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July 09,2004 00:00:00 AM
Hard decisions come from resolute minds, soft ones from those that waver. India’s selectors took one pretty hard decision and an inexpl...
Fri, Jul 09, 2004
July 02,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
June 25,2004 22:17:56 PM
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, 2004
June 18,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
June 11,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
June 04,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
May 28,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
May 21,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
May 14,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
April 30,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
April 23,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
April 16,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
April 09,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
April 02,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
March 26,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
March 19,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
March 12,2004 00:00:00 AM
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, 2004
June 22,1999 00:00:00 AM
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, 1999
June 20,1999 00:00:00 AM
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, 1999
June 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
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, 1999
June 17,1999 00:00:00 AM
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, 1999
June 16,1999 00:00:00 AM
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, 1999
June 10,1999 00:00:00 AM
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, 1999
June 06,1999 00:00:00 AM
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, 1999
June 04,1999 00:00:00 AM
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, 1999



