Mukul Kesavan

World Cup wish list - 1

Here’s my batting card for the World Cup: Tendulkar and Ganguly to open, Yuvraj, Dravid, Sehwag, Karthik and Dhoni to follow

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan

Is the Indian finger spinner obsolete?

In the first seven years of this new century India has produced a queue of fast-medium workhorses…but not one distinguished spinner.

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan

Let's keep Test cricket white

Test cricket is lovely because it happens in whites

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan

The strange death of Indian cricket

Yesterday my son, who is fifteen, said: “ Last year we had a great team.” I was about to set him right, to say that it was nearly three years ago, in 2004, that we’d had something approaching a great team when Ganguly’s Goers had nearly beaten

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan

A blog for cricket tragics

This is a fan's eye blog

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan

Why laissez faire won't do for Test cricket

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

24-Jun-2012•Mukul Kesavan

How not to close a great career

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

08-Apr-2012•Mukul Kesavan

Stylish in the trenches

Rahul Dravid's singular achievement was in employing defensive batting to winning ends

10-Mar-2012•Mukul Kesavan

Why the 100th doesn't matter

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

03-Dec-2011•Mukul Kesavan

A republican prince

Pataudi was a legend when he started. His pedigree, flair, and epic disregard for his handicap, spoke to the anxieties and aspirations of a young India and to its hunger for heroes

23-Sep-2011•Mukul Kesavan

Cricket's modern Zen master

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

08-Nov-2010•Mukul Kesavan

A princely state

Pataudi brought to Indian cricket a dash of hauteur and a touch of heroism

21-Aug-2010•Mukul Kesavan

What was Cricket Australia thinking?

How did anyone ever think Howard's nomination would fly? If this was a way for CA to rein in the BCCI, it was ill-conceived

06-Jul-2010•Mukul Kesavan

The small enforcer

It is a strangely conflicted mixture of rigorous self-denial and cathartic violence that make up Tendulkar's craft

14-Nov-2009•Mukul Kesavan

Haunted by virtue

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

10-Aug-2009•Mukul Kesavan

Lessons from Lahore

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

05-Mar-2009

Easy lies the head

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

28-Oct-2008

The last tour

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

25-Sep-2008

Spin kills

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

22-Aug-2008•Mukul Kesavan

The politics of morality

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

03-Jul-2008

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