An all-time Karnataka XI, featuring one current batsman and several legends of Indian cricket

How we watch and respond to cricket differently depending on who's playing

Which players would make it to an all-time XI of the powerhouse Indian domestic side?

Chetan Chauhan and Yashpal Sharma had shots in their repertoire but put them away to play it safe for the sake of the team

Forty years ago, the Buchi Babu tournament was a crowd-puller in Chennai

A nine-year-old's initiation into big-time cricket, featuring Prasanna, Lawry, Gleeson and a boisterous Bangalore crowd

How is it that the kids who are the best at one sport are invariably also good at others?

Forty years later we can understand that famous English summer in a more nuanced way

Apart from the famous wins in West Indies and England, India spent the decade doing a fair bit of losing

In decades past, when a batsman cleared the boundary in a Test match, it was quite the event

In the '70s, home-cooked South Indian lunches and Hindi film music contributed to the experience of a Test match day in Madras

They were a competitive side in the '70s, but it's a pity that not all of their finest players of that era got to play Test cricket

Letter from... Honolulu

In sport, luck plays a big role in determining whether a tactical move on the field will pay off or not

A look at three returns to the top flight from the 1970s

There's only one way the five-day game ought to go, and that's in the opposite direction of what we saw in the Delhi Test

When batsmen transfer their body weight and movement precisely into the point of contact between bat and ball, the results can be glorious

Pandurang Salgaoncar silenced a Chepauk crowd by dismissing the likes of Viswanath and Pataudi cheaply in a Duleep game in 1972-73. Strangely it didn't get him an India cap

And it isn't going to make them a better team, especially abroad

Some lesser-known (and possibly apocryphal) cricket anecdotes