My Favourite Match

My Favourite Match: When Anil Kumble scripted history and brought Feroz Shah Kotla to its feet

Not every day do you get to witness history. For me, Anil Kumble running through the Pakistan batting on a chilly Delhi day in 1999 would be memorable.

My Favourite Match: A forgotten classic in Dhaka marked with a Sourav Ganguly special

Ganguly would go on to lead India and change Indian cricket forever, but for me, the embers of self-belief were first stoked on that January day when India pulled off a then-world record chase against Pakistan. The first full match that (I think) I ever watched is also my (well, almost) favourite.

My Favourite Match: When Sourav Ganguly and Co stopped the Aussie juggernaut and ushered in a new era in Indian cricket

Sourav Ganguly had taken over the reins of Team India after the fallout of the match-fixing saga around a year prior to this match, but it was with this victory that he had finally announced himself as a leader, and ushered in a new era in Indian cricket.

My Favourite Match: Remembering NatWest Trophy 2002 final, the night Indian cricket broke into new dawn

13 July, 2002 - when the Indian cricket team defeated England, cancelled the inevitable and gave me a reason to fall deeper in love with cricket.

My Favourite Match: A tie, a lie and complete disregard for maths - How Australia vs South Africa '99 World Cup semi-final ruined my childhood

For a generation of Indians, the epic 1999 World Cup semi-final between Australia and South Africa remains one of the foremost matches we were heavily invested in as a neutral, or perhaps that’s the one game we remember for its sheer ludicrousness.

My Favourite Match: How Sachin Tendulkar’s epic 136 against Pakistan in Chennai taught me a thing or two about Test cricket

For an eight-year old boy, the complexities of Test cricket was hard to grasp, and understanding ODI cricket was much simpler. That was until India played Pakistan in a Test series at home in 1999.