Cricket – Page 3 – Breaking Views

June 8, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Why India must play Pakistan more, not less

If paanwallahs in north India are a signpost for the election breeze, then taxi-drivers in London are often astute sports forecasters. When my London cabbie turns out to be...

March 28, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Thank god for cricket

There must be a world beyond Yogi Adityanath I keep telling myself. For the last week, television has been in a trance with a politician who we once consciously...

March 28, 2016
TeamRS
Video Blog

The “Virat era” has begun

December 24, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Azad: Hero or Zero?

My cricket memories of Kirti Azad are of him clean bowling Ian Botham with a ball that never left the ground during India’s semi final triumph in the historic...

September 8, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Enemy No. 1

One ball to go, four to get. Millions on either side of the Line of Control glued to their television sets, Ram and Allah being invoked in parallel worlds,...

August 8, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

A son remembers his father

A recent piece on my late father in the Wisden India Almanac was titled Luck by Talent. And that, perhaps, exemplifies Dilip Sardesai’s story.

April 5, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

One-day cricket’s AstroTurf moment

The 2015 World Cup was fast and furious. But was it really cricket as we knew the sport, and will Team India be able to compete in a new...

April 3, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Losing semi-final is not ‘national shame’, farmer suicide is

On the night before India’s World Cup semi-finals with Australia, I innocently tweeted: ‘Heart with India, head with Australia.’ Within minutes, followers on my twitter account were enraged: Not...

November 28, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Game is to hide: Srinivasan symbolic of deeper rot

Prime time news television thrives on the idea of a daily enemy, someone who can be court-martialled every night and then pronounced guilty by the news anchor playing the...

September 23, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Uncategorized

Maha-battle

A Mahabharata is being played out in Maharashtra even before Election Day. For the BJP Shiv Sena alliance, it's all about kaun banega mukhya mantri. The saffron alliance...