Category: Cricket
Cricketer auctions are more gambling than online gaming, suggests former SC judge
Justice (retd.) Vikramjit Sen, a former Supreme Court Judge and a member of the All India Gaming Federation Advisory Panel, has likened the auctions of cricketers to gambling. Speaking at…
Bishan Singh Bedi: The Most Incurable Cricket Romantic
(Note: Today is the legend Bishan Singh Bedi’s 78th birth anniversary. Sharing a piece on him that I wrote for a commemorative volume that was published around his 75th birthday…
Aggression and ability to see the game differently, traits that bind four strong Indian cricket captains
Note: This is a long read. It was originally written for a book edited by a friend. For reasons I shall not disclose here, I chose to withdraw the piece…
To Mahi, With Love
Where do I begin? How do I quantify more than a decade’s worth of love into digital pixels. My earliest memory of watching MS Dhoni is probably from around 2008…
In Memoriam: Abdul Azeem
Abdul Azeem Khan. Or just Abdul Azeem. He was much more than just an erstwhile school mate, one-time rival captain, feared opening bat and mercurial fielder. He was a humble…
Mumbai Indians script a jailbreak to leave Delhi Capitals as only winless side
Mumbai Indians flirted with another defeat before a jailbreak saw it escape to a six-wicket win off the last delivery in a thriller on the Delhi Capitals’s home ground in…
Soft Power: Creating a strategic advantage with human resources and technology in Sport
If Soft Power or co-optive power can be seen as an aspect of a nation’s power of getting countries to do want what it wants, India’s push for the establishment of the International…
Virat Kohli’s short-arm jab joins treasure trove of strokes in the sub-conscious
It is tempting to write of Virat Kohli’s indomitable character, his never-say-die approach and his belief that a T20 World Cup game could be won even when his team needed…
Maverick Commissioner stays away from painting one image but offers reader different portraits
There are times when we identify an athlete with a trademark action, if not an idiosyncrasy, or an image that is embedded in our minds. In doing do, we are…
The Franchise Mentality of CSK
The Chennai Super Kings is India’s biggest sports franchise and it boasts one of the strongest fan bases in the world. There are many reasons that CSK is as famous…
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