During the course of a magnificent, marauding and merciless century which took the wind out of the collective sails of the Sri Lankans…
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On an overcast August day in the year 2002 at Headingly, Leeds, Sourav Ganguly won the toss and, much to the bewilderment of experts…
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Shivnarine Chanderpaul – A Blind Watchmaker but never Dobell’s ‘Selfish Gene’
by VenkyThe erudite and extremely readable George Dobell, in an insightful piece has gone on to describe Shivnarine Chanderpaul as not only a dogged…
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The man who according to the former Australian captain Ian Chappell, was in possession of ‘peripheral awareness’ prepared himself to face Shakib Al…
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The swagger that had etched itself as an integral part of cricketing folklore was unmistakably there. The attitude of nonchalance accompanying every step…
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When the compact former India opening batsman Aakash Chopra penned Beyond the Blues: A First-Class Season Like No Other”, he revealed that he had as…
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The first time I set my sight on a portly cricketer was in the form of a picture of a rotund Colin Milburn…
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E.W.Swanton, an undisputed doyen amongst the chroniclers of the pristine game of cricket, in this masterpiece, pays tribute to 75 of the most ebullient,…
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“Controversially Yours” arguably has to be the most wayward delivery bowled by Shoaib Akthar in his career till date! Irreverent, irascible and for…
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When the resilient Rahul Sharad Dravid retired after playing his first, last and only international T20 cricket match, he finished with a strike…