Sharda Ugra

Sportswriter

What the India coach saga tells us

Little is clear at the moment - except for the fact that the incoming coach will need to get along with Virat Kohli

11-Jul-2017•Sharda Ugra

'It would have been terrible to walk out knowing people aren't expecting anything from me'

Sachin: A Billion Dreams gives you a peek into the real life of the sporting hero

27-May-2017•Sharda Ugra

How did the players end up being collateral in the BCCI's fight?

This is the question uppermost in fans' minds leading into the board's special general meeting

06-May-2017•Sharda Ugra

The heat is on

Be it cricket, puchkas or mangoes, there are various ways of defining and defying the Indian summer

20-Apr-2017•Sharda Ugra

Mind your manners, it's the IPL

Many antagonists in the India-Australia series are due to play alongside each other next week onwards. Time to be buddies again, then

31-Mar-2017•Sharda Ugra

Taking the high road

The highway from Chandigarh to Delhi is a trip through history and geography. Pickles feature prominently

23-Mar-2017•Sharda Ugra

'No one can take the pride away from us'

Shanta Rangaswamy talks about being a pioneer of the Indian women's game back in the days when it was less than a blip on the radar

08-Mar-2017•Sharda Ugra

More power to Diana Edulji

A pioneer for the cause of Indian women's cricket, she is now the only cricketer, male or female, on the BCCI's interim panel of administrators

08-Feb-2017•Sharda Ugra

How many people does it take to run a cricket association?

The saga of the recent delayed selection meeting raises this important question

11-Jan-2017•Sharda Ugra

Why the red-card proposal is important for grass-roots cricket

Players might soon be sent off the field for bad behaviour - though you probably won't see the punishment being enforced much in international cricket

15-Dec-2016•Sharda Ugra

How India learnt to stop worrying and (sort of) love the DRS

A long-time opponent of the review system, the BCCI has come around to a partial acceptance of it following tests of its efficacy

15-Nov-2016•Sharda Ugra

What's the worst that can happen, BCCI?

We are being told that implementing the Lodha recommendations will mark the downfall of Indian cricket. How true is that?

13-Oct-2016•Sharda Ugra

It's about TV rights, stupid

The latest stand-off between the BCCI and the other major cricket boards is to do with a shift in how broadcast deals could be made in the future

10-Sep-2016•Sharda Ugra

We need to talk about cricket and the Olympics

The question has been raising its head with a certain regularity of late

17-Aug-2016•Sharda Ugra

What next for the BCCI?

Their strategy in dealing with the Lodha panel's recommendations was severely flawed, and the chickens have now come home to roost

19-Jul-2016•Sharda Ugra

A cricket history lesson for millennials

The Wisden India Almanack 2016 spans a cricketing year, several decades, and many ideas

26-Jun-2016•Sharda Ugra

Season of Plenty a watershed for Indian cricket

After several years of relative scarcity of international fixtures in India, the BCCI is attempting to forge a definite home season and has begun on a grand scale

09-Jun-2016•Sharda Ugra

Girls aloud

Or how the IPL is redefining television commentary

02-Jun-2016•Sharda Ugra

Can Manohar push through a reformist agenda?

The new ICC chairman has made all the right noises about calling for a more equitable global game. Now he has a chance to put his words into action

12-May-2016•Sharda Ugra

T20's future is data, or is it?

Whether it's in how the game is written about or how it's played, we're told the numbers are more important than ever before

08-Apr-2016•Sharda Ugra

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