I have been a cricketer, a cricket writer, an author whose first book had strong references to cricket, a scion of a cricketing family...one can go on re-establishing one’s connections with cricket. The result is inevitable: as cricket is now...

The Indian Premier League has, in one stroke, dissolved the boundaries that get accentuated when teams that play become ‘nationalistic’ in colour. Now we see cricket above narrow considerations of national boundaries.