Remembering Sachin Tendulkar’s iconic Ranji Trophy debut
I had joined the Times of India in Mumbai in October 1988 and was struggling to find my young feet in the Old Lady of Boribunder. Having returned from...
Cricket, My Father And Other Heroes
In a corner at home that I choose to call my private “cricket space’, there are pictures of my teenage heroes like Sir Viv Richards and Greg Chappell. There...
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is still not out
On his first foreign tour as an India A player to Kenya and Zimbabwe in July 2004, Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s roommate was the Delhi and India opening batsman Aakash...
Cricket is about merit not dynasty
This is a problem in all our political parties. Akhilesh Yadav is a dynast. Stalin is a dynast… Even Abhishek Bachchan is a dynast… so are the Ambanis… Don’t...
Cricket’s chak de moment
In the early 1980s, Diana Eduljee, who was then the Indian women’s cricket team star bowler, would bowl at the Cricket Club of India nets in Mumbai. “Whatever you...