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Mukul Kesavan

World Cup wish list - 1

World Cup wish list - 1

Here’s my batting card for the World Cup: Tendulkar and Ganguly to open, Yuvraj, Dravid, Sehwag, Karthik and Dhoni to follow

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan
Is the Indian finger spinner obsolete?

Is the Indian finger spinner obsolete?

In the first seven years of this new century India has produced a queue of fast-medium workhorses…but not one distinguished spinner.

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan
Let's keep Test cricket white

Let's keep Test cricket white

Test cricket is lovely because it happens in whites

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan
The strange death of Indian cricket

The strange death of Indian cricket

Yesterday my son, who is fifteen, said: “ Last year we had a great team.” I was about to set him right, to say that it was nearly three years ago, in 2004, that we’d had something approaching a great team when Ganguly’s Goers had nearly beaten

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan
A blog for cricket tragics

A blog for cricket tragics

This is a fan's eye blog

25-Feb-2013•Mukul Kesavan
Why laissez faire won't do for Test cricket

Why laissez faire won't do for Test cricket

For the five-day game to survive, we need a BCCI that harnesses the market and tempers its profit-maximising logic to create a stable environment for the format

24-Jun-2012•Mukul Kesavan
How not to close a great career

How not to close a great career

Sachin Tendulkar's media blitz in the wake of his 100th hundred has been unseemly and cheapens his legacy

08-Apr-2012•Mukul Kesavan
Stylish in the trenches

Stylish in the trenches

Rahul Dravid's singular achievement was in employing defensive batting to winning ends

10-Mar-2012•Mukul Kesavan
Why the 100th doesn't matter

Why the 100th doesn't matter

An "international hundred" is an artificial landmark and we don't need to be flying into a frenzy because Tendulkar is on the brink of a hundred of those

03-Dec-2011•Mukul Kesavan
A republican prince

A republican prince

Pataudi was a legend when he started. His pedigree, flair, and epic disregard for his handicap, spoke to the anxieties and aspirations of a young India and to its hunger for heroes

23-Sep-2011•Mukul Kesavan
Cricket's modern Zen master

Cricket's modern Zen master

It is tempting to see Virender Sehwag as a product of the limited-overs age, but he uses more or less orthodox strokes. The key to his success is that he has the ability to live in the present

08-Nov-2010•Mukul Kesavan
A princely state

A princely state

Pataudi brought to Indian cricket a dash of hauteur and a touch of heroism

21-Aug-2010•Mukul Kesavan
What was Cricket Australia thinking?

What was Cricket Australia thinking?

How did anyone ever think Howard's nomination would fly? If this was a way for CA to rein in the BCCI, it was ill-conceived

06-Jul-2010•Mukul Kesavan
The small enforcer

The small enforcer

It is a strangely conflicted mixture of rigorous self-denial and cathartic violence that make up Tendulkar's craft

14-Nov-2009•Mukul Kesavan
Haunted by virtue

Haunted by virtue

A drug-testing regime as invasive as WADA's needs to be vigorously debated, and thanks to the opposition from India's cricketers maybe it will now be

10-Aug-2009•Mukul Kesavan
Lessons from Lahore

Lessons from Lahore

The notion of cricketers being immune to attacks was a myth that should never have been put to the test

05-Mar-2009
Easy lies the head

Easy lies the head

Dhoni is different from other India captains, principally in the poise and calm he brings to the role

28-Oct-2008
The last tour

The last tour

Why the Australia series marks the end of India's great middle order, and even, possibly, of the primacy of Test cricket

25-Sep-2008
Spin kills

Spin kills

Never before Mendis has a spinner dominated Indian batsmen so comprehensively and collectively

22-Aug-2008•Mukul Kesavan
The politics of morality

The politics of morality

The West's hypocrisy over Zimbabwe may feel obnoxious, but the BCCI has to decide whether it wishes to be the patron-in-chief of a dysfunctional and compromised cricket body

03-Jul-2008
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