Domestic cricket deserves far more attention than it gets
The tournament that produces India’s Test players is followed by almost nobody. That is a choice, not an inevitability.
J. R. Patel ·
Opinion and argument on Indian sport
Argument and analysis on Indian sport — what the coverage keeps missing, which debates are worth having, and the cases worth making plainly.
The calendar is full. Something has to give.
Franchise leagues, international windows and player workload cannot all keep expanding at once. The arithmetic stopped working some time ago.
J. R. Patel ·
India’s Olympic pipeline needs school sport, not just academies
Elite academies find talent that has already surfaced. School sport is what makes it surface in the first place.
J. R. Patel ·
Esports belongs in the sports pages
The objection was never really about whether it is a sport. It was about who was watching.
J. R. Patel ·
Against the tyranny of the highlight clip
Sixes and screamers travel. The parts of a contest that actually decide it usually do not.
J. R. Patel ·