We pass the last row of the concrete edifices and embark upon a kilometre-long road. To the natives, this is the ‘highway’ - the closest to the asphalt miracles of the big cities. This road is significant in another way. It connects suburban...

Allan Donald went over and around the wicket in Johannesburg, 1997, and battered Steve Waugh’s body in a manner befitting of great fast bowlers. Steve Waugh did not flinch a bit, eschewed the hook shot, and kept taking them on the body, intent...

Sourav Ganguly has made it back into the Indian team. Call it fate. Call it luck. Call it what you may, but the effervescent southpaw will be in his all whites come Johannesburg, December 15. Here is a man who decided to go loggerheads with Greg...

Steve Waugh once famously told Brett Lee: ‘If you get Dravid great; if you get Tendulkar brilliant; if you get Laxman it’s a miracle.’ The great Australian was speaking from hard experience. Laxman, a very good player at the most...

India got walloped again at Capetown. That is, after having South Africa zero for two and forty something for four. They can still salvage a draw in the series, which is highly unlikely given the team’s limp showing in the first two one dayers....

The transformation has been rapid. The god who could do no wrong is showing signs of mortality. To the faithful, that hurts. Sachin Tendulkar was the ultimate cricketing machinery, an amalgam of peerless skill and rock hard resolve. For seventeen...

When Mike Tyson burst into the heavyweight boxing scene in the mid 1980s, he was swiftly branded the saviour of heavyweight boxing. Not since Ali had someone captured the imagination of the boxing fraternity and sold out stadiums by his mere presence in...

In Quezon City, October 1, 1975, two of the greatest sports personalities of the 20th Century squared off in what was to be the final chapter of boxing’s greatest trilogy. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier provided a grand spectacle for 14 three minute...