For the Times, London, a column on a series for the ages:
‘This was a Test so fluctuating in fortune, so rich with the accumulated alluvium of the summer’s sessions and days, so alive with possibility, that even as Mohammad Siraj’s brilliance brought it to a fevered conclusion it hinted at a beginning.’
For ESPNcricinfo, an essay on what turned out to be Virat Kohli’s final first-class outing.
‘Virat Kohli is as Delhi as a fight. To tell a Delhiite that Kohli is not one of them is to say a reflection lies.’
For Mint Lounge, a cover story on Vinesh Phogat, her journey from a street agitation against a powerful sexual predator, to within a whisker of an Olympic gold, and home to Balali.
‘This was a heartbreak so large, on a margin so paltry, it was beyond measurement on any sporting Richter. Its particular cruelty was that it happened to the most courageous sportsperson her country has ever produced, which was also its feeble consolation.’
For the Economist’s 1843 magazine, a long profile ahead of the 2024 general elections.
For The Cricket Monthly’s series on the greatest one-dayers ever played: a long essay on the haunting semi-final at the 1999 World Cup, plus a shorter one on the heartwarming epic in Karachi, 2004.
A heap of columns for the Hindustan Times, one every third day or so.
A few reports for Al Jazeera.
A curtain-raiser for the Guardian.
Balls of the century for ESPNcricinfo’s The Cricket Monthly. At No. 8, Irfan Pathan in Karachi, 2006. At No. 4, Shane Warne at Edgbaston, 2005.
Delhi in the time of coronavirus. A dispatch for the Economist’s 1843 magazine.
How Assam 2012 came into being.
A four-year investigation.
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