Jhakas | Sanjay Jha
Only Bhajji (Harbhajan Singh) can fry the Kiwi! To say that one was always aware of the unpredictable, irrational ways of Harbhajan Singh, India's brash, irreverent super-brat would be an understatement. Yet his pugnacious daredevilry, and tempered brilliance at Ahmedabad...
0 CommentsLike a frightened soul apprehending a swift end looking for a desperate escape route for sheer survival, he just disappeared. He was officially declared "missing". Just one day earlier, he had been an international hero. Playing outstanding cricket for his...
1 Comments"To be honest, I still don't know how we , the Deccan Chargers won the damn thing in 2009". -Herschelle Gibbs in his autobiography To The Point Herschelle Gibbs langorously usurped the thunder and lightning from the usually tumultuous, tempestuous...
0 Comments(FACT: The author's first real favorite cricketer was Sunil Manohar Gavaskar). They say a week is a long time in politics. In cricket, it is like eternity. Just about anything unimaginable can happen. Lalit Modi , ex-IPL Commissioner facing a...
1 CommentsDuring the razzmatazz of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony I could not help tweeting that when the tax-haven ( usually misused for ill-gotten wealth) Cayman Islands team did their march-past , I would not have been surprised if former IPL...
1 CommentsIndia is inspiring anger. Lots of inflammatory rage. And worse , of a rather pathological morbid variety. The controversial Commonwealth Games in New Delhi have already had several heads rolling, ironically enough, beginning with some western media correspondents. The attempt...
0 CommentsLaxman is more than just special. But he has never got his dues At the CCI the tall lanky Hyderabadi sat watching a veterans tennis match featuring the ultimate legend, the Swedish Bjorn Borg. Every time Borg played a classic...
2 CommentsLast Saturday, one awoke to another round of spot-fixing allegations, now appearing religiously in regular fortnightly installments. If they promise to sustain the revelations at these intervals, we have the biggest Super Saturday in the making. Sponsors better book your...
1 CommentsWe fight with impeccable ferocity over Kashmir. Our Foreign Ministers squabble amidst international spotlight. We often impertinently reject Pak-born visas, while Islamabad repeatedly snuggles into the cosy arms of our perpetual adversary China. Our Independence Day is celebrated within 24...
0 CommentsIf Test cricket at all needs to be amended, here is a unique proposal for change that is certain to revive public interest. (An extract from my book Eleven - Triumphs, Trials & Turbulence; Indian Cricket 2003-10, which becomes relevant...
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