All posts tagged MS Dhoni

Nobody should be bigger than the team, not even Tendulkar.
Defeat and its consequences – India’s tour of Australia, 2011-12
January 16, 2012, 2 Comments

Four years ago, the WACA Ground in Perth was the scene of one of India’s finest test match victories. The loss in the ...

2011 in Review
December 30, 2011, 2 Comments

It was only in September, when Critical Twenties turned a year old, that I wrote a piece on the year in sport, and in th ...

XI Things learned from the Irani Trophy and the Champions League T20
October 6, 2011, Comments Off

I wanted write about the 1962-level disaster that was the Indian tour of England. The wounds are still raw though and th ...

From Venkat to Ashwin – Of three generations of cricketers from Madras
April 23, 2011, 1 Comment

For a generation that grew up on a staple-diet of televised cricket in the 1990s, Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan repr ...

The Ghosts of World Cups Past
April 11, 2011, 3 Comments

I have memories only from the 1992 World Cup onwards; when the cricket neurons in my brain were slowly growing and formi ...

World Champions 2011: We’ve come a long way
April 10, 2011, 3 Comments

A similar moment was the India-Sri Lanka semi-final at the 1996 World Cup. I watched as Tendulkar fell for 65, followed ...

M.S. Dhoni – An Appreciation
April 3, 2011, 4 Comments

It isn’t every day that we get to see greatness unfold before our eyes. At the Wankhede Stadium yesterday, Mahendra Si ...

India versus England – gripping, yet flawed
February 28, 2011, 13 Comments

As narratives go, the tie at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore between India and England was as compelling as any. Th ...

India win the Second Test and the series… thanks to me!
October 13, 2010, 1 Comment

India won the second test at Bengaluru thanks to me. Vijay’s first innings century was probably valuable. Zaheer a ...