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All Columnists
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Date: 3/21/2013 - 6/19/2013
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BCCI's long road to dealing with conflicts
Jun 11, 2013
Of the three agencies looking at corruption in Indian cricket â? the police, the media and the BCCI - two have already arrived at judgements and handed out sentences.
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Board of Compromises for Cricket in India
May 29, 2013
As Saurabh Somani has suggested in his column in wisdenindia.com, perhaps Indian cricket survived not so much because of the integrity of its players but because of the indifference of the general public to the scandals.
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Introduce foreign players into the Ranji Trophy championship
May 21, 2013
Bowling with Dale Steyn or batting with Michael Hussey (in IPL) can be an education, and many youngsters have benefited. Perhaps the time has come to extend the concept, and introduce foreign stars into the Ranji Trophy championship.
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BCCI must act on fixing
May 21, 2013
Let us not make the same mistake we made at the turn of this century when we allowed match-fixers to get away with a slap on the wrists and then welcomed them back into the cricketing fraternity.
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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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