Ranjib Biswal , the current Indian team manager, has had a long involvement with cricket

Cricketers have long been unhappy with things written about them in the papers

  The Rangiri Dambulla Stadium is a lovely setting to watch cricket

India Today , one of the country's leading newsmagazines, has a cover story that looks at the IPL money machine, whether it can be sustained and what plans Modi has for the future

 

In Open magazine, Akshay Sawai profiles lawyer Rahul Mehra, the man who forced the powerful BCCI to become more transparent and who has now filed a public interest litigation against almost all major sporting bodies in India, demanding that they

Manu Joseph analyses in Open magazine how the opinion of Indian men on Sachin Tendulkar reveals more about them than about the cricketer

Matthew Syed is having a hard time keeping up as sports evolve at a dizzying pace - the many rule tweaks in Formula 1, the switch-hits and scoops of Twenty20, the changes in the badminton scoring system

The touchstone of a great Test batsman has generally been an average of 50; there are fewer than four dozen players in that elite group

Graeme Smith's side completed their summer of dominance with an innings victory over Pakistan

Kyle Abbott grabbed the chance in the most spectacular manner, ripping through the Pakistan line-up to end with 7 for 29

Pakistan's raw attack dealt with the loss of Umar Gul and Junaid Khan well till tea, before fading in the final session

ESPNcricinfo previews the first Test between India and Australia, in Chennai

Pakistan lost 6 for 22 to hand the initiative to South Africa on the fourth day

CM Gautam has just had the best Ranji season ever for a gloveman with the bat, and while his keeping needs a few finishing touches, he doesn't think a national call-up is beyond him

Robin Peterson hadn't been able to stem the runs when Pakistan were batting, but on the third day it was Pakistan who couldn't stop the runs when Peterson was batting

The Cape Town pitch was expected to make Saeed Ajmal a central figure towards the end of the Test but he made a massive impact on the second day itself

Younis Khan and Asad Shafiq put on Pakistan's biggest partnership in South Africa to even up the match on the first day

The IPL 2013 auction was supposed to be a relatively quiet one where settled franchises looked to fill in a couple of holes in their squads but, as is the case every year, it had plenty of surprises

Ajit Agarkar and Wasim Jaffer did not have the best performances in 2011-12. They bounced back this season to form the cornerstones of Mumbai's 40th Ranji title