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The MMC Tennis School, Nungambakkam
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 7:43pm MST by Ghanshyam Nair
You know you're in India when the wall around a tennis school has pictures of Sania Mirza, Roger Federer and a bunch of cricketers.You know you're in Chennai when Cheeka and Sadagopan Ramesh are two of the cricketers. -
Tendulkar, Coventry and the contours of greatness
Posted: February 26th, 2010, 10:04am MST by Ghanshyam Nair
"At a time when immediacy masquerades as relevance in sport, a nuanced understanding of true greatness evades us. It takes something as monumental as what Sachin Tendulkar achieved in Gwalior against a South African side of no little quality to prompt us to filter out the shrill absurdities and begin to examine the contours of real greatness." So begins today's editorial in the newspaper I work for. I disagree with the point it makes, the one about immediacy and relevance. I don't think too many people with an interest in cricket, or in any other sport, would... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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Where were you?
Posted: February 24th, 2010, 7:49pm MST by Ghanshyam Nair
Today, Sachin Tendulkar made 200 in a one day international. First time anyone's done that.You know all that. What you may not know, and this is important, is what I was doing when he went about his business.The first part of his knock I spent in office. Where everyone, except me, was watching him bat on TV. If you're a regular reader of my other blog, you'd know why I wasn't watching. And no, I didn't even watch him bat left-handed on the glass of my cubicle. That would have been an interesting answer to the "what were you... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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What I dream about when I dream about Tendulkar
Posted: February 17th, 2010, 5:46pm MST by Ghanshyam Nair
A few months ago, I awoke from a disturbing dream. I dreamed of waking up. Of being woken up. By my mum. Who held a newspaper. Whose front-page headline announced that Sachin Tendulkar was dead. I don't know what set the dream off. The details were fuzzy, but I saw clearly in the obituary that he had died aged 37. Which I guess was my mind playing around with a fact pulled from my memory - Victor Trumper's age when he died of Bright's Disease. Once I'd properly woken up and reassured myself that Tendulkar was still around, I... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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The old scoreboard at University Union
Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 10:42am MST by Ghanshyam Nair
The Madras University Union ground only hosts lower division league cricket these days. It wasn't always so - luminaries like Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Subramaniam Badrinath and (no, really) Noel David have played here in the past.When they played, they'd have seen their runs and wickets recorded on this scoreboard, this joyous contraption that requires the scorer to clamber up a ladder. Now, the scoreboard's skeleton stands unused, hidden from view of the players by a newly constructed - and usually empty - spectator gallery. The scoreboard they now use is smaller, less cumbersome, and far less... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...