Indian - Journalist | July 19, 1961 -
I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.
Harsha Bhogle
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Cliches are cliches because they are true.
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I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come and watch me play. He used to love watching me play.
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Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.
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Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.
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Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.
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Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.
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Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.
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Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.
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For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.
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Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.
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Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.
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