Mallya was always enamoured of racing. As a school boy he rode a jeep up the steps of La Martinere, Calcutta and was a racing regular at both Barrackpore and Sholavaram circuits. A young Vijay Mallya even imported a Formula One car and drove in one of the races at Sholavaram.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN naive to think that the zamindars and jagirdars who have dominated cricket board politics for ever so long would roll over and die.
N SRINIVASAN'S CUMULATIVE SINS like chickens have come to roost. And they are now haunting and stalking the BCCI.
ONE OF THE UPSHOTS of the morally corrosive and hazardous Indian Premiere League is the unveiling of new gene pools of talent for Indian cricket.
IT IS UNCANNY how cricket has become a WMD (weapon of mass destruction) unleashed against the BJP, repeatedly altering the discourse of Indian polity and as a consequence derailing parliament twice now in rapid succession. Literally grabbing politics and parliament by the scruff of the neck and dominating media eyeballs.
AFTER ALL THE hullabaloo over the state of the pitches in the recently concluded India's series against the South Africans, it is clear as daylight that there is no secret sauce to batting against spin. It is work in progress at best using improvisation, technique, coming to the pitch of the ball, and adaptability to stay focused and batting for long hours.
As Ajinkya Rahane stamps his authority in the Indian battling line-up, we revisit the column by Sandeep Bamzai in which he writes why this diminutive batsman with all the bearing and poise of the Bombay School looks like the genuine article, if not the finished article.
DECEMBER 16 IS looming large on the radar. It will decide what course the 'flawed' Delhi Police case of 'money for fixing' against cricketers S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan will take from here on.
THE OBSESSION to be Miss Goody Two-Shoes with Pakistan is something that leaves me completely exasperated. Why can't we take a stand, a position and then not renege?
N. Srinivasan has lost his chair twice over -- as BCCI president and ICC supremo -- he has lost his team CSK for two years in the IPL. He cannot escape the dragnet after the latest shenanigan on using a London-based private spy agency to keep an eye on fellow BCCI members was revealed.
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