Author: Rahul Giri



-Boria Majumdar Trinidad 1971. Indian cricket’s best hour to many. This Test match not only provided answers to the great Sunil Gavaskar that he belonged there but also to the rest of the world. Gavaskar’s 65 and 67 not out in the first and second innings were indications that India had finally found its successor to Merchant and someone who had the ability to be an all-time great of the game. While it was Sardesai, Gavaskar and Solkar who performed with the bat in Trinidad, Venkataraghavan, Prasanna and Bedi took centre stage with the ball, along with the indomitable Salim…

The night Mumbai Indians played (and lost) their first IPL final, the Lalit Modi era in Indian cricket administration came to an abrupt end. As far as Lalit Modi was concerned he was all flamboyance when he landed in the stadium in his helicopter. The suit and every piece of clothing he wore were perfectly colour coordinated and in place, it was impossible to gauge that here was a man going through the worst crisis of his life. It was literally his genius to be able to keep calm with all the goings on around him and conduct the…



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With his dreams of leading his country shredded by SandpaperGate, David Warner’s leadership skills haven’t been on view for a while. Rishabh Pant’s unfortunate injury has given him an opportunity he thought he might never have again.   It was around 6AM on May 30, 2016, a Monday morning, and David Warner was about to leave the hotel for the airport in Bengaluru. He had a 10 AM flight for New York, where he would finally meet his wife Candice and two daughters, Ivy and Indi, after a month and a half. Soon after he was in the car, he…







By Bharath Ramaraj It wasn’t long ago that India were taking on Australia in the third and final ODI of a three-match series at the Chepauk Stadium. But such is the hectic schedule that it seems as if the cricketing landscape is akin to a train chugging along, non-stop, for 52 weeks a year. For the next couple of months, it would be about 10 Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises competing in the fast-paced T20 format. The 16th edition will be launched with Gujarat Titans, the defending champions, locking horns against Chennai Super Kings, four-time winners, at the…