Tag: Express Sports newsletter
Weekly Sports Newsletter: How T20 leagues will never throw up Test quality spinners
A couple of months back, the Pakistan Cricket Board’s very active social media team put out a ‘drool video’ for the fans of fantasy cricket….
U-19 World Cup: Using stump mic as telephone, Dhoni hairstyle and Mohammad Amir sighting
There’s this funny cricketing yarn from the 1999 under-19 Cricket World Cup that salutes the audacity and enterprise of an Indian player. That event in…
Weekly Sports Newsletter: Why Kohli and Rohit are like partners in a three-legged race
For a sport that grew on royal laps in the erstwhile princely states, palace intrigue has got institutionally enshrined into Indian cricket. Players have been…
Weekly Sports Newsletter: Dravid, Pujara and the dying art of batting time
There’s a priceless old nugget involving Rahul Dravid from Steve Waugh’s farewell series in 2003 that needs to be pulled out of the vault. At…
Weekly Sports Newsletter: How pacer Bumrah and drag-flicker Harmanpreet have changed India’s sporting identity
This week a bit of good news went largely unnoticed by a nation that truly loves cricket but also claims to care for hockey. The…
Weekly Sports Newsletter: India needs a Sehwag, Srikkanth kind of opener
This Indian team doesn’t have the kind of opener that makes fans subconsciously break into a run at the first sight of the stadium on…
Weekly Sports Newsletter: Why doesn’t India fear, or hate, New Zealand?
Dear Readers, What is so uniquely Kiwi? They expose your weakness, they make you look underprepared, they deny you glory on the biggest stage but…
Weekly Sports Newsletter: Sunday the new Friday, Dubai the new Sharjah
What do you write about on a Saturday morning when India is to take on Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday evening? Of course, about the…
Weekly Sports Newsletter: Why 150 kph young pacers make Indians misty-eyed
Dear Readers, Cricket fans of a certain vintage get misty-eyed when a young Indian pacer clocks 150 kph. For those mid-aged romantics, few pensioners too,…