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Players divided over referral system (15 August 12:03) |
| V. Balaji
The curiosity that surrounded the umpire referral system at the start of the Test series was to be expected. The scheme came into being without much warning. It took a longer time... |
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Pietersen gets into the hot seat (07 August 11:07) |
| R. Mohan
What is it about captaincy that provokes virtually irrational behaviour on the part of cricketers? On the one hand, they all die to be captain, but once they have had a taste of th... |
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Master tactician is back (31 July 10:37) |
| Sunit Kaul
Things moved swi-ftly on Tuesday night. The results were officially out at 1.30 am, but the celebrations had effectively kicked off much before. Jagmohan Dalmiya’s supporters, ... |
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Book cooks up cricket biryani (24 July 10:27) |
| R. Mohan
P.R. Man Singh’s book on the history of Hyderabad cricket is an unusual effort. It is not in the strict sense a formal history of the kind usually penned by writers. This book is... |
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Past forward: When India had its moment in the sun (03 July 09:55) |
| R. Mohan
As retrospectives go, this one was a topper. Indian cricket has had its moments in the sun, many of which have been celebrated with gusto.
The 1983 World Cup win remains so specia... |
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June 25, 1983: The day India changed history (19 June 10:39) |
| R. Mohan
They were so snooty at Lord’s in those days. It was a different world then. There was a luncheon invitation for me with the MCC official who also gave me my media pass — a meda... |
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Champions League: The biggest showdown (12 June 11:31) |
| R. Mohan
Not for nothing will the first Champions League come to be known as the biggest showdown in cricket. It will be one of the biggest paydays in the game for the teams that play in th... |
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‘It was a miracle when I reached the top’ (12 June 11:30) |
| Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
Kalpana Dash, India’s second woman mountaineer after Bachendri Pal to successfully reach the Everest Peak, says a miracle happened when she hoisted the tricolour and t... |
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Best and worst of Indian Premier League (05 June 10:51) |
| R. Mohan
The Indian Premier League had a dream finish that Hollywood scriptwriters may not have dared put in their scenarios. Form a start in Bengaluru to a spectacular show to a finish ser... |
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Long weekend for couch potatoes (29 May 10:50) |
| R. Mohan
The country’s richest man combined with the world’s richest cricketer to form a cricket team. Even so, the Mumbai Indians do not find themselves in the IPL semi-finals. This ju... |
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There’s something about Warne (15 May 10:18) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
Who writes the scripts for these guys? The question crops up quite frequently when these larger than life characters take a hand in shaping events. And there is none bigg... |
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Exodus of Aussies, Kiwis to affect IPL (01 May 10:50) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
In May, IPL teams may hardly resemble those that played in the last two weeks of April. The exodus of the Australians, West Indians and New Zealanders, to do national dut... |
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Shining IPL lights will change game forever (17 April 10:57) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
The shining lights of the Indian Premier league will cast their brightness far beyond Indian shores. No sooner than the luminescence hits Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday an... |
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Showboat Shoaib’s nonstop soap opera (10 April 09:58) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
Showboat Shoaib" is Pakistan cricket’s longest running soap opera. Would cricket be the same without him? As cricket’s serial offender, he has reserved a unique ... |
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Sehwag comes back, and spectacularly (03 April 10:33) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
It took him only two Test innings to transform from a batsman riddled with self-doubt to an opener with a legitimate claim to be one of the country's all-time greats. And... |
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Chennai history must not escape SA openers (27 March 10:57) |
| Cricket | Rajan Bala
My preoccupation with history is at times looked upon as unnecessary and, probably, even a measure of one-upmanship. Not that it has ever concerned me in the least. One... |
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Another golden moment in India’s one-day arena (13 March 10:28) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
As wins go for Team India, the most recent one at the Gabba ranks right up there with the very best. The World Cup win of 1983 will doubtless top any list. A close second... |
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Heady days for Indian cricket (06 March 11:26) |
| Focus | Rahul Banerji
These are heady days for Indian cricket. Two days after the Under-19 team won the Junior World Cup for the second time since 2000, the seniors created a little bit of ... |
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IPL riches will lure the English too (21 February 10:43) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
The Indian Premier League will usher in a revolution. The cricket world is not universally happy because the professional league will only further empower Indian cricket ... |
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Cricket a whimsical goddess of fortune (14 February 10:35) |
| Focus | R. Mohan
The game of cricket has often been likened to a whimsical mistress, enticing men on to a glamorous path to fame and fortune one minute and spurning them the next. While suc... |
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Golden oldies must give way to younger men in white coats (07 February 10:59) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
They were blacklisted for wrecking the World Cup final. Much like a bad penny, the usual suspects keep bobbing up. And they are at it again but the case list has got so b... |
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Triangular contest big challenge for Asians (31 January 10:55) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
All the intrigue surrounding Bhajjigate has been left behind in Adelaide. The cricket is set to resume without the albatross of racism charges hanging round the neck of a... |
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Ganguly at centre of another storm (24 January 11:11) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
Sourav Chandi Ganguly. Now, that’s a name that divides Indian cricket and ironically so since he was the captain who is said to have united Team India by picking player... |
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Daunting challenges in a storybook setting (24 January 11:11) |
| Davos Diary | Siraj Wahab
Davos, Switzerland: It was raining in Jeddah when we left for Davos. What started as a drizzle turned into a downpour as we arrived through crippling traffic.
