By a fortunate coincidence, this column appears on the seventy-fifth birthday of the living cricketer I hold in the highest esteem. I admire him for his achievements on the field, and, perhaps even mo...

“In fact Chandra kept on talking about that ball he bowled midriff to John Edrich which got him out for a duck in the second innings. He recalled it was my idea and not (Dilip) Sardesai’s ...

The city outside India I know best is London, and the place in London I know best is the British Library, where, for 30 years and counting, I have scoured the capacious collections pertaining to the h...

For the third one-day international against the Australians, members of the Indian cricket team wore military camouflage caps in tribute to the CRPF and its sacrifices. Finely attuned to the temper of...

The presentation of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be on Monday, but Virat Kohli has, in any which way you look at it, become the first India captain to win a Test series in Australia, which has ofte...