Pietersen has always been an outsider of sorts and the fringe artist was best on display when he was taking on some establishment or the other

History shows us that those who rule the game seem to occupy a centre they cannot bear to share with those at the margins

Over the years, Pakistan have time and again shown they possess the cricketing oomph to hunt down a fourth-innings target

Like with most achievers, their work is collaborative in a sense, borrowing from the efforts of others

Why do some bowlers feel the need to jeer the dismissed batsman as he walks off?

To ascribe a dismissal resulting from a catch down leg side to bad luck is to confuse the workings of fortune with a poorly executed shot

India's World Cup victory in 1983 prompted some unforgettable banter between their manager and a magazine editor

An all-nighter for cricket is not unknown to most serious fans, and sometimes they can be flaunted as badges of honour

The format's leisurely pace allows you to monitor the proceedings while going about your daily routine

Just when an Indian who moved to the US felt his connection with cricket grow weaker, a 16-year-old batting prodigy made everything all right

Close friendships with everyone on a team are never likely, no matter what the fans may think. More so in a top-flight team

Can we imagine players to be just wage workers who, like the rest of us, have day-to-day issues with their colleagues and employers?

Perhaps fighting the BCCI is a losing battle but if there was one player who could have thrown sand in the wheels of their juggernaut, it was Tendulkar

Australia v South Africa was so enticing that one spectator played hooky to be at the first day of the 2001 Test

Thousands of Indian cricketers aspire to play for their college. Many promising ones slip through the cracks

Other strokes may be more elegant, but there's nothing to quite match the elemental thrill of the hook

Bilaterals tacked on to the end of a Test series, or hastily arranged triangulars, could gather meaning if teams had something bigger to fight for. But will cricket's major teams ever agree to such a proposition?

Cricket fiction has not really floated my boat. Who needs made-up heroes when the real-life ones are so wonderful?

To a boy growing up in India, West Indies' 1973 tour of England came alive years later through a cricket annual

Two college professors, of politics and philosophy, in two continents, connect through their common love of cricket