The Nationalism Advantage?
By all accounts, the government should be under pressure post Pulwama. Under its direct watch, a horrific terrorist attack took place which took the lives of 40 CRPF personnel. Beyond this incident,...
View ArticleChris Gayle & Glenn Maxwell: The sleeping giants are waking up just before...
I remember when I was a teenager, playing gully cricket with tennis balls, with my friends every evening. There were always a few batsmen who were known for their fierce hitting skills. Young men who...
View ArticleStrengths and weaknesses of team India
The dream of defending the coveted title of the World Champions shattered in the World Cup 2015. That’s why the men in blue are desperate to add the third trophy to their cabinet over the...
View ArticleWith a winning start, India must look to maintain momentum
India couldn’t have asked for a better start to its World Cup campaign than its hard fought win against South Africa. The victory was powered by superlative performances from India’s bowling department...
View ArticleCricket mania hits fever pitch, but it is OK not to bleed blue
I have decided not to watch India playing during the World Cup. I cannot handle the tension. It does bad things to my heart and digestion. Sometimes, it gets so bad, I feel like throwing...
View ArticleRain, oh rain why you like England so much but India so very little?
I confess to a sin. I have no interest in cricket. Except when Virat gets married to Anushka. In a Tuscan villa. I love Tuscan villas. Bacchus frolicking all day. Warm walls of limestone. Softly...
View ArticleIs smaller better?
There was a time when cricket lovers would fantasise about the kind of team that would have been possible to put together if India and Pakistan had not been partitioned. The combination of Indian...
View ArticleDhoni: A Lion in Winter
What was MS Dhoni watching on Netflix ahead of the game? Orange is the New Block. Jokes aside, the “India coulda shoulda woulda won the game against England” theory is premised on the assumption that...
View ArticleWhy Ravindra Jadeja is a ‘bit’ wrong to bring Sanjay Manjrekar’s personal...
While everyone agrees criticism is a ‘necessary evil’ for personal growth and improvement, not many of us, including me, take it well and end up seeing only the ‘evil’. Therefore, when Ravindra Jadeja...
View ArticleRohit Sharma: The art of scoring runs with laziness and effortlessness
Rohit Sharma is in supreme batting form and living in a dream life in 2019 World Cup. So far he has scored five 100s in a single edition of a World Cup and it is...
View ArticleIndia Bow Out: Fall short in close chase due to brittle middle order
Team India fell at the penultimate hurdle of the ICC Cricket World Cup, as it crashed to an 18-run loss to New Zealand in the semi-final. In what turned out to be a nail-biter, Ravindra...
View ArticleCup that tears the eyes and one’s heart
The ODI world cup is the most prestigious trophy in cricket. It is more prestigious than winning any India-Pakistan series or even the Ashes. It is miles above any T20 world cup or even the...
View ArticleDramatic Finish: Cricket World Cup 2019 signs off with a cliffhanger
It was perhaps the wildest of cricket ODI World Cup finals. And in the end, literally, nothing could separate England and New Zealand. In a first for this stage, scores were level at the end...
View ArticleEngland’s World Cup Glory: Yes, it wouldn’t have been possible without migrants
In what was an absolute humdinger of a cricket World Cup final, England finally lifted the coveted trophy and became the new ODI champions. Commiserations to runners-up New Zealand who played hard and...
View ArticleWimbledon & World Cricket Cup: Grace in the face of loss and gain
What does it feel like to lose after putting in your absolute best and keeping back nothing? And yes…what does such an epic victory feel like? I am not really a sports enthusiast. But I...
View ArticleNude dudes, streak freaks, and other proponents of full disclosure: Undress...
Critically acclaimed both for its comedic content as well as its explicit equal opportunity message that the cabaret act known as the striptease need not exclusively be a female preserve, but have a...
View ArticleAhmedabad T20 debacle shows need for fresh thinking and new captain ahead of...
That the Royal Challengers Bangalore have never won an IPL indicates that Virat Kohli is not the best captain in the shortest format of the game. Again, with the resumption of full-time cricket, there...
View ArticleQuentin de Kock and why taking a knee should not be mandatory at the T20...
Taking a knee by kneeling on the ground is a gesture of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and something which national teams from different countries have been voluntarily doing at...
View ArticleFiery violence after France trounced Morocco wasn’t random hooliganism but an...
Football, was once with some consideration, described as “socialism without the politics.” The phrase was said to have been minted from behind the once impregnable Iron Curtain by Polish writer...
View ArticleWhat’s in a rah-rah name?
“Rachin… Rachin…” the crowd chants at Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy stadium, the ring and rhyme echoing the cries for India’s batting legend Sachin. They are cheering for New Zealand’s rising star who is a...
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