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EPL: Henry, Scholes and comebacks

If one was going to name a top five list of players to have played in the Premier League, Scholes and Henry would be in there.

For Indian shooting, it’s the end of an era

The Indian shooting squad for the Olympics was announced yesterday and it didn’t have a single woman shooter in the women’s 10m air rifle category.

F1: Jerez tells us Red Bull will be the winner again

At the end of the day the objective is to win the championship; so if it is done in an ugly car, so be it.

Is batting average the clue to finding the next Dhoni?

How many matches should India's younger lot get to prove themselves? A statistical analysis looks at what is a good number.

Jilted lover, rogue flirter: Sahara & BCCI’s Valentine’s Day drama

On V-Day, the dumped party is trying to resume ties with the miffed ex, which has in turn already announced multiple rebounds; things can never be better for a feisty tale of romance and cheating.

In the name of cricket, we market grief, violence and greed

Plots are hatched – not how to dismiss a batsman, but to capture viewers and create markets where they do not exist.

The 'Age Row' of a different kind

Age, like so many things in our society, remains a flexible category in the sub-continent. But this has to change.

Are you with John Terry or against him?

The FA's responsibilities are to look after English football for the greater good, irrespective of whether one man is hurt or not.

Left-arm spin: Its place in cricket history

When one scans the best bowling figures in an innings, one finds no left arm spinner in the top fifteen performances.

It only took six months to hit rock bottom

Cricket – the most beautiful game in the world – six months ago, and now, and six months hence — so much has changed.

Why did cricket have to answer to baseball?

We can only watch as T20 turns more and more young cricket lovers into one-dimensional followers of the game, not to mention one-dimensional players of the game.

Don's black and white farewell. How will Sachin walk away?

A Don Bradman documentary amazed the author and left him wondering -- when Sachin goes, what will we do?

Spot fixing: There is no more cowardly way to make a fortune

The three players have sinned, and have been punished. But the big bookies like 'Sanjay' are still at large. Tom Alter wants to see them in in jail for much, much longer than the players.

Without pride or prejudice, Laxman worships his own art

Laxman was exposed in England but any artiste, from Picasso to Pataudi, has been exposed – you have to be exposed, for an artist always takes risks.

Stuck on 99, Sachin shows you can take nothing for granted

When we watched him reach 94 at Mumbai, it was a lesson for us all – to fully realise how difficult it is to score one century... just one and he has done it 99 times.

We salute Sehwag, with a smile and a shake of the head

When all the criticism runs dry, there is Sehwag, still stroking the ball to all the most unexpected parts of the cricket field.

Yadav will impress, Zaheer and Ishant will be stop-gap

The questions are many – but the truth is that we enter a big, big Test with a strange fast bowling line-up.

A 100th century to save a match

If ever there was a time to prove his greatness, it is today. Not that Sachin needs to, but this a time gifted to him by the gods.

The link between Rajasthan in Lahli and India at Perth

Only when players remember the Ranji Trophy and all is stands for, will we return to our winning ways in Test matches.

The curse of being number one

The major differences between our being number one and World Cup champions and what we are now are the coach and the scheduling.

Cricket is played and won with a certain passion for the moment

Rajasthan, Australia, and Pakistan... you have showed us how to not only play cricket, but how to win cricket.

The Prince and the Pretender

Even now Nadal has much going for him; he merely needs to peak at the right time. Djokovic, however,isn't going anywhere either.

Sport in the time of YouTube

Virtually nothing escapes the Internet’s grasp. Television has been rendered a classic medium, in other words obsolete.

A Rocky Balboa moment

Like Sylvester Stallone’s character from the franchise about the boxing underdog, Federer managed to show us that he still had it in him to fight with dignity and to surprise us with how much he could still do.

The Enigma that is Rohit Sharma

Sharma is too precious a resource even for this powerful Indian batting line-up to waste. Nobody wants another Yuvraj Singh on their hands. Following this recent display of maturity, a long overdue Test debut – scuttled once before by injury – must surely be around the corner.

Kumar Sangakkara: from sportsman to statesman

Through his great speech at the MCC Spirit of Cricket lecture, Sangakkara, the player, has reinvented himself as a statesman.

Let's make a bad boy out of Laxman

I mean – for heavens’ sakes, even Duncan Fletcher, India’s new coach, has waded into his first controversy. It’s time the media made a blazing bad boy out of Laxman.

This series is far from over. We aren't the best in the world for nothing

While the margin of defeat was large for India, the manner of it wasn’t extraordinarily disappointing. The guys actually made it to the final session, and will derive comfort from the positives. This series is far from finished. These tears will dry on their own.

No dearth of talent, but India has to step up as a team

The culture of overvaluing and romanticising lone heroes needs to change, and it needs to change urgently.

Gavaskar, Shastri and Pataudi in line for a recall too

In a latest twist, the BCCI proposes to include Gavaskar and Shastri into the Test and ODI squad for the Australia series. Firstpost can now confirm that the shock inclusion of Dravid in the squad for the England series was part of a larger plan.