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Articles of the author Suresh Menon
New India captain off to a great start
Something that always warms the heart on a cricket field is the sight of a new generation taking over from the old with minimum fuss. India's greatest blessing in the recent series has been this - the captaincy takeover has been smooth, the spinner (...)

12 - 11 - 2008
Golden rule: Of greatest import is how the game is played
The number one team in the world has obligations to the sport. It sets the standard by which the sport is judged. Teams lower down the ladder look up to it for guidance. Above all, there is the constant need to be the best in the game not just in (...)

11 - 11 - 2008
Dhoni has Kumble and Dravid to thank for seamless takeover
You only have to imagine Vizzy carrying C.K. Nayudu on his shoulders around a cricket stadium or Ajit Wadekar carrying Tiger Pataudi or Sunil Gavaskar carrying Bishan Bedi or Sourav Ganguly carrying Rahul Dravid to realize what an incredible sight (...)

05 - 11 - 2008
Kumble - intensely competitive yet absolutely fair
His last ball was a full toss and was driven for four. Perhaps, just perhaps, Anil Kumble succumbed to emotion on the field. He was entitled to, of course. At 38, he had seen everything, heard everything and there was only one ambition left - to (...)

03 - 11 - 2008
India and Australia need to spice up Tests
Perhaps it is the tyranny of the looming deadline. Or the desire to be the first to point out a developing trend. Whatever the reason, sports writers tend to be obituarists, happiest when they can write off a player or a team at the first sign of a (...)

29 - 10 - 2008
India faces a tough question - the problem of overchoice
The problems a winning team faces are quite different from those that a losing team has. Australia, the world's best team, looked anything but in Mohali; it was outbatted and outbowled, and most surprising of all, as Ricky Ponting pointed out, it (...)

22 - 10 - 2008
Fan's day out should be memorable
To play a Test match before an audience of the proverbial two men and a dog, as India and Australia are doing in Mohali can be pretty depressing. The President of the Punjab Cricket Association, I.S. Bindra has been honest in his diagnosis – our (...)

21 - 10 - 2008
What a journey for Sachin, for the game and for all of us
When Sachin Tendulkar was 88 in a Test match at Napier, he played fast bowler Danny Morrison into the hands of John Wright, and walked off weeping. He was 16 years old and yet to score a century. On Friday, he fell again at 88. In between, boy had (...)

18 - 10 - 2008
Safety was the theme of the Bangalore Test
The Bangalore Test was cricket's version of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, but in reverse. It was the story of the easily overcome force meeting the alarmingly fragile object. The Australian bowling was pedestrian and the (...)

15 - 10 - 2008
Ponting gave India chance to claw back into Test
Remarkably defensive captaincy by Ricky Ponting allowed India to claw back into the Bangalore Test. Australia is still ahead at the end of day three, but two factors are likely to work against it - its own lack of penetrative bowling, and the (...)

12 - 10 - 2008
Exciting India vs. Australia series in the cards
The changing of guard is a fascinating spectacle, whether at the Buckingham Palace or on the sports field. Australia arrives in India having completed the first half of the operation - the old guard is nearly gone - but with the more difficult half, (...)

08 - 10 - 2008
The Troublesome Test Tussle in historical perspective
Kishin Wadhwaney is not the first name that jumps to mind when cricket writing is discussed. Yet this 80-year-old former sports editor of Indian Express is one of few Indians who can boast of an ‘oueuvre'. He has written 18 books on the game, which (...)

24 - 09 - 2008
Talent alone cannot see a player through
In a couple of months, Yuvraj Singh will be 27 years old. For a cricketer, that is a good age to be. Batsmen are at the peak of their powers, fast bowlers have learnt most of what they are likely to learn; spinners rejoice in the knowledge that (...)

17 - 09 - 2008
Jayawardene does Indians a favor by pointing out the truth
Occasionally, international players hold up a mirror to Indian cricket; sometimes we like what we see and at other times we react self-righteously. When they say that India has the finest batting line-up in the world, we draw ourselves up to our (...)

03 - 09 - 2008
It's time to bury the Champions tournament
Now is a good time to bury the Champions Trophy tournament. It serves no purpose, and (to quote Wisden four years ago) merely “veers between being the second most important in world cricket and a ludicrous waste of time.” To have a World Cup and (...)

27 - 08 - 2008
Home series a blessing for misfiring batsmen, bowlers
Three decades ago a tour of Pakistan spelt the end of the then Fabulous Four of Indian cricket. The famed Indian quartet of spinners, Bishan Bedi, Erapally Prasanna, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and Srinivas Venkatraghavan ceased to be a force in (...)

20 - 08 - 2008
Time for selectors to combine emotion with reason
On the day that India abjectly surrendered a Test series in Sri Lanka, an Indian won the country's first-ever individual gold at the Olympics. The shooter Abhinav Bhindra might have tempered the anger and disappointment following the cricket defeat, (...)

13 - 08 - 2008
A giant overtaking a legend goes unnoticed
In that gentle, serene manner that has been the hallmark of his career, Rahul Dravid took his aggregate past Sunil Gavaskar's in the Galle Test. In fact so gently and so serenely that it was barely noticed. We were told, breathlessly, that Gautam (...)

06 - 08 - 2008
Review system making ‘walker' breed extinct
Anil Kumble has said that it is too early to review the review system in cricket, but it has already had one unhappy consequence. That dwindling breed known as the ‘walker' might finally have become extinct. The last of the great walkers, Rahul (...)

30 - 07 - 2008
Indian board treating players as laborers
‘Restraint of trade' is a phrase that sends more shivers down the spine (if one can be found) of the International Cricket Council than ‘bodyline', ‘match-fixing' or ‘Lalit Modi'. It is a phrase made famous in 1978 by Justice Christopher Slade who (...)

23 - 07 - 2008
Dhoni's pullout – a signal service to Indian sport
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has emerged as some kind of a hero following his decision not to tour with the national team because he is tired and needs a break. Not so long ago, a player who made such a call was dubbed ‘unpatriotic' - that most damning of (...)

16 - 07 - 2008
How to make millions without lifting a finger
Cherchez la femme, cry the French when a crime is committed: look for the woman. Perhaps in the context of the International Cricket Council, it is more appropriate to use the phrase made famous by the journalists' source ‘Deep Throat' in All the (...)

09 - 07 - 2008
BCCI gets a chance to rise above money power
In sport as in politics, money power trumps moral power. The US has money power but lacks moral power; Nelson Mandela has moral power, but has been using it sparingly. Eight years ago, he asked Robert Mugabe to retire. Then nothing. Till last week, (...)

02 - 07 - 2008
No one willing to upset the golden goose
It will be interesting to see if the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will use the ‘racism' card again, and even more interesting to see if it will get away with it again. The five million dollar Champions League (Twenty20 tournament (...)

25 - 06 - 2008
Time to bid one-day cricket goodbye
day cricket fade away gradually like the last bars of an old pop song or will it end abruptly like a drum solo? That its days are numbered is clear. Players, spectators and rule-makers have been cribbing for some time that it has become predictable, (...)

18 - 06 - 2008
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