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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…

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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…

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Cricket captains, known and unknown

Former Hyderabad off-spinner V Ramnarayan shares some deep insights into the art of captaincy, sharing his experience of playing with and against a range of captains from ML Jaisimha to…

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Cricket Conversations #1: A look back at India’s epochal twin tours of West Indies and England

Former Bombay University cricketer Hemant Kenkre is always fun to talk cricket with. A fountainhead of stories, he lets me engage him in a conversation around the milestone victories of the Indian…

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