When you look at India’s itinerary in the World Cup, it clearly dawns that they are the most favoured hosts of three. Of course it helps when one of the BCCI’s top administrators is the tournament commissioner and the resultant is a sizeable gap between most of their six first-round matches. As if that...

When the fixture list for this tournament was drawn a long time ago, the India-Ireland encounter was just another of those matches where the minnows would line-up against a powerhouse team, hoping to have a good day. If they did, it would just about make an impression of the progress they have made since...

Then: The Iceman Cometh! Captain Cool! Captain Fantastic! Now: The Axeman cometh?? Captain Evil! Captain ... you get the pic! "As you reap, the harvest you shall not keep" ... seems to be what many from the conventional media as well as new-world media vigilantes, also sometimes referred to...