Cricket conversations
We discuss the third Test in Sydney, where India held on for a valiant draw. Talking Points: When a draw was like a win Steve Smith resumes normal service The versatile Mr Jadeja Rohit and Gill – partners in promise India’s decision to pick Pant despite his wicketkeeping problems Is
By Siddhartha Vaidyanathan One of the hardest things to explain is why one falls in love. You can list a few reasons, rationalize some emotions, articulate feelings, whatever. But you are unlikely to ever be able to put into words all that is happening within. Those unexpected jitters – brief
By Apurv Sardeshmukh Every cricket fan remembers the first game they witnessed live in a stadium. I do too. I was fortunate to watch the semi-final and the final of the Ranji Trophy in the 90/91 season at the Wankhede Stadium. The final is probably the greatest first-class game played
By Srikanth Natarajan Everybody has an SRT story. Some will talk about Desert Storm as if it happened last week. Others will talk about his last over in the Hero Cup game against South Africa. Others still will recollect the four sixes off Abdul Qadir. Stories that will make them
By Srikanth Natarajan My earliest recollection of a Test match that I followed was when I was probably 8. I had the privilege of growing up with two grand fathers and an aunt, who were all huge cricket buffs. My paternal granddad was the Late Prof S Sivasubramaniam, (big granddad)
By Aftab Khanna One of the most endearing images of this World Cup came in the India vs Bangladesh match on July 2nd when television cameras captured an elderly lady passionately blowing a vuvuzela after an Indian batsman had hit a boundary. The television producers were quick to spot the
By Aftab Khanna On a crisp sunny winter afternoon in late 1999, as my cousin brother and I flipped through the latest edition of Sportstar, we came across a photograph of two teenagers from Punjab, both of whom had performed well in Under-19 tournaments. One was Reetinder Singh Sodhi, a familiar
Can sport and love ever mix? No, I am not talking about the ‘love of the game’ but about pure romance and the appearance of cricket (or any game you follow tragically) in it. Quite certainly, would be the response of the diehard fan. Sacrilege, is what the companion might
When you mention Mark Waugh and Chepauk most cricket fans would think of his magnificent century against New Zealand in that World Cup quarter-final in 1996. You let them linger on the connect a while longer and his spectacular catch to dismiss VVS Laxman in the second innings of the
Karthik Lakshmanan, at Cricketnext.com, gets the views of two Indian umpires on the Malinga no-ball and the broader issue of umpiring standards in Indian domestic cricket: If this (the Malinga no-ball) had happened in the first, second or third overs of the game, I can tell you 100% surely that