Ramachandra Guha

Unlike Mandela, the Indian revolutionary disregarded not just cricket but sport in general all his life

How I went from revelling in batting fantasies in my youth to being comforted by bowling reveries in later years

From Mendis to Sangakkara, a look at a few iconic batsmen who shaped Sri Lanka's cricket

In all the talk of Bombay's credentials as a historical stronghold of Indian cricket, a region to the north gets overlooked

The IPL is representative of the worst sides of Indian capitalism and Indian society

Like the other great Bombay batsmen of the past, he should time his exit right. It can't get better than ending with a series against Australia

Now that his best is likely behind him, let us look back on some Sehwag classics

The historically minded will love it if the captains of the first Indo-Pak contests were to be honoured so, but what about younger, more modern fans?

How about naming it after a man who has defined the cricket played between the two sides?

One man stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to nominating cricket's most valuable current player

In which the writer doffs his hat to some great Indian fielders he has watched

For what Sachin Tendulkar has given me over the years, I remain deeply, profoundly, grateful. Those calling for his retirement should be too

Mumbai has produced more great batsmen than any other city in the world. You could argue which one was the best bat, but there's no debate about the best man

Why have these two stalwarts of Indian cricket never spoken out about the damage the IPL has done to the country's Test team?