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- Gilchrist, Ponting and Claims of Racism in the Sydney Test Match
I guess it is not remarkable that books by players who participated in the series in Australia earlier this year...
- Bangladesh And The "Globalization" of Cricket
Bangladesh is Test Cricket's newest exponent. It is also, unarguably, the worst of all time. As of now, they have...
- Sporting Bindra, Unsporting India
Abhinav Bindra gave an interview after his winning effort at the Beijing Olympics, in which he basically underlined the...
- Elliot-Sidebottom and Sporting Character
Gideon Haigh writes about the recent Elliot-Sidebottom episode during the England-New Zealand ODI series, where the bowler Ryan Sidebottom...
- Switch-Hits and Misguided Motives
Cricinfo reports today that the MCC has approved Kevin Pietersen's so-called "switch-hit" reverse slog for six which drew so...
- IPL, Cricket and Corporate Efficiency
Charu Sharma was fired by owner Vijay Mallya as the CEO of the ridiculously named Bangalore Royal Challengers franchise...
- SlapGate, Suspensions, Referees, and Code
They are falling like nine pins. Players are getting banned, suspended and fined. They're blaming each other for using delaying...
- Protests and Sport
Major sporting occasions are high visibility showcases, and naturally invite attention from most interested agencies. International sport has always been...
- On Cricket Commentators
A very famous Marathi playwright once remarked that the value of anything that is said is determined not by the...
- The White Man's Burden
The White Man's Burden is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling about the US conquest of the Philippines. Theodore...
- India In Australia: ODI Series In Review
In my preview of India's tour of Australia, i speculated that the expectation of Indian cricket fans for this...
- Purist Entertainment, Twenty20 and Cricket
Harsha Bhogle casts the debate about IPL as one between the traditionalists and the reformists among cricket watchers. He...
- IPL Frenzy
Subhash Chandra ought to be ashamed of himself. The BCCI refused his bid for TV rights, and he took it...
- The Symonds "Catch"
I found two videos of the Symonds "catch" to dismiss Chamara Silva at Perth. In the first one, we have...
- Commonwealth Bank Series: A Look at the Indian Batting
Dhoni's Indian team has given a good account of themselves in the Commonwealth Bank Series so far. Yet, all they...
- Melbourne ODI - India v AustraliaIndia won a terrific victory at the MCG aided by a couple of fortunate decisions, terrific bowling and level headed...
- The Hansen Judgement - Fair and Balanced
Readers familiar with the Fox News channel in the USA may feel that my use of the phrase "fair and...
- India-Australia - A Great Test Series
What a series this has been! India and Australia, the two most experienced test teams in the world met today...
- India Defeat Australia at PerthIndia beat Australia by 72 runs in the Perth Test today. By doing so, they have broken Australia's 16 Test...
- The Spirit of the Game
The preamble to the Laws of Cricket state that "Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique...
- The Shadow of the Sydney Test
Back to the Sydney Test. I tried yesterday to write about the Perth Test, but given how the ICC has...
- Anil Kumble Comments on the Sydney Test
Anil Kumble, writing in the Hindustan Times, has put forth his view on the events during and after the...
- A Tale of Three Catches: The Case Against Ricky Ponting & Mike Procter
Here is the crux of the integrity argument against Ricky Ponting and his team. The "spirit of the game" which...
- When Gentlemen's Agreements Don't Work
Australia were 2/45 on the first morning at Sydney. Sourav Ganguly pitched one on leg stump and got it to...
- Sydney Test - Review
Anil...
- The Harbhajan Singh-Andrew Symonds Racism Controversy
Mike Procter has deferred the hearing about the Harbhajan-Symonds episode on the third evening of the Sydney Test until the...
- India-Australia Sydney Test, Day 3
If Day 2 was good for India, Day 3 was even better. Starting at 3/216 with Tendulkar and Ganguly at...
- India-Australia Sydney Test - Day 2
Day 2 of the Sydney Test was the best day of the series so far from India's point of view....
- India-Australia Sydney Test, Day 1
Australia won the toss and elected to bat on a very good cricket wicket. India left out Zaheer Khan after...
- Sydney Test Preview
Injury concerns plague India as they go into the crucial Sydney Test against Australia on January 2. A report
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