Jhakas

The January Man

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:44:40 +0530

The Chappell Brothers have a pathological obsession with the human anatomy. I guess it's a psychological condition that afflicts retired Aussie players desperate for modern-day cricketing relevance, give breaking news

India enters the exit door

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:57:21 +0530

Team India got a serene, solid and spectacular burial at Mohali on Sunday evening. By the time the ceremonial formalities concluded' the exuberant stands were empty, and millions of wild

10 Questions for Vengsarkar

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:43:03 +0530

Dear Sirs, Please condescend to respond to the under-mentioned questions when time permits from your hectic schedule and pressing engagements. 1) If there is no real talent available in

Slaughtered in South Africa

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:47:59 +0530

The expected debacle at Port Elizabeth confirmed the fact that the over-rated, over-hyped and over-done "process of experimentation" and favoured selection of "young boys" by the incompetent BCCI, a bunch

The SMS conspiracy

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:26:32 +0530

A couple of days ago, and all hell broke loose. The reason was as preposterous as a donkey’s tail recreating a Picasso. A cricket journalist from the once serene paradise

Who The Hell Is Rahul Dravid?

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:59:35 +0530

First Dilip Vengsarkar , Chief Selector, says we will have a "rotation policy" Then he does a 360* rotation himself and says , what rotation policy? All that matters is

Breaking News: BCCI hires a CEO

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:54:58 +0530

After exhaustive deliberations, the BCCI has come to the sublime conclusion that a CEO for the BCCI is a totally redundant position, like an unwanted third shoe. On hearing this,

Impotent cricket council? Or plain stupid!

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:08:51 +0530

At least currently the most famous Darrell in the universe can boast of hair, but the game's so-called highest governing body , the ICC, has at best revealed it's shining

Aspi, maanglik cricketers and me

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:14:20 +0530

My mercurial driver of 12 years, 7 months and 13 days, Aspi, drives me with undue circumspection as he navigates some wild traffic on Mumbai’s chaotic streets. "Saar?"

The real truth about Bhajji and Monkey gate

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:22:25 +0530

In lighter vein, it was the fault of the backside of Brett Lee. Amidst the growing crescendo of the Monkey-Gate affair, getting unduly incendiary with volatile positions being adopted

How to poach a coach: BCC Ishtyle!

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:59:17 +0530

I have always believed that BCCI is so thick-skinned that an African rhinoceros will blush scarlet in it's presence. But one can underestimate it's impenetrable texture at one's own

Agony in Ahmedabad

editor@cricketnext.com — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:34:50 +0530

Brian Lara was clearly suffering from a stiff back. But he was certainly not stiff-upper lip when doing a post-match post-mortem. As the West Indies, after an inexplicably exasperating crawl

Tendulkar’s Tight Slap

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 28 May 2007 06:00:14 +0530

As India celebrated their most gigantic Test triumph against a struggling Bangladesh, there was additional incremental reason for jubilation other than the convincing whitewash. Sachin Tendulkar announced that he was

Hasn't Chappell destroyed Pathan?

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:44:00 +0530

The popular poster-boy of Indian cricket not long ago, was in an unprecedented move, sent packing back home from South Africa , ostensibly to “ regain form” by playing two

One flu over the cuckoo's nest

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:02:49 +0530

Rahul Dravid was apparently sporting an electric blanket even as Chacha Chandu walked gingerly behind the Indian skipper, his face barely visible in a monkey cap. Sourav Ganguly mistook Chacha

10 ways to revive Indian cricket

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:43:37 +0530

If you saw the Australia versus the South Africa contest the day following India’s abject surrender to Sri Lanka in a survival match, you would not shed tears for India,

10 WAYS TO REVIVE INDIAN CRICKET

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:37:41 +0530

If you saw the Australia versus the South Africa contest the day following India’s abject surrender to Sri Lanka in a survival match, you would not shed tears for India,

Hoo Ha India and Sourav Ganguly

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:53:12 +0530

What you instantly like about the Black Cap skipper besides his deep baritone voice is his spontaneous, pugnacious demeanour. On being questioned on the differing capabilities of India’s current captain

Crazy Cuttack kiya Re

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:16:29 +0530

The man who is credited with the historic byline of calling the Indian cricket selectors (very rightfully, in my opinion) a "bunch of jokers" yesterday accredited himself with another famous

Pay the players, sack Manohar

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 05:37:20 +0530

The national disgruntlement and collective dismay over India's miserable surrender at Durban, South Africa is understandable. Rahul Dravid and his Men in Blue have been justifiably criticised for a

