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All Columnists
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Date: 2/22/2013 - 5/23/2013
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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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Results have been utterly disappointing for New Zealand
Mar 11, 2013
Why a Test playing nation which gets a more than tidy sum for appearances in world tournaments held by the ICC needs money is the moot qusetion for it does suggest that there may not be everything right with the administration but then it is not a subcontinent nation, so no inconvenient questions will be asked.
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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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