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Other Photoessays
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Cricket 2008
And then there were three. The year saw two of the Fab-Five retire, and if MSD took the team to new heights, Dravid's disappointments with the bat were made up by Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag
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Sports 2008
India had their best Olympics ever, winning three medals, including the country's first gold in an individual event. There was lots of good news, including the fact that to get rid of KPS Gill as the president of the Indian Hockey Federation, they got rid of the federation itself!
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Smells Like Team Spirit
The young Indian team in transition won back the Border-Gavaskar trophy in style. The series was won 2-0, but there were many moments other than elation -- of drama, tragedy, action and emotion...
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Four More Overs
Ferozeshah Kotla, New Delhi, November 2, 2008. The last day of the Test match in which Laxman and Gambhir hit double tons. But it would be best remembered as Anil Kumble's last Test
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Mud Into Bronze
Sushil Kumar has practised at the Sat Pal Akhara for the past 10 years. With sheer determination, he wrestled his way to a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics. A look at how he still spends his days.
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Aurora Borealis
They have been there, done that.
But the thirst for gold is never-ending. And so it will be at Beijing. Again.
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2007: Cricket
From the lows of the World Cup to the highs of the Twenty20, from the mother of all comebacks to the most inexplicable crumbling of the Wall, from the adrenalin of youth and Yuvraj's six sixes to the two new captain cools...
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2007 In Sports
It was a Chak De India year for Chess, Hockey, Archery, while Sania and Lee-Hesh remained in limelight and Baichung Bhutia got some competition from Bob Houghton...
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2006: The World Of Sports
If 2005 was tennis sensation Sania Mirza's year, 2006 belonged to Saina Nehwal, but it would perhaps best be remembered for Zidane's head-butt in the world-cup finals...
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The 1940s
Those titans in whites in black and white: a sampling of some of the rare photographs from The Illustrated History of Indian Cricket, many of which have never been seen in public before.
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