Author: Rahul Giri





A generation ago, in Chennai on March 22, Sourav Ganguly’s Indian team registered one of cricket’s greatest wins. The modern-day team observed the anniversary with a shoddy, series-losing performance against Australia. For Indian cricket fans of a certain age, the combination of March 22 and Chennai is a magical one. In fact, you could argue that it’s right up there with memories of any of India’s three World Cup wins. It was in the city on the Coromandel coast 22 years ago that Sourav Ganguly’s team, a year of from the trauma of the match-fixing scandal and less than…





Boria Majumdar With a lot of talk around the forthcoming Major League Cricket in the US and the recently concluded draft, it is pertinent to look back at the origins of the sport in America and also ask the question why cricket lost out to a sport like Baseball? Why Baseball and not cricket in the US? The earliest record of cricket in the Americas was found in the ‘secret diary’ of William Byrd II of Virginia and the date, believe it or not, is 25 April 1709. Subsequent references to cricket date back to Georgia in 1737 and an…





Why do we play elite sport? Money? Fame? Love for the sport? – Boria Majumdar These are questions that are often debated. When you lead a sport for a good decade and more in a country like India, the questions become even more relevant. When you see a domestic player get crores in the IPL, a WPL player get a quarter of a million dollars, do you then think why is it that someone like a Saurav Ghosal who has led Indian Squash for years don’t get anything close to it? Not even a 20th of it!! Does it play…