Opinion - Mukul Kesavan - Cricinfo magazine

Hey Virat, you're the captain of the Indian cricket team, not Captain India

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Virat Kohli's trolling of a fan for preferring foreign batsmen to Indian ones comes from a place of thin-skinned privilege that's out of touch with reality

The madness of Yuvraj Singh

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Like against Pakistan last week, when he walks out onto the biggest stage, his eyes shine with a certain insanity

Why is Pujara given short shrift?

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

He averages better than Rohit Sharma but still has to fight for a place in the Test side, mostly because he doesn't play ODIs

Why the Ashes is watchable and Indian cricket isn't

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

There is nothing stimulating in watching a television broadcast in which the players and commentators allow themselves to be remote-controlled by the BCCI

The emirate of Indian cricket and its subjects

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

What sort of cricketing culture sees conflict of interest as normal? The answer lies in the history of cricket administration in India

An Indian original

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

As captain, MS Dhoni was wholly himself, unflappable, and a desi to boot

We need to think about the role of the bouncer

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

To consider banning it in the wake of Phillip Hughes' death may be knee-jerk, but to refuse to consider the pros and cons of a ban is unwise

Shades of Gavaskar

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

There's an implacable soundness about Cheteshwar Pujara, the best young batsman in the Test-playing world

A farewell left too late

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Tendulkar's legacy has been diminished by his long twilight, and the team he served for so long with such distinction has been damaged too

Why laissez faire won't do for Test cricket

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

For the five-day game to survive, we need a BCCI that harnesses the market and tempers its profit-maximising logic to create a stable environment for the format

How not to close a great career

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Sachin Tendulkar's media blitz in the wake of his 100th hundred has been unseemly and cheapens his legacy

Why the 100th doesn't matter

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

An "international hundred" is an artificial landmark and we don't need to be flying into a frenzy because Tendulkar is on the brink of a hundred of those

Cricket's modern Zen master

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

It is tempting to see Virender Sehwag as a product of the limited-overs age, but he uses more or less orthodox strokes. The key to his success is that he has the ability to live in the present

Haunted by virtue

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

A drug-testing regime as invasive as WADA's needs to be vigorously debated, and thanks to the opposition from India's cricketers maybe it will now be

Lessons from Lahore

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The notion of cricketers being immune to attacks was a myth that should never have been put to the test

Easy lies the head

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Dhoni is different from other India captains, principally in the poise and calm he brings to the role

The last tour

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Why the Australia series marks the end of India's great middle order, and even, possibly, of the primacy of Test cricket

Spin kills

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Never before Mendis has a spinner dominated Indian batsmen so comprehensively and collectively

The politics of morality

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

The West's hypocrisy over Zimbabwe may feel obnoxious, but the BCCI has to decide whether it wishes to be the patron-in-chief of a dysfunctional and compromised cricket body

V for Vendetta

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT

Try as it may, it will take the BCCI some effort to make people believe legends like Kapil Dev didn't exist