The curious case of Umar Akmal on January 31, 2018What makes an enduringly great batsman is a puzzle that may leave the very best of cricket brains struggling for answers. Even experts as masterly as Sir Don Bradman and as gifted as the great Garfield Sobers, failed to provide soul convincing formulas. At first, I wondered that a batsman, armed with a strong faultless […]
The death of cricket on December 26, 2017Not too long ago, during an excavation of a tastefully versed cricket literature at the old Heffers bookstore at Cambridge; I came across ‘And God Created Cricket’, a fascinatingly engaging book, penned, brilliantly by Simon Hughes. So fascinated was I, that I inhaled 300 pages teeming with cricket’s most memorable moments, in just 48 hours. […]