Samir Chopra

Be careful of what you are wishing for when you ask for a "good, hard, closely-fought game."

They miss out on camaraderie but cop all the tension and aggravation out in the middle

Outside cricket, Indians still knew little about Australia

The fan who plays the game realises something the non-playing fan often does not: it's just a game.

Cricket told me the experienced daily world is sliced up into distinct temporal spheres; nothing else brought this home quite so clearly, not even those ubiquitous rows of clocks at airports, each set to a different city.