This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am — James Joyce
For years the cheeky impersonator, Novak Djokovic is finally discovering the joy of being oneself. Remember the exuberant 20-year-old who came to the Big Apple in 2007 and had everyone at Arthur Ashe in splits with his impersonations of some of tennis’ biggest stars. His ingenious acts starred Maria Sharapova, Rafael Nadal, and Andy Roddick. [...]
The hangover of that historic Saturday in Mumbai refuses to leave the bloodstream so soon. There has been little time to ponder over it and to enjoy its aftertaste. Cricket albeit has moved ahead with such nauseating speed that in less than a fortnight since that spontaneous eruption of joy on the streets of the [...]
It wasn’t a hundred. Though it was by far the innings of the tournament considering the odds stacked up against its possibility and the fear of falling at the last hurdle if it didn’t come off as its background. What Indian captain MS Dhoni showed late on Saturday evening at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai [...]
It was great to sit back and watch Rohit Sharma make an audacious and unbeaten 79 in 46 balls at number 4 in India’s T20 match against Australia where seven other batsmen who played above and below him made a total of 24 runs in 42 balls. Harbhajan Singh, who made 13 runs batting at [...]
“Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life,” wrote journalist and cricket commentator John Arlott. It is a statement that can be appreciated by anyone who is aware of—or has even remotely tried to understand—how the game is run in his part of [...]
Had Rahul Dravid abused the cricket administration it would have just been an understatement at the angst he must have felt for having been dropped from the ODI side after having been given just five innings after a gap of two years. In those five innings Dravid was the highest scorer with the highest strike [...]
A battle within a battle is the additional spice that gives flavour to any cricket series. The 7-match ODI series between India and Australia is the battlefield after India’s first round exit from the Champions Trophy. The tale of two champions, Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar, is an indirect scrap within the direct clash. Tendulkar [...]
It says something about Australia—and a whole lot more about the other world teams—that with just two seasoned world-class batsmen, two proven performers with the ball and aided by an all-rounder with reasonable experience they comfortably won the Champions Trophy. Out of the line-up that India faced when they last played Australia in March 2008—the [...]
Few things in cricket come close to the consummate ease with which Sachin Tendulkar keeps on adding to the mountain of his Test and One-day international runs. And nothing comes close to the pure delight of watching him do so season after season. In November this year, it would be 20 years since he stepped [...]
Far too many headlines and news pieces could be found on Andy Murray being the man who would stop Roger Federer from winning his 15th Grand Slam title before Roddick altered the script. The altered versions then mentioned the American as a postscript to Federer’s charge towards his 15th Grand Slam title. What unfolded though [...]
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