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The Long Room
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One hand writing, one clapping
When I started writing about cricket, I used to think that the real dilemma lay in switching from fan to writer, as if some neat line divided the two preoccupations, and that somehow the latter operated on a higher plane. Writers had fans in their essence, but I imagined they saw and wrote about things "ordinary" fans didn't pick up
Osman Samiuddin
Men of the people
Most islands in the West Indies require you to shell out a departure tax, a fee of around US $30, usually paid after checking in for your flight. Waiting in a queue at St Kitts airport, at the end of the third India v West Indies Test, I had the grand fortune of being sandwiched between Clive Lloyd and Gordon Greenidge, as colossal a pair as any in cricket legend
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
Sorcerer and apprentice
A game consisting of clearly delineated individual contests, cricket seems to contain huge potential for the creation and maintenance of personal rivalries. Most of them, however, are low-key and intimate, lost in the corporate struggle. Who remembers who dismissed or punished whom last time, or the time before?
Gideon Haigh
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Archives
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November 21, 2006
No chat, no Ashes
Taunts and insults are as much a part of cricket as bats and balls, and never more so than during the Ashes
Simon Briggs
Magic and chaos
A familiar madness has visited Pakistan cricket again. But all is not lost
Kamran Abbasi
September 1, 2006
Old school tie
The Nawab was a legend at school. Then, all these years later, I met him for the first time
Edward Craig
An over with Warnie
Facing an over from Shane Warne and living to tell the tale
Jenny Thompson
Two beginnings
Two memorable debuts from the 1996 Lord's Test
Harsha Bhogle
The Unenglishman
Pietersen would have us believe he is as English as the next guy. Hardly
Paul Coupar
Home advantage
What exactly is a sporting wicket? Home advantage is nothing to be apologetic about; it's another challenge
Mukul Kesavan
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