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RETROFIT by Sandeep Bamzai: Hedonism & Hubris -- winner Mallya loses it all

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.

March 18, 2016

RETROFIT by Sandeep Bamzai: BCCI vs Lodha -- Pious piranha under the cosh

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.

March 02, 2016

SAATH KHOON MAAF: End of BCCI as we know it, by Sandeep Bamzai

N SRINIVASAN'S CUMULATIVE SINS like chickens have come to roost. And they are now haunting and stalking the BCCI.

February 05, 2016

RETROFIT: IPL Ke Side Effects by Sandeep Bamzai

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.

February 01, 2016

RETROFIT by Sandeep Bamzai: Lightning does strike twice, with BJP & 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.

December 29, 2015

RETROFIT by Sandeep Bamzai: The Dance of Spin

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.

December 15, 2015

With a unique synthesis of classical style & technical perfectitude, Rahane keeps the Bombay School alive

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 07, 2015

SPECIAL REPORT By Sandeep Bamzai: The Great Fixing Conspiracy & Great Contradictions

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.

December 07, 2015

RETROFIT by Sandeep Bamzai: Forget being Miss Goody Two-Shoes with Pakistan

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?

November 27, 2015

RETROFIT by Sandeep Bamzai: SPY vs SPY in the mad BCCI world

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.

November 21, 2015

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