Mohammed Azharuddin and I grew up in the same locality – his home was but a minute’s walk away from mine – and went to the same school where he was my younger brother’s classmate. And our careers – his as a cricketer and mine as a sports journalist – took off around the...
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Two close contests in the T20 format and two successive defeats for Team India at the start of its tour of New Zealand. Yet, unlike many others, I don’t believe the team’s morale will have taken a body blow as it heads into the five match one-day international series against the Black Caps. Of...
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There is simple, yet chilling, message that the first T20 international at Christchurh held out for the ‘Rock Stars from India’: spend time at the middle, getting used to the pace and bounce before you launch into ambitious strokes. Indeed, as Team India went down by seven wickets to New Zealand, it became clear...
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Cricket administrators are doing what they are known to do best – drag their feet – instead of giving Pakistan fast bowler Mohammed Asif the two year ban for testing positive for banned substance, Nandrolone, during the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) last year. It is most disappointing that the International...
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India does not play in New Zealand often and a lot of fans are basing their worries on the disastrous results from the last trip in 2002-03. But there is reason to believe that the team which is in New Zealand is quite ready to change the trend. It has batsmen who can cope...
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If you have experienced the beauty of golf when playing it, you may like to see it in a slightly different light. And if perchance, you have not already tried your hand at the game, you may like to start now. To be sure, the next time you play a round, observe how close...
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