Once upon a time a chemical engineer and management graduate, now cricket and motivational speaking my calling!
May 08,2009 15:25:52 PM
I am delighted that the process of eliminating the time-out has begun.
Fri, May 08, 2009May 01,2009 23:27:28 PM
One of the greatest,and indeed finest,variables in cricket,only matched to some extent by tennis and golf,is the nature of the surface....
Fri, May 01, 2009April 24,2009 01:09:05 AM
In sport,indeed as in life,balance is the key to success and its a word used very often in the media and in strategy sessions....
Fri, Apr 24, 2009April 17,2009 23:35:34 PM
By a nice coincidence IPL 2 starts on the same date it did last year.
Fri, Apr 17, 2009April 10,2009 23:30:36 PM
An anomalous statistic has been buried,an oddity has been consigned to the bin. Indias awful record in New Zealand was an aberration...
Fri, Apr 10, 2009April 03,2009 03:11:12 AM
Exhibit One is shortish,tubbyish,balding and very very Delhi. Exhibit Two is tall,lean,muscular,a rebellious South African in English colours.
Fri, Apr 03, 2009March 27,2009 09:50:52 AM
It is a relief and an accomplishment that the IPL is on. There has been much discussion and debate and that is not wrong.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009March 20,2009 01:47:08 AM
For an organisation that is largely high on intent,the ICC gets an extraordinary amount of criticism.
Fri, Mar 20, 2009March 13,2009 09:48:19 AM
It would be easy to image Virender Sehwag as a pirate,terrifying genteel passengers on a cruise liner with his weapons and his audacity.
Fri, Mar 13, 2009March 04,2009 14:58:21 PM
Like on far too many days in this part of the world,a bullet left this morning hoping to find a target.
Wed, Mar 04, 2009February 27,2009 23:31:05 PM
One of the joys of watching T20 unfold is the realisation that wickets count. Eighteen months ago you wouldnt have dreamt of hearing a captain say that keeping wickets in hand is important.....
Fri, Feb 27, 2009February 20,2009 23:45:35 PM
India havent won a Test match in New Zealand since 1976,have never won a bilateral one-day series and last won a Test series in 1968.
Fri, Feb 20, 2009February 13,2009 04:32:45 AM
So there will be no ICL this March and while it might be too early to write the obituary of a patient it seems the doctors have been summoned.
Fri, Feb 13, 2009February 06,2009 08:52:36 AM
Pakistans exit will mean a greater opportunity for the genial Sri Lankans but also for New Zealanders and South Africans.
Fri, Feb 06, 2009January 30,2009 02:52:43 AM
In a dream that often recurs I find I am visiting familiar places,some I may have lived in,others merely travelled through...
Fri, Jan 30, 2009January 23,2009 02:16:29 AM
Five months ago India were in Sri Lanka to play five one-day internationals,no more than two months after having played them in the Asia Cup.
Fri, Jan 23, 2009January 09,2009 22:50:04 PM
Once again two rivals,with a history of bad blood between them,have shown us up to be a community of hypochondriacs...
Tue, Jan 10, 2023
July 15,2008 17:54:53 PM
After years of being trampled upon by the big bad guys of international cricket, Bangladesh stood up to and asked to be noticed.
Tue, Jul 15, 2008
July 15,2008 17:54:18 PM
Over the last couple of weeks in Bangladesh, the improbable has manifested itself quite dramatically.
Tue, Jul 15, 2008
March 10,2006 00:20:33 AM
The churn continues, more heat gets generated and players discover that the world is changing a little too fast for some of them. In this re...
Fri, Mar 10, 2006
March 03,2006 01:45:36 AM
India’s young new-ball bowlers showed old-fashioned virtues of the kind a headmaster would have been proud to find in his wards. They h...
Fri, Mar 03, 2006
February 25,2006 00:00:00 AM
India’s cricket selectors have taken a decisive step forward. They have been bold and adventurous but not foolhardy. They have bowed to...
Sat, Feb 25, 2006
February 17,2006 00:27:45 AM
Through good deed or fortune India have one outstanding captain following another; each well suited for the situation confronting Indian cri...
Fri, Feb 17, 2006
February 10,2006 01:04:37 AM
Some strange things happened last week. Greg Chappell thought a bowling action looked different and got a letter from the ICC for it. Murali...
Fri, Feb 10, 2006
February 03,2006 00:23:59 AM
India lost a match to a side that was better equipped for the conditions and played better cricket. I suspect they lost to a happier side as...
Fri, Feb 03, 2006