Sixteen and Sachin

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:13:40 +0530

I read a recent opinion poll in a newspaper with a tinge of sadness, and a flood of nostalgia. The question posed was on expected lines; Do you support the

Writing on The Wall

editor@cricketnext.com — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:14:23 +0530

It was a moment of classical supreme irony and historical co-incidence, as a speeding in-swinger from Sri Lankan speedster Dilhara Fernando castled Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar. To use that

Drubbing at Durban

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:59:17 +0530

As India were once again, in familiar fashion, collapsing like a brittle pack of cards, their celebrated coach Greg Chappell was busily immersed reading a book. Perhaps after giving

Kaalia

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:27:09 +0530

Andrew Symond's biggest consolation is that fans don't boo nobodies. Symonds has a knack of usually hitting headlines for contemptuously hoisting innocuous bowlers into the stands with professional ease. But

C for Chappell, D for Dravid

editor@cricketnext.com — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:50:03 +0530

Not long ago, the Indian cricket team believed that they had scaled dizzying heights, their altitude higher than Petronas Towers. Their quixotic coach Greg Chappell, pronounced daily breaking news, making

Namastey India

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:48:00 +0530

At the time of writing, people in offices are moving around with restrained enthusiasm, their natural spontaneity tempered with growing nervousness as the clock ticks unrelentingly ahead to India’s pre-appointed

Rocky Balboa

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:00:47 +0530

The big news going into the World Cup is the incredible knock-out punches delivered to the mighty Australians in two successive bouts against lowly ranked opponents, England and New Zealand.

'I–con Ganguly' says Colonel

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:21:59 +0530

Dilip Vengsarkar , Chief Selector of Indian cricket , sat on a massive jeweled throne in the shape of a cricket ball, twirling his dark moustache with a sadistic grin

Rahul, Sachin and Sourav

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 22 May 2007 06:00:04 +0530

There was something surreal, serene and substantial about Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar at Chittagong in the Ist Test between Bangladesh and India. It had nothing to do with the

The silent Prince

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:21:49 +0530

As Nagpur steamrolled itself into frenzied merry-making and India went into jubilant celebrations yesterday after a sensational 14 runs victory against the West Indies , I was reminded of a

My Indian team for World Cup

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:42:13 +0530

I think the Indian selectors will do well to select the team for the World Cup next year at the end of the South Africa tour, which will give the

Ponytail, Padukone And The Professor

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:52:16 +0530

Reportedly, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's celebrated ponytail snaked furtively, in creepy locomotion on the clean shaven cheeks of Professor Ratnakar Shetty, BCCI CEO, CAO , COO or whatever. The

Irish Cream, Common Sense and Ajay Jadeja

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:44:07 +0530

There was something strangely awkward, somewhat unfamiliar, and strikingly conspicuous about the Indian team’s departure for some cricketing action in picturesque Ireland. Dravid’s Dadas actually looked happy. It was so

India takes berth at Perth

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:34:33 +0530

RP Singh castled the grumpy Shaun Tait, who had perpetually argued with himself while making futile efforts to bowl at his promised 170 kmph , and the rest was easily

Thank you, John Buchanan!

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:03:33 +0530

CricketNext stands vindicated once again. John Buchanan, the erstwhile mega successful coach of the famous Australian team has openly advocated that to make ODI cricket more spectator-friendly and give it

Dance like a man

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:33:58 +0530

Historic indeed! There is nothing better than returning to your country and seeing the tri-colours flying high, swirling in the breeze. In 3 ¼ days, for the first time on

Want a sandwich?

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:41:20 +0530

In every social conversation these days, the one constant question we are asked is ---- Who will win the Champions Trophy? Since we are not in the business of

Will Team India team-up?

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:58:45 +0530

Even as every myopic , self-serving BCCI office bearer soundly thrashed the battered Men in Blue since their low-profile return from the West Indies, the erstwhile national heroes kept a

Will Team India Team-Up?

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:46:46 +0530

Even as every myopic, self-serving BCCI office bearer soundly thrashed the battered Men in Blue since their low-profile return from the West Indies, the erstwhile national heroes kept a strange,

The good Englishman

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:48:00 +0530

It was close to midnight when Breaking News flashed ominously on TV screens. There is something eerily dark about the media obsession of flashing Breaking News intermittently. It usually carries

Chicken tikka masala

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:44:09 +0530

In what they call the Mecca of cricket, the pristine, regal and magnificent stadium of Lord's, three Indian batsmen will step on it's hallowed green turf for the last time

What's up, Whatmore?

