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Samir Chopra

Reluctant but brave

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

11-Mar-2013•Samir Chopra

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'

04-Mar-2013•Samir Chopra

The body language of fast bowlers: Diversity in unity

I am truly grateful that there exists such marvelous diversity in the same act, providing the cricket fan with many hours of viewing pleasure

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

A look at the Kallis-Sobers debate

The Jacques Kallis versus Garfield Sobers comparison and evaluation is guaranteed to draw sharply contrasting reactions from most cricket fans

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Cricket's look and feel: A mixed bag

One of the curious ironies of modern cricket is that just as our means of the visual inspection of the game, its players and their skills have grown ever more sophisticated

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Tony Greig: Turning cricketers from Patriots into Professionals

Seemingly a giant of a man, literally and figuratively, he was the captain of a team central to the Indian team's understanding of itself in the cricket world

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Two nations better than one?

One recurring fantasy of the Indian cricket fan is to speculate about a combined India-Pakistan team

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

More curiously significant numbers: Birthdays and aids to concentration

I'd like to recount two ways in which I've turned to cricket to see if there was a resonance of interest to me with significant numbers in my life

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Emergence of new markets with T20 leagues

Tristan Lavalette's piece on cricket in Serbia reminded me once again, that cricket is not yet a truly global sport, but it has great potential to become one

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Brave New Pitch: The Evolution of Modern Cricket

The bio on the right hand side of this page has indicated for some time that I have been writing a book on 'the changing face of modern cricket'

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Cricket Sightings: A Sonic Cricket Encounter

The US-based cricket fan reacts with an emotion that is a mix of pleasure, relief, and sometimes, a giddy determination to make the most of it

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Twenty20 in the US: We've seen it before

The US launch of a professional T20 league reminds me of another, more humble US-based T20 competition I took part in some 25 years ago

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Of cricket bats and economic divisions

A cricket field brings together twenty-two players, encapsulating diversity that goes beyond the merely physical: class, religion, language

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Warming to the World Twenty20

When the first ICC World Twenty20 kicked off, I paid little attention

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Candid camera: losing my head

In the last year (ie, the 12th grade) of my high school years, a good friend of mine decided to put together a photographic record of our class' escapades

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Time to close the Rahul-Parnell case

By all accounts, Rahul and Parnell did what a pair of young men might do in a big city once the working day is done

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Mahela and Misbah got it wrong

Mahela Jayawardene is a good batsman and comes across as a thoughtful, astute cricketer in most of his public pronouncements

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Beer and Viv Richards on Pearl Harbor Day

In high school, playing hooky to play or watch cricket was a common pastime

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

The rest day: long gone, and not missed

As a cricket fan of long standing, I have had the chance to assess many changes in the game

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

Players are professionals, not patriots

Kevin Pietersen's retirement from international ODI and Twenty20 cricket and the influence of the IPL on modern cricket

25-Feb-2013•Samir Chopra

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