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Watch: Ravichandran Ashwin interview: On his book, an ode to Chennai gully cricket, and why 3 Idiots was a turning point Ravichandran Ashwin has just hit a pull shot and the ball has landed in a temple next door. On the streets of Ramakrishnapuram in Chennai’s West Mambalam, street cricket came alive between four and…
Keeping an eye on a young Kapil Dev, later Sachin Tendulkar or Kumble, Bedi was always invested in cricket. October 25, 2023 12:08 am | Updated 11:58 am IST Spinning a chat: Bedi with Chandrasekhar, Venkatraghavan and Prasanna. | Photo Credit: THE HINDU ARCHIVES To be in the presence of Bishan Singh Bedi is to…
An old cricketing stereotype about India entirely revolved around wristy batters and wily spinners. The willow-wielders with their wide bouquet of aesthetic shots were expected to defy geometry on the turf. The practitioners of the slow-art were supposed to spin a web, luring perplexed batters to their doom. This was essentially about poetry at one…
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If Muthiah Muralidharan didn’t take to the cricket ground, he may have been running a biscuit factory today. But he did; playing the sport from an early age, with dreams of becoming a fast bowler for Sri Lanka. “When I was young, I just wanted to bowl really fast,” Murali tells us, recalling growing up…