An account of the night before the beginning of a new Test series

By Sidhanta Patnaik

The night before the first day of an important Test series is a period when the mind witnesses...

Without Harsha Bhogle, Star Cricket might have missed a plot

By Sidhanta Patnaik

ESPNSTAR is among the very few well perceived cricket broadcasters in India for...

India go into the MCG on Monday with bitter-sweet memories of Boxing Day Tests

By Sidhanta Patnaik

Last year at Durban in South Africa, with scores of 38 and 96 in two innings,...

Corporate world will wait for Dravid to transform into a motivational speaker

By Sidhanta Patnaik

Knowing Rahul Dravid’s overall personality in the public domain the well-scripted...

A well-deserved honour for history-making captain and master strategist

By Sidhanta Patnaik

Ajit Wadekar’s legend as an Indian cricketer and his overall contribution to the game...

Manoj Tiwary's Chennai hundred gives Bengal a new hero after Sourav Ganguly

By Sidhanta Patnaik

Before Sunday, the last time a Bengal batsman had scored a century in One-Day International...

Crowds throng to see Sanath Jayasuriya

By Sidhanta Patnaik

A relaxed atmosphere of informality drew most of us from the confines of our homes to the...

A Sehwag innings is a nightmare for the bowlers and cricket writers!

My vocabulary has dried up and my English is not as limitless as Sehwag’s batting to add a few more to the syllables. This is why his innings...

Two penny, too many! Long live cricket's armchair critics!

By Sidhanta Patnaik

We the armchair critics are the biggest sports marketer and it is our largest singular contribution...

Open letter to Virat Kohli on his anger against umpire Sudhir Asnani's verdict

Virat Kohli was probably unfortunate to be given lbw by umpire Sudhir Asnani in the third ODI at Ahmedabad. But his reaction to the umpire’s...