World Cup

World Cup: What all has changed from 1975 to 2015

February 8, 2015   in The Times of India
Lloyd

Cricket’s showpiece event is set to kick off next week but it’s as much about business as it is about the romance of the game. Sunday Times looks at everything that’s different about this World Cup – from new balls to eyeballs. The first cricket World Cup in 1975 was not even called the World […..]

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I didn’t watch 2011 World Cup final after getting out, nor did Viru: Sachin Tendulkar

November 6, 2014   in The Times of India
Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography 'Playing It My Way' released

They came dressed in formals, not in the familiar all-whites or the Men in Blue attire, etched indelibly in a generation’s memory as they scored a mind-boggling 88,218 runs in Tests and ODIs. But when they spoke, the Fab Four of Indian cricket – Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman – rolled […..]

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CUP TO CUP, AND THE NATION WITHIN

April 4, 2011 in Mumbai Mirror

Six years after India first won the cricket World Cup in 1983, the sociologist Ashis Nandy famously wrote, “Cricket is an Indian game, accidentally invented by the British.” With the euphoria over Dhoni’s triumph still washing over us, those words spring back. Cricket has long had a social and political dimension in this country and […..]

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