You must be joking, Mr Borde

"Do you remember that evening in Bangkok in January 1978 when we had some 12 bahts between us and needed to buy a bottle of soda?" my old captain would ask, recalling the ridiculous experience of circumstantial poverty that had had a couple

At the start of the Indian cricket team's tour of Zimbabwe, I predicted that Debasish Mohanty would return to India without playing a single Test or one-day international

"A captain is only as good as his team." It sounds good when a winning captain makes such a statement, but we in India have got used to beleaguered leaders trotting it out as an excuse for failure

He was called a strokeless wonder when he made his Test debut against West Indies at Ahmedabad

The recent Test series in Zimbabwe once again exposed the Indian limitations on playing surfaces abroad

The most striking aspect of the South Zone Cricket Academy is that a happier bunch of boys will be rare to find

It was some time in the early nineties that I first heard from my former Hyderabad teammates about a striking young batting talent surfacing there

"There's nothing more miserable than the experience of touring with the Indian cricket team as a reserve player," the late P Krishnamurti, former Indian wicket keeper used to say, referring to how lonesome you could feel if you were not a regular in

A system of graded payments and contracts that will bind a shortlist of players to the Board of Control for Cricket in India but protect those not selected from that list to represent India seems to be on the anvil, according to a recent statement

"These are to inform gentlemen, or others who delight in cricket playing, that a match at cricket of ten gentlemen on each side will be played for £10 a head each game (five being designed) and £20 the odd one." This was a notice of a