Yuvraj Singh could well be facing a quarter life crisis. For at 27 years and 115 days old, Yuvraj is having to play a constant game of catch with the promise he had shown in the early days of his ...

Believe it or not – but the last time India won a test in New Zealand, most of us weren't even born. It was the 1975-1976 series and in complete contrast to the Australian or West Indian way of ...

In one of my recent blogs on this forum (http://cricketblog.aol.in/2009/01/24/cricket-and-the-need-for-comparison/), I had vented my ire on the infatuation of the cricketing cognoscenti to indulge in ...

The line is often a blur. The line that separates the game's legends from those next in line. What puts a Adam Gilchrist or a Malcolm Marshall in a league of their own – is a question yet to be ...

One of the quirks that seems intrinsic to the game of cricket is the overwhelming need on the part of its patrons to create a hierarchy of sorts amongst its finest exponents. ...

It's been a heady last week. First, the Indians got the better of England in a nerve-wracking fourth-innings chase, and just Sunday the South Africans came up from behind to inflict a crushing defeat ...

For quite some time now, I have increasingly found myself having to defend the hallowed space that cricket enjoys amongst a variety of sports on offer. ...

Sometimes one just has to come to terms with the inadequacies of language. ...

We're at the halfway mark. Both teams would have taken stock of their respective positions in the break. ...

As Ganguly's career winds down, it feels good to see him go with a bang rather than a whimper. For all the complaints I have of him, I was also one of his biggest fans during his peak days and it ...

A cursory look at the Aussie second inning batting scorecard at Mohali summarizes the whole match perfectly. Every time the Australian batsmen looked to break away from the stranglehold of one of the ...

Ironically, a couple of days after my post regarding 'old men and old minds' comes the performance at Mohali. This match just highlighted to me the difference that a mindset can bring to the side, ...

Amidst all the gloom of people being laid off from work and the continued fall in the stock market, Sachin Tendulkar's latest conquest shall work wonders in cheering up the general mood of the nation ...

As Zaheer Khan and Lee trade barbs on whether the Australian team were defensive in the first test at Bangalore or whether the Indian team played for a draw, one thing is certain - most Indian fans ...

While the grey skies on the last day of the Bangalore test denied Ricky Ponting and his men a full day's play in forcing a result in their favour, the silver lining in it for the Indians was that they ...

If only Ricky Ponting could read into the future. If only he could know what fate has in store for him and his team over the course of the next forty days. If only he could bring his gallant knights ...

The Indian team selection for the Australian series would be a keenly watched one by all, and Krish Srikkanth and his band of selectors in their very first test have their work cut out. An Australian ...

It was probably a year back or two when I was watching a weekly cricket program on NDTV, and as usual Navjot Sidhu was shouting and drowning out anyone else who wanted to say anything. The argument ...

The myth of the "Fab Four" is so strong that when Ganguly wasn't selected for the Irani Trophy tie, there was chaos in the media coverage of Indian cricket. Ironically also, though no one in Indian ...

Greg Chappell becoming the coach of the Indian team was an exciting event for me as I, like a fool, envisioned the possibilities of a sharp and revolutionary cricketing brain team up with the flair ...