Mar1

… but bloody good with a bat!

You might have gathered the impression that yours truly is not particularly fond of cricket. Just so you don’t go away with the wrong impression, “I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT”! It’s crazy. It takes too many people to play it, it takes all day to play (not 20-20, of course) and it’s rules are confounding. But […]

Feb28

Too geeky or too snooty?

Considered as a whole, South Asia is easily the world’s most populous entity, with India and Pakistan alone accounting for well over a billion people. So how come there are so few desi sportspersons of any note (barring our cricketing demigods, of course)? There was a time when our part of the world was home […]