If the game's custodians are serious about stamping out fixing and chucking they must empower umpires and encourage respected players to speak out and share information about wrongdoing

Young aspirants in India today have their futures planned to a t by their parents, coaches and academies. Perhaps the old ways were better

It's a story about self-belief, dedication and the ability to chase your dreams

Erapalli Prasanna was a masterful conjurer and perhaps the shrewdest of India's great spin quartet

One of the oldest limited-overs in India used to be a thrilling affair, with Test and club cricketers fiercely competing for the title

Why their traditional strength, spin, ought not to be forskaen in favour of pace

The team has no express fast bowler, so it's time when touring to put faith in two slow bowlers bowling in tandem

Even today - and not just to those of a certain vintage - Garry Sobers remains above every other claimant to the title of cricket's greatest allrounder

For Indian cricket fans of a certain vintage, the Caribbean summer of 1971 was the most glorious of all

Remembering a magician who invariably rose to the occasion when conditions favoured the bowlers, especially the fast men

Too often batsmen get away with playing loose shots behind square on the leg side. Maybe a change in the laws will help

Today's on-field aggro is no better than the worst kind of bullying by schoolboy thugs. It's time to outlaw such conduct

He is among the most successful bowlers of his kind, and excitingly, his best may yet be ahead of him

Suresh Menon's biography on the great Indian left-arm spinner is essential reading for all young tweakers

One can only wonder what might have been had he persisted with his bowling throughout his career

If we don't want limited-overs cricket to turn into one-sided massacres, we need to change some rules and encourage attacking fields

Back in the 1970s and '80s, a certain umpire took it upon himself to rid the game of throwing

The decline of two southern Indian teams may paradoxically have to do with a surfeit of talent, not a lack

There's plenty of discussion on what batsmen ought to do when encountering challenging pitches, but much less for bowlers

Memories, close-in cordons, and tactical prophecies: the joys of Test cricket in England