It will be a little difficult to swallow at first

Hamilton is important both for itself, and for what it says about the recent Indian teams

The one-day series in New Zealand is testimony to the amazing pace at which this form has shed its complexity, rid itself of formula and arrived at a simplicity that might, in the end, bring about its own ruin

The philosopher Umberto Eco has written thus about pornographic movies, "whose true and sole aim is to stimulate the spectator's desire, from beginning to end, and in such a way that, while his desire is stimulated by scenes of various and varied

  Recently I found myself defending the principle of celebrating it, although I don’t think much of Valentine’s Day itself

Following the debacle in Sri Lanka, the so-called Fabulous Four have now reasserted themselves

Is Harbhajan suffering from the No

Seldom can a fourth innings have been so important - for country and individual - as the one that is about to unfold before us

If India understand the frustration of being an outcast and the joy that comes with acceptance, then they have a responsibility to tour Pakistan next month

The killer instinct and the quota instinct - the lack of one and the existence of the other - have been analysed threadbare

The third one-dayer in Kanpur, played to a full house, left a bad taste in the mouth because neither the game nor the paying spectator was taken into consideration

When you see Yuvraj bring his bat down in an arc, check himself and merely jab at the ball to send it sailing over long off, and that too against Andrew Flintoff, you may be forgiven for asking the obvious question: why is this man not a regular in

The very qualities that make Dravid the great player he is - the intensity, the obsession with getting things right, the habit of introspection - take him down a slippery slope when things are not going well

Australia have not looked so rudderless for a long time