Wisden arrived this week. Of course one always has to wait a little while for it in Singapore, but wherever you are the arrival of … Read More
Vinoo Mankad
This is a chapter from The Indian Masters, published originally in 2015 The 2004 edition of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack has a full page listing those … Read More
And Then There Were Twelve
My most recent post, on the little masters Tendulkar and Gavaskar, and the not so little Kohli, generated such a wave of interest – there … Read More
Little and Large
I write this on Sachin Tendulkar’s 47th birthday. He made his Test debut, against Pakistan in Karachi, a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall. … Read More
Who is the Fairest of Them All?
I remember listening to an interview with a batsman – a right-handed batsman, I just can’t remember who it was – who was struck by … Read More
April is the Cruellest Month
Whatever your interpretation of T S Elliot’s famous line, April is a month I normally look forward to. The 2020 edition of Wisden – the 157th – … Read More
Time for a Break
I saw an intriguing picture the other day while leafing through a book called Cricket – The Golden Age by Duncan Steer. You will see the image … Read More
Catch Me if You Can
Records are made to be broken. That is certainly true of sport. In some ways it is almost the point of sport. Feats that appear … Read More
Clash of the Titans
Who was the greater bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan or Shane Warne? Such questions are almost impossible to answer. This is obviously the case with cricketers from … Read More
Going Viral
On Friday 14 March 2020 COVID-19 made its first impact on international cricket, and we had our first, decidedly untantalising taste of the immediate and … Read More
Series Triumph Hints at New Dawn for Root’s England
Rarely can an England Test side have enjoyed such dominance in an away Test series against major opposition as they did in the recently concluded … Read More
Mismatch at Mount Maunganui
Should we be surprised that New Zealand are ranked number two in the ICC’s Men’s Test rankings? Hardly. They have won ten successive series at … Read More