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Cheteshwar Pujara to marry

Cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara will be tying the knot with his fiancee Puja Pabari on February 13.

Cricketers ready to go the longest yard on the greens

Switching to golf is a natural progression for many cricketers. Given the somewhat overlapping skill sets, the transition isn't difficult. Ultimately, it boils down to whacking a small, hard ball. There's one crucial difference, though — the one in golf is stationary. Kaushik Chatterji reports.

Fauja didn't like what he saw

When Fauja Singh starts rambling away in his Punjabi, it's hard to stop him. Just like when he runs. During a routine television session with his son, Fauja first saw a sea of people running. Shail Desai reports.

Pujara's rapid-fire round before English test

The transformation: Saurashtra batsman Cheteshwar Pujara shifts gears with a fiery unbeaten 261 before ODIs. Subhash Rajta reports.

Smiling through the pain barrier

How did Dhoni find the time and inclination to indulge in such a frivolous activity when the whole country was furiously debating whether his time was up as skipper? Subhash Rajta writes.

Greig hailed as ‘godfather’ of modern cricket

The cricket world on Sunday paid tribute to former England Test skipper and broadcaster Tony Greig, remembering him as “the godfather of modern cricket” due to his influence in shaping the game.

Under-pressure Indians will be more aggressive

A cold wave is blowing across the sub-continent, but Dhoni and company are surely feeling the heat. After their loss in the first T20 of the series, it is clear that India will not win this series also. Inzamam Ul-Haq reports.

Foresight not BCCI's forte

Right through the England series, MS Dhoni blamed transition for the poor results. For a team whose stalwarts were at the fag end of their careers, that was always on the cards. Anand Sachar reports.

Will India learn from history?

A money-spinning, coloured-clothing series driving a wedge between the country's cricket structure; legends of the game walking away at the same time; and a captain once hailed as the saviour losing his grip on reality. Rohit Bhaskar writes.

Happily never after

Three of Indian cricket's greats called it quits but none of them bade farewell at any of the venues they had lorded over for years. N Ananthanarayanan reports.

Captain cold

He was India's coolest skipper, now he's just stone cold. It's time India and BCCI look beyond MS Dhoni, at least as Test skipper. N Ananthanarayanan writes.

Greatest opener, courtesy Sidhu's neck strain

It was circumstance and chance, a case of being at the right place at the right time, which got Sachin Tendulkar to open the innings for India in ODIs and the world to witness the batsman go on to become the most prolific cricketer in the format. MVL Manikantan reports.

Sachin Tendulkar: Man who became god

It did not take much for the cricket pundits to spot a genius in Sachin Tendulkar after he made his international debut in a Test match in Karachi Nov 15, 1989. More than two decades later, he has gone on to be one of the greatest batsman the world will ever see.

The cricket drama that brings back the Kerry Packer days

Three decades after the release of the Australian TV docu-drama 'Bodyline', the small screen Down Under is once again witness to the portrayal of a real-life cricket drama, though of more recent vintage.

2000-2010 was a great decade: Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar believes that the single biggest change in cricket between when he started playing for India in 1989 and today is the laptop. “It has altered everything,” Tendulkar said in an exclusive interview to Hindustan Times. Soumya Bhattacharya reports.
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