Rahul Bhattacharya

The bowling was superfast

Batsmen excepted, breathes there a fan with soul so dead who doesn't like it fast and furious?

03-Sep-2014•Rahul Bhattacharya

The other side of Gravy

Antigua's No. 1 cricket fan has hung up his boots officially, but he's still around at the ARG

08-Sep-2013•Rahul Bhattacharya

Love letters

Of two Indian cricketers who found love on tour, romance by post, and left to make a home in countries far away

10-Aug-2013•Rahul Bhattacharya

Filming a fairy tale run

25-Feb-2013•Rahul Bhattacharya

That's a bit more like it

With a little admission about ticket prices and another message to fans to bring in the noise, even the ICC seem to have acknowledged fears expressed beforehand about the tournament, a situation superbly captured by Paul Harris in his Sunday

25-Feb-2013•Rahul Bhattacharya

'The <i>balata</i> sting like rass bai'

‘Old talk’ with an elderly family friend, because Debita Harripersaud is fond of that kind of natter, was the spur to make the product which launched a great Guyanese nostalgia

25-Feb-2013•Rahul Bhattacharya

Hit racism for six

Introduction | Peter English

25-Feb-2013•Rahul Bhattacharya

The match referee and third umpire

Two officials who appeared on the cricket scene as it grew into a high-stakes sport: one to police it, the other to make it more error-free

26-Feb-2011•Rahul Bhattacharya

It all began in South Africa

Indian cricket's most successful era was ushered in at the 2003 World Cup, with some effigy-burning, banana-barfing, and sleepless nights for Tendulkar

08-Feb-2011•Rahul Bhattacharya

South Africa's readmission

Their return to international cricket showed that social change could manifest itself in sport

22-Jan-2011•Rahul Bhattacharya

Here comes the flood

It's set to be a big year for India with Tests in five continents. If only the BCCI and the broadcasters rolled back on the hyper-commercialisation

03-Jan-2011•Rahul Bhattacharya

The decline and fall of Test cricket

Like children do with video games, as spectators we are going numb watching dull, futile matches and are revelling in the tiny bits of quality on display

13-Dec-2010•Rahul Bhattacharya

When cricketers age

Do we have the right to call for their retirements or should we let their dramas play themselves out?

15-Nov-2010•Rahul Bhattacharya

Why cricket can't pardon its sinners

The real world may accept the corrupt, even welcome them, but sport cannot because they break the principle sport hinges on

11-Oct-2010•Rahul Bhattacharya

Video thrills the history fan

The best of cricket's past can now be watched and marvelled at over and over again, thanks to YouTube

30-Aug-2010•Rahul Bhattacharya

Foxes, lizards and other bowlers

Amir is a bee, Asif a snake. What are Malinga and Ishant?

02-Aug-2010•Rahul Bhattacharya

The first World Cup

Four years after the birth of ODIs, the format was given validation by what was perhaps the boldest and most ambitious innovation since the legislation of overarm bowling

10-Jul-2010•Rahul Bhattacharya

Cricket, tennis and the loss of immersion

If you're looking for sport to convey gripping narrative and drama involving human beings under pressure, cricket is probably not the place to look these days

28-Jun-2010•Rahul Bhattacharya

Equality isn't excellence

Despite India's early exit from the World Twenty20 for a second time in a row, the BCCI hasn't grasped the harm the IPL's bloated schedule is doing

31-May-2010•Rahul Bhattacharya

A blueprint for the IPL

Corporate partnership rather than ownership might have delivered a much healthier IPL

26-Apr-2010•Rahul Bhattacharya

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