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 18 May 2007 06:10:49 +0530

I have been accused with both endearing reminders and impertinent nudges bordering on unconcealed rudeness by my readers that I should keep my columns abbreviated, and should desist from using

What's up, Whatmore?

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 18 May 2007 05:33:59 +0530

I have been accused with both endearing reminders and impertinent nudges bordering on unconcealed rudeness by my readers that I should keep my columns abbreviated, and should desist from using

BOUNCE BACK INDIA!

editor@cricketnext.com — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:09:38 +0530

In one simple word - India were stunned at Trinidad. The Boys in Green thrashed with determined ruthlessness the Men in Blue. Not too far away in Kingston,

The good Bangalorean

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:51:53 +0530

In today's times humility is not just a conspicuous human trait. It is almost unknown, unheard of personality streak. Ergo, the extreme surprise by several sports correspondents at Indian captain

No jacket required

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:35:07 +0530

The world’s richest cricket board ensured that it’s 15 member-golden geese went on the crucial foreign tour of South Africa without their clothes on (pun intended)! To accentuate matters, two

Life is a pitch!

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:08:40 +0530

Less than 10 days into the so-called mini-World Cup, and believe me you, it feels already that the cup runneth over. This Champions Trophy has clearly become a controversial conundrum,

Thank you, Sourav

editor@cricketnext.com — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:53:43 +0530

I write this piece from a broadband connection in a hotel room in downtown Orlando, USA at an unearthly hour , as final tail VRV Singh and former skipper Sourav

The Lion King roars

editor@cricketnext.com — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:18:06 +0530

I know that Sachin Tendulkar would not have liked it at all. As the country took drum-beats and hit the crowded streets, celebrations taking on their contagious frenzy, and the

Sunny nights

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:39:13 +0530

I think former Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar was being deliberately provocative when he for the umpteenth time raised the hackneyed issue of Australian sledging on-field, and unnecessarily created a hullabaloo

Will Tendulkar do an Agassi?

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:32:06 +0530

Although her current heart-throb is a disheveled looking, perpetually sulky someone who looks in desperate need of some hot soup from a teeny-bopper serial called One Tree Hill, my daughter's

Was Sourav tricked into a trap by his tennis elbow?

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:30:26 +0530

Ever since Sourav Ganguly's leaked e-mail about Jagmohan Dalmiya has found wide circulation thanks to the classical crack in the sewage linings, all hell has broken loose. And the

Finding Netherland or Neverland? An ICC story

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:28:49 +0530

Until Louis Figo, the dapper Portugese captain beguiled the Netherland's football team by getting them a red card from an over-enthusiastic match referee, the Orange men looked fairly threatening in

Being John is my right!

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:27:15 +0530

Philip Kotler, the great marketing guru, was in town recently lecturing Indian marketing professionals and brand managers on concepts, positioning and strategy. I have a sneaking suspicion that the former

How India can win the World Cup: John Wright

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:22:30 +0530

So erstwhile coach John Wright got so exasperated with Virender Sehwag's natural instincts, he almost thrashed the stout, brawny, beefy Nawab of Najafgarh in the dressing room in England in

Sorry Sachin, but Sanjay is right!

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:18:54 +0530

Just a few days ago I bumped against the affable, ever-smiling and ubiquitous Sanjay Manjrekar, who looked as if he could have been auditioning for a role in a TV

A sorry Sachin!

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:38:18 +0530

Amidst the rising crescendo of irrepressible hype over India's singular victory over ODI world champions Australia at MCG, Melbourne a few days ago, two dramatic incidents of great cricketing relevance

Dravid's Valentine Girl

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:03:32 +0530

She stood there amidst the prevailing cacophony of blaring horns, serpentine traffic and haphazardly walking harried pedestrians, selling a symbolic gift of romantic inclinations. In her hand were a few

Dravid’s Valentine girl

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:56:29 +0530

The Tendulkar mystery

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:06:07 +0530

“I offered him the vice-captaincy,” Chairman of Selectors, Dilip Vengsarkar has been quoted as saying. So was it a unilateral decision taken by the Big Boss to offer the coveted

That Tall Man From Bangalore

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:18:46 +0530

566 Test wickets, 334 ODI scalps, an incredible historic century at the Oval at 36 years of age, 10 wickets in an innings against Pakistan , innumerable victory spells leading

The ghost who walks

editor@cricketnext.com — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:05:15 +0530

The murky, mysterious days of furtive speculation on match-fixing in cricket, like the perennial Phantom on a white horse, is back. It took two totally unrelated events as segregated as

