Cricket — Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

One March morning in Auckland

The day Sachin Tendulkar first opened

Cricketing star, mythical hero – MSD's value impossible to pin down

Dhoni the batsman has been subjected to a glut of analysis. Dhoni the wicketkeeper and Dhoni the tactician have been woefully let down by the stats.

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanMarch 18, 2019MS Dhoni, cricket, Rishabh Pant, Virat KohliComment

Two 153s, twenty years apart

Both unbeaten. Both sealed with a four. Both anointed as among the greatest Test innings of all time

‘There’s nothing wrong with being gay’

Six golden words that left an impression

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanFebruary 14, 2019Joe root, Shannon Gabriel, homophobia, Brendon mccullum, Sarfaraz ahmedComment

Chennai 1999 – a retrospective

The Test that took so much away. Yet a Test that gave so much back.

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanFebruary 3, 2019Chennai 1999, Sachin Tendulkar Comment

India. Pakistan. Chennai. 1999

A look back at an extraordinary day of cricket

Windies rekindle emotions of yore

Every once in a while, a West Indian cricketer or team will do something so extraordinary that everyone will take note

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanJanuary 29, 2019west indies, Shimron Hetymer, Kemar Roach, England, Jason HolderComment

History: India's first series win in Australia

The end of a long wait. Perhaps the beginning of something special

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanJanuary 9, 2019Virat Kohli, Ravi Shastri, Mayank Agarwal Comment

F is for Fast

When it comes to India and fast bowling, Ishant, Shami and Bumrah have turned 2018 into year we are all twelve

Four Kohli fours…

You are ten again. You are eighteen again. You are twenty-six again. These three fours have kicked in so many memories.

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanDecember 18, 2018Virat Kohli, Perth 2018 Comment

That Austalgic feeling…

A longing for a time when cricket was at its most spectacular just before the crack of dawn

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanDecember 14, 2018Richie Benaud, Daddles, Sanjay Manjrekar, WACA, MCGComment

Prithvi Shaw’s Tendulkarine rise

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanOctober 23, 2018Prithvi Shaw, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sanjay ManjrekarComment

Rohit Sharma – the joy and the torment

Rohit Sharma is so good that Rohit Sharma is invariably not as good as he can be

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanSeptember 29, 2018Rohit Sharma, Asia Cup, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mike Hussey Comment

Kohli or nothing

It is a tribute to Kohli’s extraordinary form that he raises hopes of a win even when the chances are so slim

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanSeptember 4, 2018Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Sachin TendulkarComment

The great grand-uncle of comebacks

So remarkable was this turnaround that, by the end of the match, it was India with a settled look and England with the uncertainties

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanAugust 24, 2018Hardik Pandya, Virat Kohli, Cantankerous Indian UncleComment

Kohli's will must find a way

Such is Kohli’s form he could let loose an innings of such incandescence that no set of bowlers will be able to stop him from winning India the Test

cricket, sportSiddhartha VaidyanathanAugust 6, 2018Virat Kohli, James Anderson, Edgbaston, Sunil Gavaskar, Iqbal Qasim, Vernon PhilanderComment