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Cricketing conflicts
5 April 2018 8:31 PM ISTThe ICC Chief has avoided confrontation and taken the easy way out to address the recent ball-tampering scuffle.
Gentleman's game thwarted
27 March 2018 8:18 PM ISTWith the Steve Smith fiasco in South Africa, cricket can expect some good only after processing realisations and assuring repentance.
Vested interests hijack discussion
2 Jun 2017 9:22 PM ISTBoth coach and captain should work in Indian cricket’s interest, writes Veturi Srivatsa.
Narsingh’s case an indictment of NADA and political forces
21 Aug 2016 4:19 AM ISTIronically, the day woman wrestler Sakshi Malik brought in India’s first medal at the Rio Olympics, the cricket-loony country may have had greater...
Justice Lodha panel recommendations: BCCI is caught in a cleft stick!
26 Feb 2016 4:57 AM ISTThe Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) is, perhaps, the only unit affiliated to the Indian cricket board to have rejected almost all the...
Is T-20 India’s test grouse?
21 Aug 2014 4:06 AM ISTAsk any player anywhere in the world and he will say Test cricket is the ultimate. But today, though he may not openly admit it, he knows in his heart...
When it rained medals again
7 Aug 2014 2:18 AM ISTIf you take away 2010 New Delhi, the benchmark for India at the Commonwealth Games has been 2002 Manchester when they crossed the 50-medal mark for...
Commonwealth is still beyond limits for some
30 July 2014 3:33 AM ISTThe Games are invariably held in British Isles, Australia, Canada or New Zealand. The only exceptions were Kingston, Jamaica, in 1966, Kuala Lumpur in...
That game theory to feel good about
13 July 2014 3:54 AM ISTUnion Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is, perhaps, the first finance minister who paused during his ‘super’ budget speech to talk of the needs of Indian...
Tendulkar’s legacy would inspire others
13 Oct 2013 4:52 AM ISTOnly he decided to call time, last year from ODIs and now from Test cricket. He is going out at a time and place of his choosing, not at the prompting...
Why this hullabaloo about Parvez Rasool?
8 Aug 2013 2:54 AM ISTParvez Ghulam Rasool Zargar, to give his full name, is a decent offspinner and handy batsman to be considered a bowling all-rounder. It is immaterial...
Brics agrees to form bank, undecided on capital
29 March 2013 7:35 AM ISTThe Brics nations have formally decided to establish a new development bank to finance infrastructure projects and to create a $100 billion...