By ... |
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Game must piece together its credibility (17 January 11:20) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
Cricket lurched back to normality pretty quickly. The atmosphere at a WACA was decidedly friendlier even if all the banter was not cut out, but if that happened the game ... |
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A year of incredible highs, impossible lows (23 December 10:58) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
It was a year of incredible highs and impossible lows. It was the year of the Gen Next, of the funky new heroes of Indian cricket. It was also the year of the older gener... |
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Team India go Down Under with new hope (13 December 11:32) |
| R. Mohan
To touring teams the island-continent-nation represents the toughest terrain on the cricket planet. First, they go up against the best team in the world, Australia. Second, the med... |
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Praise the Kandyman, for you can’t bury him (08 December 12:14) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
No spin bowler has polarised opinion within the sport like Muttiah Muralitharan.
He is hailed as a genius with claims to be the best ever spin bowler in the history of c... |
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Yuvraj to rest unless team’s vaunted batting order fails (22 November 10:03) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
India’s high-octane batsman Yuvraj Singh was not in the playing XI on Thursday when the India-Pakistan Test series began at the Kotla. He may even be warming the benche... |
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Good, bad relations on and off the cricket field (15 November 09:44) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
The General won't be at the cricket. He has more pressing things to attend to at home. Whenever Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf came to the cricket, he created a... |
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Smiling Assassin is in the hot seat (11 November 03:01) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
At the bowling crease, he is known as the "Smiling Assassin." In the hot seat, that is a very funny appellation to carry, although there is no reason to suspect... |
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Murali Kartik made the ball talk against Aussies (18 October 09:30) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
There is a saying in the game that cricketers do not retire; they go to the commentary box.
Murali Kartik is one of those who has undertaken the journey in the reverse d... |
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Of cricketers and politicians in Pak (04 October 09:44) |
| Preview | S. Khalid Husain
Pakistanis finally have something to cheer about: their "new look" cricket team. It won against top-notch teams in the T20 tournament in South Africa an... |
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Players are emblem of brave new India (29 September 09:17) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
The Indian cricketer of today is a creature of the age. He is far removed from the stereotypical goodie-goodie type who is so well mannered he couldn't say boo to an oppo... |
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Glittering gem in array of big hitters (20 September 11:38) |
| R. Mohan
The brazen display of big hitting on African evenings in the Twenty20 world championships is being further encouraged by an instrument that measures the biggest hits, converting th... |
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Cricket takes bold step ahead with Twenty20 (13 September 10:57) |
| R. Mohan
In the age of mobile phones, PDAs and the instant communications they enable, cricket too had to move forward to keep up with the times. Cricket took that bold step forward into th... |
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Players will now get money for their value (23 August 10:50) |
| V. Balaji
When Subash Chandra of the Zee media group unveiled plans for an Indian Cricket League, he sent shockwaves coursing through Indian cricket. BCCI officialdom could not but recount ... |
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Premiership makes new waves in India (17 August 11:18) |
| V. Balaji
It came as no surprise that Arsenal’s come from behind win in their EPL opener was discussed with equal intensity in the sub-continent as Rahul Dravid’s decision not to enforc... |
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Sania racquet begins to speak, next stop top 25 (09 August 10:25) |
| Tennis | C. Santhosh Kumar
Sania Mania is the rage again. She is back in vogue as she performs on United States hardcourts, which like her favourite perfume, simply makes her tick. The end ... |
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Oval ball is in Dravid’s court (02 August 09:39) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
Geoffrey Boycott’s old jibe on Team India — "Like wine, they don’t travel well" — is passé. The poor traveller tag does not apply anymore to a team tha... |
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Kapil should go easy on Tendulkar (27 July 10:50) |
| R. Mohan
In saying that Sachin Tenudlkar is not delivering under pressure and picking on the Lord’s Test as an example, Kapil Dev might only be putting the Little Master under greater pre... |
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Skippers fail more often than they succeed (12 July 10:54) |
| R. Mohan
Former captains Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar are in the news as much as they were in their heyday on the field. They were so emblematic of Team India’s aspirations to match the b... |
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CRY uses cricket to raise funds (05 July 10:50) |
| Sarju Kaul
London: Cricket for children? Yes, but it’s a cricket tournament involving 16 top corporate firms from IT and finance sectors that will raise funds for children.
The UK branch... |
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Sharad Pawar is no power monger (28 June 08:46) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
The two top players who were angling for the president’s post in the ICC have come to an agreement that might serve the interests of the game well. England’s David Mo... |
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An old medicine to cure new ailment (15 June 12:11) |
| Cricket | Sunit Kaul
New Delhi: You’ve got to hand it to the BCCI. Just when you think it has exhausted ways of creating controversies, it comes up with a unique approach — an "old... |
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Sharad Pawar may win ICC power game (31 May 11:20) |
| Focus | R. Mohan
It would surprise no one if the announcement comes sometime this month that Sharad Pawar has been voted in as the president of the International Cricket Council. So riven i... |
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In a league of its own: A new era beckons (24 May 09:46) |
| Ajit Vijaykumar
Top-hand grip or bottom-hand grip? Front-on stance or side-on stance? Yorker or slower one? BCCI or ICL? Decisions. Decisions.
A cricketer battles with complicated question... |
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What the form book reveals (02 March 01:12) |
| R. Mohan
In Australia’s southern summer of domination, embellished by an Ashes whitewash, the feeling that Ponting’s men are invincible may have grown somewhat until they came crashing ... |
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Word is out: Aussies are not Invincible (23 February 02:47) |
| R. Mohan
The cricket world stumbled upon a secret in the month of February. The word is now out that Australia are beatable and, suddenly, the World Cup of March-April wears a most open loo... |
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