Samir Chopra | Cricket Blogs

JUNE 18, 2013

Returning home to the cricket magazine

Coming back to India from the USA was incomplete without a visit to the local news stand

There's something about a cricket magazine, a glossy repository of treasures © AFP

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JUNE 11, 2013

Patrick Eagar: cricket's visual poet

For fans who grew up before cricket was available ubiquitously through television, the photographer's work holds special meaning

JUNE 06, 2013

Remembering Kallicharran's West Indies

A depleted West Indies lost the series in India in 1978-79 but went home with their heads held high

MAY 28, 2013

What I despise most about fixing

That it distracts me from the real thing and tells me that I am wasting my time, that I'd do better to find other ways to while away the hours

MAY 14, 2013

The misleading aura surrounding Wisden's five

The most anticipated annual award in cricket is just like any other - chosen by people with personal preferences and prejudices

MAY 07, 2013

The internet and cricket: a brave new world to be seized

The game must find a way of showing itself off online, of allowing the fans to access and enjoy it

APRIL 30, 2013

The Kohli-Mumbai spat, and the lure of sports tribalism

Those who run the IPL will hope that ties to a franchise are uppermost on everyone's minds when the tournament is on

APRIL 25, 2013

The sickening thrill of the late collapse

Remembering two electric periods of play when Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding ripped India to shreds

APRIL 15, 2013

The joys of pre-season nets

The time to dust off the winter, warm up creaking bones and get ready for the cricket is always a special one

APRIL 01, 2013

Ryder assault had everything to do with alcohol

Soon after news of Jesse Ryder's terrible injuries made the news, we were assured by the NZCPA and Cricket Wellington that the violent assault on him was 'not an alcohol-related incident.'

MARCH 25, 2013

Four-nil means no more 0-4s?

Samir Chopra investigates the dominant nature of India's 4-0 result over Australia, and how it has bucked the trend of previous results

MARCH 18, 2013

Kim Hughes: Shots out of heaven

Australian cricket should have treated Kim Hughes much, much better and left him alone to do what he did best: play the most dazzling cricket strokes imaginable

MARCH 11, 2013

Indian fans knew little about the internal issues dogging Australia on their 1979 tour but, although they were to succumb over the course of a long, draining series, the likes of Kim Hughes and Allan Border left their mark

MARCH 04, 2013

Postcards to my cricketing homeland

Why do I write about cricket? It is because I'm infected by a deep nostalgia, an incurable homesickness; and sometimes because it seems that to stop writing about cricket would be to acknowledge that one part of my life is over and I can never go 'home'