Presenting BBC’s best player of 2019 – Ben Stokes

England’s success and star appeal of its players is a welcome change from the cloying subcontinent fixation that world cricket has run into A day before the final of the cricket World Cup this year, I was asked during a panel discussion to pick the team that I would like to win the coveted quadrennial […]

Going under the hammer

With the auctions of IPL 2020 se to take place , Patriot looks at the teams and who they should buy ahead of the start of the season On Thursday, December 19, the auction for the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League will go underway for the first time in Kolkata. This year 332 […]

Looking for new pastures

Patriot looks at some of the players who are most likely to make a move in the winter transfer window and the clubs which may line up to buy them Its already mid-December and football around Europe has already begun to shape up for a thrilling few months ahead. At the beginning of the season, […]

The Ace of Pace

India with four premier fast bowlers has now become the best pace bowling nation in the world. Patriot analyses how Indian cricket has always been dominated by batting superstars, be it Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid or Sourav Ganguly, and now Virat Kohli. But what about bowlers? Well, Indian bowling has been always dominated […]

The quiet warriors of Indian cricket that Virat Kohli forgot

Kohli’s skillset may not include a sense of history, but he certainly shouldn’t maul history instead The historians of Indian cricket, especially those reflecting on the sociology of its changing demography, might not be able to defend Virat Kohli against charges of showing a lack of sense of history. Kohli had said India began to […]

Anatomy of a loss

The Indian batting faltered on a sluggish wicket, and somehow managed to score a below par 148 in their 20 overs. At the end of the match, it was Bangladesh who emerged victorious as they chased down the target with four balls to spare. This was the first time that they beat India in T20, […]

The T20 challenge

IPL made T20 one of the most popular formats of cricket. India, ironically, is struggling to register the first-ever defeat from Bangladesh in a T20 match A major upset in a cricket field sets tongues wagging, a celebrity sports person becomes the butt of a joke. Castigating players is apparently a way to come to […]

England’s best, 100 games down

As the English Premier League 2019/20 season completes 100 games, here’s a look at which team stands where currently On 27th October, the 2019/20 season of the English Premier League completed 100 matches after 10 weeks of riveting footballing action. With the points table beginning to shape up, fans have already witnessed the highest of […]