Full text of Kevin Pieterse's Pataudi Memorial Lecture in Bengaluru
The win at Edgbaston was not the first time an Indian team had vanquished Pakistan in an ICC competition. Rajneesh Gupta surveys the landscape of India-Pakistan encounters in ICC contests.
'The BCCI is -- and always has been, across successive dispensations -- allergic to criticism.' 'It has used the 'control' it enshrines in its name to destroy anyone who has dared to point fingers at its functioning,' says Prem Panicker, the distinguished cricket writer.
'I'm a rascal, I'm going to play a paramahansa?!'
A summary of the day's matches in the Vijay Hazare One-day tournament.
'If fame, money and comfort are the only factors that drive us, then we are playing cricket for entirely the wrong reasons.'
An upcoming film on Mohammad Azharuddin promises to be a potboiler, though not a true biopic.
'People ask me if I miss living a normal life, since I don't have privacy, and I tell them I don't want to have a normal life. I want people standing outside my house, I want to be loved by them. I have been fortunate enough to live like a star for 25 years and I would like to die as a star.' Shah Rukh Khan, unplugged.
As India gets set to play its 500th Test, Rajneesh Gupta presents India's memorable Test victories at home.
With fake products and machine-made mirrors making its way into the market, an age-old art form is under threat.
A summary of the day's play in the Ranji Trophy matches played across the country.
Prem Panicker, on the Rediff chat, delves on what went wrong for Team India and what to expect from Sunday's trans-Tasman World Cup final.
