Fifteen degrees of freedom
Does chucking give bowlers an unfair advantage? I don't see how. No one has ever argued that a particular bowler turns the balls too much or that he bowls too quickly; it is difficult to understand what unfairness there may be in deriving those same outcomes by a higher bend of one's arm, says Ashwin Mahesh.
February 13 2005

New power, old rules
In the age of marketing hype, it is natural that India wields more authority than other cricketing nations. But Indian authorities, like their predecessors who controlled many aspects of the game, will face the same criticisms of past if they are not seen to offer a more respectable basis for decision-making than overt power, says Ashwin Mahesh.
January 09, 2005

Ideas for a Test World Cup
The increasing attraction of one-day cricket, and the long periods over which Test rankings are calculated are taking the excitement out of comparing teams in the longer form of the game. A number of spirited changes are needed to make the comparisons more immediate and the claim to championship status more definite.
Monday, June 21 2004

India-Pak ODIs - a baker's dozen
These matches have been selected for various reasons (viz)., closeness of contest, great individual performances, water-shed events and all have been exciting, if not always great, matches. A perfect curtain-raiser. Anantha Narayanan looks back. Read on...
Tuesday, Mar 9 2004

Connecting, buffering, playing ...
The sounds of the game - on radio first, then on TV and more recently on the internet - have over the years found a permanent home in my imagination and forged memories of the unseen that transcended reality. My earliest memories of this love affair are of a red dot, flickering unpredictably and agonizingly as the radio struggled to catch the passing voices in the wind. Ashwin Mahesh remembers growing up with cricket.
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