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I’m a Cricket White-winger
The charm of Test cricket lies in its esoteric nature. It’s an oddity that alienates novices while delighting seasoned viewers.
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Happy Birthday, Rahul Dravid! Life Lessons from “The Wall”
Rahul Dravid’s simplicity, dedication, and honesty is cause for celebration in a sporting universe that is moving away from those simple ideals.
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Make Sachin Patriotic Again
How do we get MP Sachin Tendulkar to attend Parliament like he did today? Maybe get some netas to go “Sachinnnn, Sachin! Saachinnnn, Sachin!” instead of disrupting his speech.
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Miracle at Eden: The Innings that Healed Indian Cricket
From March 11 to March 15, 2001, the greatest Test match ever to be played took place at Eden Gardens, where India beat Australia. The victory heralded a new beginning for Indian cricket, built on the back of self-belief, determination, and honour that had gone missing after the match-fixing scandal.
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Ajinkya Rahane: Cricket’s Common Man
When Ajinkya Rahane walks to the pitch, he’s focused. He’s there to do his job and he does it damn well. He’s the best employee of the Indian team.
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Rahul Dravid: The Man Who Would Never Be King
If Indian cricket was a fancy omelette stuffed with mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, Parma ham, and cheese, Rahul Dravid would choose to be the salt.
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The Disciple Review: A Rare Story about A Devoted Failure
Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple, now out on Netflix, is set in the world of Hindustani classical music. The setting is incidental. It just as well could have been a story of athletes, painters, or poets. In this festival hit, Tamhane tells us the story of a young talent who realises with painful slowness that some people are simply not meant for greatness of any kind.
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India U-19: Stars in the Making or Flashes in the Pan?
Winning the U-19 Cricket World Cup is doubtless a milestone we all will cherish, but we must not let that become the criteria for judging players like Prithvi Shaw, Shubman Gill, and Kamlesh Nagarkoti in the future.
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What If Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman Appeared on Koffee With Karan
Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul’s crass comments on Koffee with Karan has left the cricketing community red-faced. The BCCI would have avoided the headache if cricket’s real gentlemen Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman had to face Karan Johar’s bouncers.
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Why We Should All Mourn the Decline of Australian Cricket
Ravi Shastri said winning the Test series against Australia is bigger than the World Cup win of 1983. To be honest, it isn’t even the best performance by an Indian team Down Under, at least in the modern era. That would be 2003, when the Aussies had a team actually worth beating.
