Bangalore: The Indian spin quartet holds the key to India's much sought after bid to be crowned champions of the World. Left-arm spinner Deepa Kulkarni of Indian Railways, for one, will have to play a telling role if India have to
Bangalore: At the end of the Millennium year the Indian women's cricket scene finds itself touching base at the very place it took off. Yes, they have made efforts to move forward but unfortunately they had themselves believing that they were
"Ingratitude, thy marble-hearted fiend." This stray-bird of a Shakespearean quote may not be out of place, when one describes the fate of those dedicated men, who have worked with a single-minded devotion to help get to the bottom of the match-fixing
The erstwhile Sports Minister, Dhindsa, had reasons to believe that the original interim CBI report on match-fixing was whittled down from 210 pages to 162 pages. There are no references in the published report of charges made against Kapil Dev and
Once an unruly invader on the field, during the course of play, had tugged at the shirt of the Indian captain and had it torn to shreds. Hundreds of security personnel, deployed at the stadium, had mutely watched the desecration of
King Nero fiddles while Rome burns. The utter disdain for stark realities in this parable could not have been more unfortunately related to the efforts of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to seek the appointment of a
Each piece of speculation over the contents of the report of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is ready to be presented to the Sports ministry,is at variance with the other. This itself presupposes a kind of tampering with the
Sri Lanka's recent form, before the visit to Sharjah, hasn't been anything to shout about. They were beaten in the very first match at Nairobi. That India should lose three matches on the trot to this Sri Lanka side is something
The CBI report has passed disparaging remarks against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and the part played by it in the whole sordid episode. The CBI has put the blame for the evil at the door of
Even before the report is made public, one can smell a diversion of views between the top CBI sleuths and the influential minister, who is trying his best to impress upon everyone concerned that there is no point in trying to
