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India were in a familiar situation at the Asian Games. Victory was taken for granted, defeat would have counted as a disgrace. This is the fate of top-ranked teams: damned if you do and doubly damned if you don’t. The repercussions would have been greater had India lost to Japan following the infamous ‘wide ball’…
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Indian corporates, which already own teams in T20 franchise leagues of South Africa, UAE, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, West Indies, and USA as well as The Hundred in England appear hesitant to get into Australia and the Big Bash League which has decided to sell stakes in their teams too. This might just be a strategic…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: PTI The BCCI has made a significant change to the playing conditions ahead of the 2026-27 domestic season, and now the bowler will be suspended for the remainder of the match for bowling deliberate front foot no balls or non-landing deliveries. As per the existing rules,…
India’s captain Suryakumar Yadav, head coach Gautam Gambhir and Ramesh Mhamunkar, chief curator of Wankhede Stadium, near the playing surface on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Twenty-four days after launching its Men’s T20 World Cup title defence with a scratchy win over the United States, Suryakumar Yadav’s men returned to the…
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With the passing of Inderjit Singh Bindra, a link with a revolution in cricket that shifted the power base from England to India has been severed. For so long has India’s influence lasted and so profound has its impact been that it’s easy to forget their ascendancy is less than four decades old. In the mid-1980s, N.K.P. Salve, Bindra and Jagmohan Dalmiya proposed that…
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While India and Bangladesh wait to see who will blink first, the International Cricket Council has made it clear that there is no security threat in India. This is Bangladesh’s reason for not wishing to come to India for their World T20 matches commencing next month. It has weakened the former’s case while strengthening the…
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For so long has the Board of Control for Cricket in India been the bully of international cricket, it shouldn’t be a surprise that it is equally the bully of domestic cricket too. By asking the Kolkata Knight Riders to sack Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman after he had been picked for the IPL, the BCCI showed it was more concerned with…
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File picture of Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman celebrating a wicket during a T20I against India | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini For so long has the Board of Control for Cricket in India been the bully of international cricket, it shouldn’t be a surprise that it is equally the bully of domestic cricket too. By asking the…
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How many agencies does it take to destroy Test cricket? If the current Ashes series is indication, it would involve the local administrators, the International Cricket Council, and the players themselves. Not since the 19th century have two Tests in a series ended within two days. The track for the first Test in Perth was adjudged…
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In his much-quoted essay The Sporting Spirit, George Orwell wrote, “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard for rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting.” Over the years, an India-Pakistan cricket match has been characterised…
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