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The older you get, the fewer new year resolutions do you need to make. In your 20s and 30s it is easy to make a list: give up smoking, wake up...
There’s a scene in an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld where Kramer is in trouble for allegedly teasing a monkey at the zoo. The monkey throws a...
Strange things happen when you are out of form. Or when you develop a technical flaw late in your career. You tend to get the best deliveries and...
There is something about the last month of the year that unleashes the list-maker in us. It is widely known from one end of my table to the other...
Jay Shah takes office as chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), at a critical juncture. There is the re-entry of cricket in the 2028...
Civilised cities have used bookstores. Great cities have antiquarian bookstores. Bengaluru has graduated from the former with the Antiquarian...
India’s customs notification No. 405/12/88-CUS-III shook the world 36 years ago. For it banned the import of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses....
Coaches and selectors who train themselves to spot ability in a young player are reluctant to acknowledge its decline as the same player ages....
At the turn of the century, a friend, an India cricketer, told me, “If you can make around eight and a half lakh rupees a year, you can be happy.”...
To his credit, skipper Rohit Sharma said he had made a mistake batting first on the Bengaluru pitch, but it might not have been a mistake after...
Ahead of the Gwalior T20I match, India skipper Suryakumar Yadav repeated the essential rule for handling a fast bowler. “It’s important to manage...
In my schooldays when reading an entire series of thrillers or spy novels was good etiquette, Alistair Maclean supplied both genres. We regretted...
When you believe in nothing, you can believe in anything. World leaders might deny climate change, evolution, or genocides involving their...
For a long time now, the International Cricket Council has been contemplating a two-tier system for Test cricket. In 2004, David Richardson, then...
In the article, “The Food Security Act has revamped the PDS” (Editorial page, September 6, 2024), a sentence should have read as: “In spite of the...
Jay Shah, 35, is a year younger than India captain Rohit Sharma. We know little of his cricket skills or acumen. We do know a bit about his cricket...
In a larger sense, sport is about the strong helping the weak. In a world where it is argued that sport is an artificial construct, a fantasy, we...
In theory it is a good move, even overdue. The World Cricketers’ Association (WCA) is reviewing the game’s global structure to find solutions to...
Cricketers, like all athletes, have defining performances. The one that above all others reveals the essential style, the uniqueness, the essential...