Men in White

Every time I watch a South Asian player unfamiliar with English struggling with the language during match ceremonies, I want to shake the team manager and the event organisers

What had happened was this: chasing a more than decent total, against respectably fast bowling, without the aid of Tendulkar, Dravid and Dhoni, India creamed Sri Lanka

I think Dravid will be desperate to play Pathan if five of his six main batsmen fire because Pathan playing to seventy five percent of his potential as a bowler would appear to balance the side out

I was driving to work in the morning with the radio commentary on, listening to cricket in Hindi and English alternately

Speaking for myself, I’ve swung between admiration and scepticism

Australia remain favourites for the Cup but the odds on them winning have lengthened and it’s no longer a one horse race

Here’s my batting card for the World Cup: Tendulkar and Ganguly to open, Yuvraj, Dravid, Sehwag, Karthik and Dhoni to follow

In the first seven years of this new century India has produced a queue of fast-medium workhorses…but not one distinguished spinner.

Test cricket is lovely because it happens in whites

Yesterday my son, who is fifteen, said: “ Last year we had a great team.” I was about to set him right, to say that it was nearly three years ago, in 2004, that we’d had something approaching a great team when Ganguly’s Goers had nearly beaten

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