Reverse Swing | Suresh Menon
Watching Rahul Dravid play the forward defensive stroke in an IPL match was as incongruous as it was thrilling. It was like sighting a sparrow in our cities. Surprise gives way to nostalgia. Dravid is yet to make a century...
0 CommentsThere is something unreal about cricket in England right now. The visitors, West Indies, might go into the first Test without having had a full day's game of cricket in the build-up, thanks to the weather. A grandson of the...
4 CommentsSachin Tendulkar needs to have a serious chat with his handlers. Like a prize horse, he is being groomed and taken around stud farms as a plaything of the cynical in sport, marketing and now Parliament. Sadly, he continues to...
9 CommentsChris Gayle's odyssey in recent years - as a hired gunman or a professional sportsman depending on your point of view - has been interesting. Whatever the merits of his skirmish with the West Indies Cricket Board, it has freed...
4 CommentsOld cricketers never die, they simply lose their appeal. I think the original cliché might have been about lawyers, but the shoe fits. What do sportsmen do after retirement? There are three obvious routes: coaching, media and franchising out the...
2 CommentsIn a year when the national team has performed badly in England and Australia, when the Indian team seems to have lost something in transition, the scandal-hit IPL will have to woo sponsors and the public with greater sensitivity. This,...
6 CommentsSachin Tendulkar is a cottage industry - perhaps I am understating it, he is a full-fledged industry - with many careers and various professionals and hundreds of families dependent on him for their livelihood. If he retires tomorrow, thousands would...
28 CommentsGreat players are, by nature, selfish (the reverse is not necessarily true). They have to be. Richard Dawkins did not extend his theory of the selfish gene to include sportsmen and their approach to sport, but greats, from WG Grace...
8 CommentsRahul Dravid has not merely hang up his boots; a special type of player has returned with him to the pavilion, perhaps never to be seen again. Dravid believed that the best sportsmen were incomplete if they did not conduct...
1 Comments"Who will tell Sachin?" is the new national obsession and it is amusing. Less than a year ago, the same nation was willing 'Sachin plus 10', as the Indian team was known in some circles, to win the World Cup....
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