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Tuesday, March 31, 2026
TopicCricket commentary

Topic: Cricket commentary

IPL in 12 languages—bland English, spicy Punjabi, juicy Haryanvi. Which one’s your favourite?

What has made the outrageous exploits of IPL players on the field so much fun are the verbal antics of the commentary team in the box.

A part of Tiger Pataudi’s legacy is glossed over—cricket commentary

Indian Cricket: Then and Now captures the evolution of cricket in India. The book discussion was a gathering of old colleagues, each a bottomless pit of cricket content.

Sanjay Manjrekar to Gautam Gambhir, commentators failed too. But nobody’s talking about it

What the audience watching the 2023 World Cup at home often got from Indian commentators was patriotism in superlatives.

WPL historic but not without these commentators, umpires—’Sachin on microphone’, fun umpiring

In England, BBC TMS Radio made a point that all the top male commentators watched women's matches as well.

Sanjay Manjrekar wrong to bully Harsha Bhogle. Time to bring sanity back to commentary box

Sanjay Manjrekar tried to shut down Harsha Bhogle by saying he hadn’t played any first-class cricket, but sports punditry has never been about that.

On Camera

Nitish Kumar’s resignation leaves more than a political vacuum. Bihar women need to be paid

The Rajya Sabha is Kumar’s way of stepping outside the circuit through which Bihar’s women could have held him to the Rs 2 lakh promise.

RBI delays stricter trading loan rules as volatility climbs amid Iran conflict

The rules now take effect on 1 July instead of 1 April, the Reserve Bank of India said. New rules may raise cost of raising capital for proprietary trading firms & squeeze profits.

India developing lethal autonomous weapon systems, database of citizens’ crime risk—House Panel report

Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.