The Ghost Who Walks

editor@cricketnext.com — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:10:18 +0530

The murky, mysterious days of furtive speculation on match-fixing in cricket, like the perennial Phantom on a white horse, is back. It took two totally unrelated events as segregated as

The Ponting Towers

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:05:45 +0530

Watching the two tallest twin building in the world, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur from my 19th floor room in Mandarin Oriental at the midnight hour was quite a

The Ponting Towers

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 14 May 2007 04:45:25 +0530

Watching the two tallest twin building in the world, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur from my 19th floor room in Mandarin Oriental at the midnight hour was quite a

Chandu ke chacha, BCCI ka bakra

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:26:19 +0530

It is rumoured that when former cricketer Chandu Borde received a phone call telling him about his appointment as Manager of the Indian team for the next 100 days, he

Chandu ke chacha, BCCI ka bakra

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:26:19 +0530

It is rumoured that when former cricketer Chandu Borde received a phone call telling him about his appointment as Manager of the Indian team for the next 100 days, he

Will Twenty20 destroy Indian cricket?

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:36:45 +0530

The resplendent green astro-turf destroyed Indian hockey. On regular grass, the stylish finesse and dribbling skills of Pakistan and Indian players with long sticks was legendary. The two countries met

Dravid's Dadas: Go For It!

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:12:50 +0530

In a few days from now, India’s long awaited campaign for the prestigious World Cup will commence against Bangladesh at Trinidad. Come 7.30 pm in the evening, and people will

Dravid's moment of truth

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:35:34 +0530

Indian cricket fans went to lunch on Sunday afternoon with a keen sense of anticipation , expecting some drum-beats, accompanying cacophony and satisfied burps post a hearty meal. After struggling

Sania, Bhajji and Mera Bharat Mahaan

editor@cricketnext.com — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:18:38 +0530

"Teri maa ki..." (Your mother's...), which sounds dangerously close, phonically speaking, to pronouncing "monkey" is what apparently Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh told Australian Andrew Symonds, which has caused such a

Ganguly's indomitable spirit

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:54:15 +0530

In the early fall of last year, India's just rudely discarded captain, dumped uncharitably by a palpably evil-minded coach, a noncommittal docile skipper, a prejudiced selection panel and wishy-washy BCCI

INXS: BCCI's rock concert

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:31:37 +0530

There is no substitute for experience. None other than good ole' Geoffrey Boycott, the veteran opener with a soft spot for both the slender Shilpa Shetty and the aristocratic Prince

Ford Fiesta

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:19:57 +0530

It’s only in India that the selection between two essentially low profile cricket coaches of fairly questionable credentials can create the kind of brouhaha it has. The week-end assumed staggering

Saving Test cricket from 20/20

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:37:56 +0530

The sapping October heat is behind us, as is the hullabaloo about the Champions Trophy. The latter manifested two startling factors; One-Day cricket is becoming boringly predictable, and experimentation such

Sachin in Shanghai

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:23:43 +0530

Two weeks ago when I boarded a Cathay Pacific airline at the godforsaken hour of 4.30 in the morning ( or was it night?), I prayed fervently for some much-needed

A tight slap, nudge and a Bollywood song

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:03:07 +0530

I had planned to watch a silly comedy on DVD, when thanks to some good fortune I happened to be switching TV channels. There was a heated discussion going on

Cricket 'bowled out' by ICC

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:25:20 +0530

The International Cricket Council ( ICC) had earlier stated it’s intent on making cricket (being officially played by just 10 countries) into a global sport like football. In its hurried

SRS: the big three

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:40:46 +0530

That phone call was more than just a customary buzz. When chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar received a tinkle from Indian skipper Rahul Dravid, I am sure he was more than

Fixed by cricket's hookers

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:36:56 +0530

Currently, cricket’s most infamous celebrity is a Marlon Samuels, a bellicose cracker of a West Indian batsman, a handy off-spinner and an athletic fielder justifying 24 raw years of youthful

BCCI bullies Indian cricketers

editor@cricketnext.com — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:51:12 +0530

The BCCI, even as it was conducting it’s philharmonic orchestra show on a sweltering afternoon in Bombay on April 7 last afternoon, got a fitting, stinging slap on it’s face.

