All posts tagged Sport

The Charm of Golf
October 6, 2010, No Comments

Who says golf is staid and boring? The Ryder Cup, held this year at the splendid Celtic Manor Resort in Wales, provided ...

Gandhi and Sport
October 2, 2010, 7 Comments

Celebrating Gandhi Jayanti, October 2nd, 2010 On the face of it, drawing a link between M.K. Gandhi and sport seems inco ...

The Return of Orthodox Off-Spin
September 27, 2010, 2 Comments

Classical finger spin bowling – particularly the right arm off-spin variety – has returned to the fore in recent tim ...

The Classy Bulgarian
September 20, 2010, 2 Comments

Dimitar Berbatov lit up Old Trafford with a glorious hat-trick that gave Manchester United a 3-2 victory against Liverpo ...

The Indo-Pak Express
September 11, 2010, 3 Comments

I was hoping to tell the tale of a fourth Indian Grand Slam champion. Unfortunately, Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani par ...

Spot-Fixing at Lords
August 29, 2010, 2 Comments

A week after having waxed lyrical about the precocity of Mohammad Amir’s talents, it is utterly depressing to report o ...

The Prodigious Mohammad Amir
August 21, 2010, 3 Comments

Watching Mohammad Amir bowl in Pakistan’s recent test series’ against Australia and England has been a supreme delig ...

The Dutch Devolution
August 17, 2010, 5 Comments

There is something utterly alluring about the Dutch and its football that has attracted me to it over the years. Maybe, ...