Matches (16)

SA20 (2)

WPL (2)

U19 WC Warm-up (2)

BPL (2)

BBL (2)

Vijay Hazare Trophy (4)

Super Smash (2)

185/6

MICT

(20 ov, T:186) 132/7

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Schedule Table Report Series

UPW-W

143/5

RCB-W

(12.1/20 ov, T:144) 145/1

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Schedule Table Report Series

Sankaran Krishna

A team that could beat the best of Bombay

An all-time Karnataka XI, featuring one current batsman and several legends of Indian cricket

11-Mar-2017•Sankaran Krishna

When you're neutral (calm) v when you're partisan (crazy)

How we watch and respond to cricket differently depending on who's playing

30-Jan-2017•Sankaran Krishna

The best of the Bombay boys

Which players would make it to an all-time XI of the powerhouse Indian domestic side?

04-Jan-2017•Sankaran Krishna

In praise of two batsmen who chose to be dour

Chetan Chauhan and Yashpal Sharma had shots in their repertoire but put them away to play it safe for the sake of the team

25-Nov-2016•Sankaran Krishna

R Prabhakar, the obscure cricketer imprinted on my mind

Forty years ago, the Buchi Babu tournament was a crowd-puller in Chennai

22-Oct-2016•Sankaran Krishna

Heroes and mobs: my first live match

A nine-year-old's initiation into big-time cricket, featuring Prasanna, Lawry, Gleeson and a boisterous Bangalore crowd

25-Sep-2016•Sankaran Krishna

The jack of all sports

How is it that the kids who are the best at one sport are invariably also good at others?

19-Aug-2016•Sankaran Krishna

Were the '70s really a golden era for India?

Apart from the famous wins in West Indies and England, India spent the decade doing a fair bit of losing

08-Jul-2016•Sankaran Krishna

When sixes were rare

In decades past, when a batsman cleared the boundary in a Test match, it was quite the event

24-May-2016•Sankaran Krishna

Feasting, grooving, dancing at Chepauk

In the '70s, home-cooked South Indian lunches and Hindi film music contributed to the experience of a Test match day in Madras

24-Apr-2016•Sankaran Krishna

The Sri Lanka I grew up on

They were a competitive side in the '70s, but it's a pity that not all of their finest players of that era got to play Test cricket

26-Mar-2016•Sankaran Krishna

When is a poor decision a masterstroke?

In sport, luck plays a big role in determining whether a tactical move on the field will pay off or not

26-Feb-2016•Sankaran Krishna

What comebacks tell us about cricket cultures

A look at three returns to the top flight from the 1970s

19-Jan-2016•Sankaran Krishna

Three proposals to enliven Test cricket

There's only one way the five-day game ought to go, and that's in the opposite direction of what we saw in the Delhi Test

22-Dec-2015•Sankaran Krishna

The kinaesthetic beauty of timing

When batsmen transfer their body weight and movement precisely into the point of contact between bat and ball, the results can be glorious

28-Nov-2015•Sankaran Krishna

A fast bowler India might have had

Pandurang Salgaoncar silenced a Chepauk crowd by dismissing the likes of Viswanath and Pataudi cheaply in a Duleep game in 1972-73. Strangely it didn't get him an India cap

23-Oct-2015•Sankaran Krishna

India's aggression leaves a bad taste in the mouth

And it isn't going to make them a better team, especially abroad

26-Sep-2015•Sankaran Krishna

Hit and giggle

Some lesser-known (and possibly apocryphal) cricket anecdotes

20-Aug-2015•Sankaran Krishna

An India-Pakistan team to beat the world

Which players from the from the late-'70s and early-'80s line-ups of the two countries, would make it into a combined XI to beat the world? Here's one team

18-Jul-2015•Sankaran Krishna

Where Walter Mitty meets Bharath Reddy

An alternative end to the 1979 Oval Test, featuring a wicketkeeper from Madras in the lead role

29-May-2015•Sankaran Krishna

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