Ok so I was discussing a few crossword puzzles with a couple of equally vela friends and came up with some related to cricket. The crossword clues will be a bit lateral and similar too the cryptic puzzles in newspapers but again concerned with cricketers' names mostly and may also contain a few Indian...

Dear Rahul, I watched your press conference today teary-eyed on one of the news channel websites and though I had promised myself that the words ‘second fiddle’ or ‘overshadowed’ won’t appear anywhere in the piece, the irony wasn’t lost on me that before the presser video they showed an ad featuring...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Sunil Gavaskar It was great to see the ovation that Rahul Dravid got when he came in to bat in his final one-day game for India and it was even more emotional when the England players rushed to...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon Often a baton-exchange in cricket takes place in full public view, although sometimes its significance becomes clear only much later. When Vijay Merchant ended his career with 154 against...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon Rahul Dravid plays his cards close to his chest, so we will not know how close he came to telling the selectors to walk off a cliff (or its many physically impossible variants) when...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Partab Ramchand Where was the need for the selectors to press the panic button and recall Rahul Dravid? The Indian team is performing admirably in ODIs, they are ranked No 3, they have just won...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon It is fashionable today to claim that there is no such thing as talent and that all achievement is the result of hard work, or, in the words of Malcolm Gladwell, the “10,000-hour rule...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Partab Ramchand There will be a tendency to dismiss the Indian victory in the first Test at Kingston as routine. The Indians have been notching up victories abroad at regular intervals and this...

Formula 1's most exciting news for few years was about the return of the King. He had left a void in the sport which other pretenders couldn't fill. Or so we thought. Schumi would turn back the ravages of time to emerge victorious as always. But the script went wrong somewhere and today Schumi...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon As I write this, Rahul Dravid has just completed his third century of the calendar year; statistically it has not been his best year, nor has it been his worst. The spotlight has been...