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Crooked finger, wicked prances, controversies – Deciphering the inimitable Billy Bowden

Circumstances around you sometimes try to make you believe you need validation and acceptance from your surroundings for every step you take. Once the drug of impressing everyone takes control of your mind, it’s difficult to get rid of it. Early on in his career as an umpire, Billy Bowden was not easily accepted. He […]

29/03/2022

Could corona-free New Zealand be a neutral venue for cricket matches?

“I could see New Zealand operating as a neutral venue. That’s a definite possibility,” said Heath Mills, the CEO of New Zealand Cricket Players Association, quoted by ‘I Newspaper’. It has been a week since the New Zealand government lifted most of the restrictions that were in place as the country became free of COVID-19 […]

29/03/2022

Heightened emotions, unforeseen circumstances and controversies – A World Cup final like never before

With no more nails left to bite and a billion hearts beating fast irrelevant of their allegiances, Jofra Archer was ready to deliver the ball of a lifetime, with Martin Guptill on strike. 2 to win for New Zealand. A draw would have sealed the deal for England on boundary count. Even as Ian Smith […]

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COVID-19 challenge could make or break cricket in Zimbabwe

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Deliberate or Inadvertent: There should be no room for racism in the sport

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Move aside Tolkien, India pens better fantasy at The Gabba

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The return of the IPL and a nation distracted

Back in late March, with the IPL postponed, I had written a piece about how a world without cricket would look like for the few months when everything on the planet was at a standstill. India had 883 Covid-19 cases then and was entering into the biggest lockdown on the planet. We have had 6 […]

29/03/2022

Shane Watson vs Wahab Riaz – A riveting chapter among the many “Watson memories”

Shane Watson was very different from the usual Australian cricketers, yet had some facets in him that were quintessentially Aussie. He could glare with rage and talk a thousand words with his eyes, and he also had a smile that could melt all the heat that he previously created. Indian fans will never forget that […]

29/03/2022

Drink it in, India, this conquest tastes particularly sweet

36 and an afternoon of horror. We’re all familiar with what followed next. India has played 544 Tests in its history and on no occasion, save this particular first session in Adelaide, had the country been embarrassed this way. The fact that Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma couldn’t make it to the tour of Australia […]

29/03/2022

The night Rahul Tewatia brought the fairytale comeback trope to life

27th September 2020 is a day Rahul Tewatia will never be able to let go of even until his last breath. They say that a moment lasts forever, embedded in the space-time continuum of all things, all energy, and all moments. If that is, in fact, the case, the nine overs that Tewatia spent in […]

29/03/2022

India in England: Selection changes? No, futile. Tweaks? Yes but they won’t make a huge difference

As a cricket nation, we can’t help but let emotions influence our judgements. Loss in the World Test Championship (WTC) final after two years of hard grind has brought this characteristic instinct of the Indian fanbase to the fore. With angst and anger in play, there are calls to drop players – the likes of […]

29/03/2022

Does Cheteshwar Pujara need to alter his method for English conditions?

It was quite typical of Cheteshwar Pujara’s Test career that he walked in to bat in the WTC final when New Zealand had just started to get their radar right and bowl as they do at their best: with utmost discipline and consistency. After a wavered start, New Zealand quicks had reverted to mean in […]

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