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Master Blaster to Master Chef: Cricketing Legends' Secret Recipes from the Kitchen!
Are you a cricket fan who's always wondered what goes on in the kitchen of your favorite cricketing legends? Well, get ready to step into...
Anindya Dutta
Oct 9, 20242 min read
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My name is Khan and I am a Test player: the Indian batter who could yet tame Aussie pace stars
Josh Hazelwood, Pat Cummins, Michell Starc, Scott Boland, Lance Morris, Cameron Green. They will be the backbone of the attack against...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 16, 20243 min read
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Death of a Strategy? The Curious Case of ‘Bazball’ in India
Not far from one of the world’s most beautiful cricket grounds, nestled high up in the Himalayas at Dharamshala, is the abode of the...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 15, 20249 min read
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Reign of the Raj: Mithali's double century against England in 2002
Playing her first ever Test series on English shores, Mithali Raj announced her arrival with a majestic double hundred in the second Test...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 13, 20245 min read
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Sanga and Mahela – A partnership for the ages
It was for over two days in July 2006 that Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene's friendship was truly put to test and cemented on a...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 13, 20246 min read
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43 reasons to love the Virat Kohli decade
The way Kohli is going about his ODI hundreds, Tendulkar’s 49 tons from 463 ODIs over 23 years is a short term target, perhaps a few...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 13, 20243 min read
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Tracing the origins and evolution of T20 cricket
The origins of the post-work T20 cricket matches between clubs actually go back more than 100-years, to the rural setting of Yorkshire in...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 13, 20245 min read
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India’s best chance in 70 years
Four decades ago, it was Packer. This time, it is Sandpaper. Steve Smith and David Warner’s bans may have just tilted the odds in favour...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 13, 20243 min read
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Rohit Sharma & Co on the brink of doing an Australia on Australia. And it’s all in the mind
Will Captain Courageous lift the World Cup that flushes away the gut-wrenching disappointment he suffered 12 years ago? Will Gill, Siraj,...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 13, 20245 min read
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‘I wasn’t perfect. I love loud music, smoked, drank, bowled a bit of leg spin’: Warne on himself
Shane Warne arrived as an oasis in the desert of despair, sent by the cricketing gods to slake the thirst of an entire generation of...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 13, 20245 min read
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As Kiwis turn to Indian spin, Mumbai welcomes home Ajaz Patel and Rachin Ravindra
New Zealand's Ajaz Patel and Rachin Ravindra, both in their first year of Test cricket, will see a homecoming like no other when they...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 13, 20245 min read
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John Woodcock, his India connect and how he handled the ‘Sachin vs Bradman’ question
One of the most incredible journeys Woodcock made was to India. In 1976-77, he drove a Rolls Royce from London to Bombay to cover the...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 13, 20246 min read
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In Kolkata’s Eden Gardens, India tasted forbidden fruit: How a batting partnership undid Australia's invincibility
In March 2001 at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens, India was facing Australia — opponents who were laying claim to being the greatest Test team in...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 9, 20247 min read
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Revisiting 2011 World Cup final: With six runs, how MS Dhoni-led Team India made history
The World Cup is not designed to be a cakewalk for any team. There are no easy matches, and no room for complacency, as the Indian team...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 9, 20247 min read
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The greatest last wicket stand: Revisiting Shute Banerjee and Chandu Sarwate's 1946 record-breaking display at the Oval
Starting their tour in Worcester and stopping by at Oxford, the last team from Undivided India to tour Britain came to the Oval in London...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 9, 20246 min read
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How a Kapil Dev-led Team India stormed the final bastion of English cricket to conquer Lord’s in 1986
The 1986 Test side that Kapil Dev led to the British Isles was different from the others that had toured England in the past, in one...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 9, 20246 min read
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Revisiting the 2002 NatWest Trophy Final: The win that cemented India’s dominance in limited overs cricket
On a glorious Saturday in 2002 at Lord’s, the July sun blazing down from a cloudless sky, Team India faced up to powerful hosts England....
Anindya Dutta
Jul 8, 20246 min read
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India's greatest hour in Test cricket: Revisiting historic August 1971 win over England at the Oval
The psychological scars of 300 years of colonialism and 40 years of disappointments had been washed away by the indomitable spirit of 11...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 8, 20248 min read
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Out of the darkness of apartheid: The 1991 match where South Africa returned to international cricket, and won Kolkata's heart
It made sense for India, which had been at the forefront of the anti-apartheid movement, to lead the way in helping a future multi-racial...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 8, 20247 min read
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When Siva's flame lit up Bombay: Revisiting the remarkable story of England's 1984 tour of India
As if the two assassinations at the start of the tour were not enough to get along with, between the second and third Tests, the Bhopal...
Anindya Dutta
Jul 8, 202410 min read
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