Book review: Indian Cricket Then and Now

With the sport scaling new heights, a book like Indian Cricket Then and Now is a good reminder that today’s success rests on great shoulder.

Maxwell the golfer was to the fore in incredible Wankhede chase

Glen Maxwell

Glenn Maxwell’s thunderous, unbeaten double-hundred jolted the World Cup into a different orbit despite a host of polished displays from others.

New Zealand were well-prepared for India in WTC finale

New Zealand cricket team

India’s eight-wicket defeat to New Zealand at Southampton in the final of the inaugural World Test Championship on Wednesday was ultimately a surrender.

Pondicherry Diary: It’s all the unbending Pujara effect

Cheteshwar Pujara

The resolve in Cheteshwar Pujara is impossible to miss. There’s a relentlessness in the way he stands at the crease, a sense of purpose.

IPL musings; and two cricketing deaths, 13 years apart

Shubhman Gill

This is turning out to be a humdinger of an Indian Premier League out in the deserts of Araby, the IPL 13.

Golf is quiet for now, but in India there’s always the cricket

Sudeep Tyagi

The T20 matches against New Zealand may have gone down to the wire, but India prevailed each time, and in differing circumstances.