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July 23, 2019

India-Pakistan, cricket’s deadliest rivalry

Dainik Bhaskar When India play Pakistan in cricket it is like the classic Bollywood movie brought to the cricket field. The Bollywood story is of two brothers separated at birth who have developed into very different human beings, one saintly, the other a devil. But in the final scene they fight a  deciding battle, often […]
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Published on July 23, 2019 08:15

July 15, 2019

That World Cup finish

Dainik Bhaskar To understand England’s extraordinary victory in the World Cup we need to understand how the rules of the cricket work. We are faced with two sets of rules and two sets of rule makers. There are the laws of the game. And then there are the specific rules of the competition. In the […]
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Published on July 15, 2019 08:09

July 9, 2019

My latest podcast on Indian cricket

Listen to the piece I have recorded for the Insight Guides Travel Podcast series. It is about one of my great loves: cricket in India.  In episode five of the Insight Guides Podcast I tell the story of how one sport changed India’s position in world politics.  
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Published on July 09, 2019 08:31

July 7, 2019

Sport and politics in the 2019 cricket World Cup

Dainik Bhaskar Indian’s largest selling newspaper group. A bit of India bashing over Kashmir at cricket  History shows that is impossible  to keep politics out of sports. From dictators like Mussolini and Hitler to modern day democrats, sport has been used by politicians to further their cause. However, what happened during India’s match with Sri […]
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Published on July 07, 2019 03:20

July 3, 2019

June 28, 2019

Mihir Bose looks back on how Mumbai has changed since his youth

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Published on June 28, 2019 06:55

June 23, 2019

June 18, 2019

India-Pakistan cricket encounters

See my article in Dainik Bhaskar on Indian-Pakistan cricket encounters in World Cup cricket.
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Published on June 18, 2019 09:11

June 9, 2019

English cricket and a yellow book

Asian Lite – Viewpoint It is part of the enduring appeal of Wisden, the annual cricket almanack, now celebrating its 156 birthday, that it not only endures and is a book that every lover of the game wants to possess but has changed dramatically to reflect the times we live in. So, while there is […]
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Published on June 09, 2019 03:27

June 8, 2019

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