Samir Chopra

Even though today's batting and bowling records are more unbreakable than they have ever been, the corresponding feeling of awe is missing

Why do once-great players insist on tarnishing our image of them by going into the commentary box?

From 1978 to 1983, the World Cricket Digest, published out of Sydney, offered fans of cricket and cricket writing an invaluable service

As Pakistan and West Indies played out a classic series in 1976-77, a schoolboy in India tracked the scores

Watching people sustain impact injuries on a cricket field can be a haunting experience

We're privileged to be living at a time when there is such a wealth of cricket writing online

Coming back to India from the USA was incomplete without a visit to the local news stand

For fans who grew up before cricket was available ubiquitously through television, the photographer's work holds special meaning

A depleted West Indies lost the series in India in 1978-79 but went home with their heads held high

That it distracts me from the real thing and tells me that I am wasting my time, that I'd do better to find other ways to while away the hours

The most anticipated annual award in cricket is just like any other - chosen by people with personal preferences and prejudices

The game must find a way of showing itself off online, of allowing the fans to access and enjoy it

Those who run the IPL will hope that ties to a franchise are uppermost on everyone's minds when the tournament is on

Remembering two electric periods of play when Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding ripped India to shreds

The time to dust off the winter, warm up creaking bones and get ready for the cricket is always a special one

Soon after news of Jesse Ryder's terrible injuries made the news, we were assured by the NZCPA and Cricket Wellington that the violent assault on him was 'not an alcohol-related incident.'

Samir Chopra investigates the dominant nature of India's 4-0 result over Australia, and how it has bucked the trend of previous results

Australian cricket should have treated Kim Hughes much, much better and left him alone to do what he did best: play the most dazzling cricket strokes imaginable

Indian fans knew little about the internal issues dogging Australia on their 1979 tour but, although they were to succumb over the course of a long, draining series, the likes of Kim Hughes and Allan Border left their mark

Why do I write about cricket? It is because I'm infected by a deep nostalgia, an incurable homesickness; and sometimes because it seems that to stop writing about cricket would be to acknowledge that one part of my life is over and I can never go 'home'