Saurabh Somani

blogs from Pondicherry

The 100th Hundred: It had to happen this way
It had to happen this way. One year of mounting hysteria. A team that climbed a once-unattainable high only to take a flying leap off it into a seemingly unending abyss. Form deserting not just him, but most of the trusted mates around him, who had helped in getting to that high. And always, the mou...
Posted on 18 March 2012 | 12:27 am
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Stranger, Legend, Martyr - Champion
"Rahul Dravid gets a raw deal" - this was the headline that I saw in the newspaper after the Indian selectors had picked the team for the 1996 World Cup. The words have stuck with me. Not because he scored 95 on his Test debut at Lord's. Sourav Ganguly scored a century. Not because he scored 145 and...
Posted on 11 March 2012 | 12:00 am
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Fighter, Foreman, Painter, Priest
One of the shortest articles I've ever written - wrote it before the India-Australia series started. Seems a lifetime ago now... Virender Sehwag walks into a gladiatorial arena. There's a yearning need to establish who is the greater destroyer in his battle. And when Sehwag walks in, the arena is th...
Posted on 9 January 2012 | 10:28 am
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