 IST
Among the many expressions that become part of a cricketer's, and often in doing so, a cricket writer's vocabulary, the use of `do-or-die...
Fri, Jun 04, 1999June 03, 1999 00:00 IST
It is `pick-me-up' time at the World Cup for the two teams playing the first match of the Super Six. India and Australia have, at various...
Thu, Jun 03, 1999