Samir Chopra

A personal view of a cultural passion

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India celebrate the wicket of Ben Stokes

Just win overseas, India

Why the team's fans have developed an appetite for the kind of results their team has historically been unable to deliver

Ian Chappell hooks Tony Greig

It's better from behind the stumps

It used to be routine in the old days but is confined to replays now. The absence negatively affects our experience as viewers of sport on TV

Fans enjoy the opening weekend of the T20 Blast

The renewability of cricket

We as players and spectators have a great deal to do with the perceived complexity of the game, simply because we change over time

A plane adds to the picturesque settings at Queenstown

Life outside the cricket stadium

Most fans are familiar with far-flung corners of the globe but often we don't know much about those places apart from the fact that they are cricketing venues