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Suresh Menon Columns
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Date: 5/19/2012 - 5/19/2013
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Sachin's 40th birthday comes with two messages
Apr 29, 2013
The 40th comes with two messages. One for him, the other for us. For Sachin, the end is near however you look at it. And for us, it comes with intimations of mortality. For over two decades, Tendulkar was our version of Dorian Gray, keeping us youthful and in some permanent world where everybody is in his 20s.
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Gayle - Bradman of T20 cricket
Apr 26, 2013
Gayle is not just a T20 specialist â? there are a few of them about â? but an all round batsman with two triple centuries in Tests to his name.
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Ponting's Plainspeak
Apr 19, 2013
There is something depressing about watching two of the game's greatest batsmen struggle in a format where the journeymen players appear so comfortable.
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N Srinivasan sacricifices the sanctity of sport
Apr 01, 2013
The president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India has many interests and many conflicts of interest. He is a businessman, he owns (or at least his company owns) CSK, the most successful IPL franchise, and he operates out of Chennai.
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A new India is taking shape
Mar 24, 2013
With the Kohlis and Pujaras and Dhawans and Vijays coming on so well, perhaps the pressure on Tendulkar will be reduced while his experience in the dressing room among a team of youngsters would be invaluable.
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Sehwag - Phenomenally gifted, too-easily satisfied batsman
Mar 11, 2013
Just before he turned 30, Cricinfo asked me to answer the question: Is Sehwag a great player? It was tempting to answer 'Yes', and move on. At that stage, his record of 60 Tests, average of 53 and 15 centuries had been bettered only by Sunil Gavaskar.
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Women's Cricket: Let us give Christina Willes and Mary Mitford their due
Mar 04, 2013
Thanks to television commercials for the women's T20 World Championships recently, many who were not aware of it earlier now know that it was a woman who scored the first double century in limited overs cricket, about a dozen years before Sachin Tendulkar made one and that the first world cup in the sport was the women's world cup in 1973. It took the men two years to catch up.
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Dhoni has a chance to redeem himself
Feb 22, 2013
It is tempting to see India and Australia as two sides of the same coin. Two teams who will miss a couple of champion batsmen - Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey on the one hand and Rahul Dravid and V V S Laxman on the other.
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The 40 year old cricketer
Jan 15, 2013
The last 40-year-old to play for India was the great all rounder Vinoo Mankad, who finished in 1959.
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Sehwag was not dropped for lack of form alone
Jan 07, 2013
Sehwag wasn't dropped for his current lack of form alone (although an average of 23 from his last ten matches isn't inspiring) but because selectors see no potential for the 2015 World Cup.
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Lack of fast bowling strength
Jan 03, 2013
It can't be the weather, it can't be the diet, it can't be the training, it can't be the domestic system, it can't be the fitness levels, so what is it?
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Where do India go from here?
Dec 18, 2012
Dhoni might have saved his place in the eleven with his 99 in Nagpur, but he did little to suggest in the final Test that he would be the man to lead the team out of its current mess.
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To think curators work on their own is naieve
Dec 03, 2012
Home sides always made tracks that suited their teams best - it would be foolish to do otherwise - and it was part of the game's charm that conditions differed from venue to venue; an aspect of greatness in the players remains the ability to master varying conditions.
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A closely-fought series is far more attractive
Nov 26, 2012
Suddenly, a series that looked to be heading in one direction has burst into life, and that is wonderful. Revenge is fine in war and love affairs, but in cricket, the closely-fought series is far more attractive.
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Azhar - It is not about innocence or guilt
Nov 12, 2012
Should we rejoice that Mohammad Azharuddin has been reprieved by the High Court or vent our frustration on a cricket board that made no effort to build a case that would have held up in court?
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Night Tests are the way forward
Nov 06, 2012
Is it better to play to relatively bigger crowds at night or to play in the sun before the proverbial three men and a dog?
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Fletcher was in a no-win situation
Oct 07, 2012
Temperamentally Duncan Fletcher is a back-roomer, working best with strong captains who execute the team plan; a consultant rather than a ring master.
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Remembering the second tied Test
Sep 24, 2012
Twenty six years ago this month, the Australian off spinner Greg Matthews hit Maninder Singh on the pad, umpire Vikram Raju's finger went up, and a Test match ended in a tie at the Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
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Reimagining the roles of Indian players
Sep 10, 2012
The home series against England and Australia will be as much about youngsters making a name for themselves as about the established stars reinventing themselves in the new order.
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India can afford to carry Rohit Sharma
Jul 30, 2012
Sport has a version of throwing good money after bad; sometimes you recover the investment, at other times you take a deep breath and cut your losses.
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Hashim Amla aspires for greatness
Jul 23, 2012
With the retirement of Rahul Dravid and the winding down of Ricky Ponting's career, Amla can claim to be the best No. 3 in the world - not that he is likely to.
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The challenge of wicket keeping
Jul 16, 2012
Wicketkeeper's fingers are not as celebrated as boxer's ears, but they bear testimony in a similar sense to the physical demands of sport.
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New evaluation system developed by Satyam Mukherjee
Jul 09, 2012
Steve Waugh is rated No.1 with Graeme Smith (No. 2), the only non-Aussie in the top five according to a new algorithm - developed by Satyam Mukherjee, a scientist at Northwestern University, Illinois.
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The malady of match fixing in cricket
Jun 25, 2012
That Mohammed Amir, a potential world-beater as left arm seamer should so early in his career fall prey to the temptation, and one which was put in his path by his national captain Salman Butt only makes the whole issue more pathetic.
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