The biggest road party that one has ever attended had already had a smaller cousin just a few days earlier. The victory against Pakistan had seen enormous traffic at Marine Drive with people seemingly taking hours to just cross that 3km stretch in a car. But 3rd April 2011 was even bigger. The Pak win...

The start to the week (in Asia we start early) was all about a tiny line overstepped (in mid air that too, mind you.) and a tennis ball threatened to be rammed down the throat of the woman whose very job was to watch that same line carefully and to maintain the sanctity of that boundary. One of the requirements...

It's out in the open now. The BCCI is backing the Indian players, who have expressed their reservations about being party to the WADA anti doping measures. The reservations chiefly stemming from their privacy and security concerns, which, they felt would be compromised by the whereabouts rule. Are...

VVS Laxman is attributed the sobriquet of the man who single handedly sounded the death knell for the follow on. As usual Rahul Dravid has been overlooked even in this legacy. But frankly, the famous Kolkata partnership put the fear of god in most captains in general and Ricky Ponting in particular to...

PORT ELIZABETH: Harbhajan Singh is a worried man. Mumbai Indians are not doing well and he is not too sure what his role in the team is. The team is on the brink of ouster in IPL-2 and the Sardar knows that one or two wins won't mean anything for them "We've to win all," he says, sounding...

Both the MI v/s DDD match and the RRs v/s the CSK match seem to be following a similar pattern. Both teams batting first ended up scoring a smallish total against formidable batting opponents. Whereas the MI's batting fell apart from the word 'go' which the batters accepted as marching orders...

The previous week seems to be the one to have witnessed the passing of quite a few batons. Men's Tennis might have seen it on Sunday (a bit too early to call, admittedly), the Left parties passed the baton of the support to the Congress led UPA to the SP, and Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar passed one to...