Harbhajan Singh's shame

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:30:09 +0530

"Dad, what does Teri Maa Ki mean?", queried my daughter three months shy of turning 11, her face betraying prodigious curiosity , a natural corollary of what she had been

Of Rahul and Sourav

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:53:32 +0530

One thing is apparent (I am sure by now all avid regular followers of cricket have guessed as well) that just by being an ex-cricketer, or possessing rapid-speaking skills coupled

Om Sachin Om

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:54:02 +0530

The hullabaloo created yesterday by star Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar's decision to quietly refuse the tricky if not altogether treacherous assignment of being Indian skipper for Test matches was fairly

The unmaking of champions

editor@cricketnext.com — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:32:14 +0530

Greg Chappell, now as much an Indian household name as Rakhi Sawant, was fervently signing autograph on books last evening appropriately titled The Making of Champions. The fact that

Coach Toyota beats Ford

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:47:30 +0530

At the time of writing, the dilemma over The Man Who Would Be King seems to be reaching the complex state of a jigsaw puzzle. If ever Indian cricket was

BENSON, BUCKNOR AND A BLACK SUNDAY

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:06:11 +0530

It was Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly's impeccable conduct and impregnable character as they trooped disconsolately back to the dressing room that really defined cricket's Black Sunday in the second

Why?

editor@cricketnext.com — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:08:41 +0530

Just why did India open the batting with V Sehwag all over again in the second innings of the third and final test of the India-South Africa series at Newlands,

Yellow, yellow dirty fellow

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:02:03 +0530

Finally, after the unexpected rain clouds cleared, it was the colour yellow all over. "Stage fright" had perceptibly consumed the West Indies, and Lara’s theme song was sounding off-key.

Aspi, an assasination, Chappell and me

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:55:46 +0530

“Saar?” said Aspi, maneuvering gingerly between two cyclists, a honking cab at the back and two teenagers riding a mobike in swirling left-right swings that would have made Shakira remarkably

Aspi, an assassination, Chappell and me

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:15:18 +0530

"Saar?" said Aspi, maneuvering gingerly between two cyclists, a honking cab at the back and two teenagers riding a mobike in swirling left-right swings that would have made Shakira remarkably

Honestly speaking, Greg

editor@cricketnext.com — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:12:17 +0530

"It’s difficult to be honest in India," says the over-garrulous, and usually inflammatory coach of the Indian cricket team, Greg Chappell in a rare moment of philosophical lapse. A

The saga of V-sarkar

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:10:07 +0530

The BCCI soap opera is like a perpetually bloating bubble, it keeps expanding at an exponential rate, providing us with comic relief at intermittent intervals. Thankfully, Vice President

Have a nice flight, Mr Chappell!

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:37:58 +0530

I strongly recommend to all the passionate lovers of Indian cricket and to those looking for an inspirational story to see the outstanding Hollywood film, Coach Carter. I also urge

Three cheers for Vengsarkar

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:00:39 +0530

I had no intention to write this hurried piece, but am compelled to do so, courtesy some extremely asinine comments made by typical fuddy-duddy bureaucrats who administer Indian cricket, and

Down south in South Africa

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:11:07 +0530

It was a fitting end to India’s miserable efforts; a no-ball from Sreesanth, which meant that AB de Villiers did not have to even attempt to hit the ball as

Greg Chappell - a post mortem: Part I

editor@cricketnext.com — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:12:26 +0530

As Sachin Tendulkar, India’s iconic cricket player and a national hero makes an unprecedented attack on Greg Chappell, we at CricketNext will take you down through memory lane. We had

Fifty-Fifty

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:43:53 +0530

Evenly poised, open contest, 50:50. At the end of an engrossing second day of the final third Test of the India-South Africa series, it was evident that this was going

Virtual reality: Take a Walk!

editor@cricketnext.com — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:00:43 +0530

In an EXCLUSIVE, CricketNext was fortunate to have got the two principal representatives - Mr Malcolm Speed, CEO of ICC and Mr Lalit Modi - Vice President of BCCI for

Tall dark man with spectacles

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:20:14 +0530

So Anil Kumble has finally called it a day in the ODIs. While everyone went expectedly sentimental over Jumbo’s decision, few really absorbed the innate inner character of this man

He came, he saw, and...

editor@cricketnext.com — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:56:28 +0530

He played a knock which was calibrated, chiseled and classily peppered with his characteristic traditional penchant of immaculate shot selection. Sachin Tendulkar made an emphatic statement to his swelling rank

Dark clouds at Durban!

editor@cricketnext.com — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:03:13 +0530

S Sreesanth, India’s new belligerent bully, kept looking up with sanguine hopes at the dark clouds hanging precariously above, creating imminent prospects of blurred vision or a sprightly shower, but