COVER STORY
T20s have simplified the game, reduced it to its primary colours, bleached it of some of the cunning and subtlety and skill that made Test cricket such a sophisticated contest
Outlook Magazine - 21 June 2025
Innings/Outings
The Indian Premier League has grown into a behemoth. What lies behind its meteoric rise?
The 25-year-old is not new to captaincy and given time and patient grooming, he could prove to be a deserving successor to Rohit Sharma
One the greatest rivalries in the world of cricket has always been between India and Pakistan
As captains, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma were like fire and ice, chalk and cheese, but united by the desire to make their respective Test sides the best in the business
What drives the teenage cricket sensation from Samastipur?
From Kapil to Kohli, from Doordarshan to Disney+, the journey of Indian cricket has been both epic and intimate
India’s heartland is unearthing gem after cricketing gem. Heroes are emerging from unheralded quarters
Indian cricket is always bursting at the seams with prodigies, but if things don’t go their way soon, the downfall is often steep.
Women have gatecrashed a stag party, smashing their way through the sexist walls of bias and invisibility to live their cricket dreams, no more in the margins but in the spotlight.
The Indian Premier League has grown into a behemoth. What lies behind its meteoric rise?
The 25-year-old is not new to captaincy and given time and patient grooming, he could prove to be a deserving successor to Rohit Sharma
One the greatest rivalries in the world of cricket has always been between India and Pakistan
As captains, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma were like fire and ice, chalk and cheese, but united by the desire to make their respective Test sides the best in the business
What drives the teenage cricket sensation from Samastipur?
From Kapil to Kohli, from Doordarshan to Disney+, the journey of Indian cricket has been both epic and intimate
India’s heartland is unearthing gem after cricketing gem. Heroes are emerging from unheralded quarters
Indian cricket is always bursting at the seams with prodigies, but if things don’t go their way soon, the downfall is often steep.
Women have gatecrashed a stag party, smashing their way through the sexist walls of bias and invisibility to live their cricket dreams, no more in the margins but in the spotlight.
OTHER STORIES
From selection bias to systemic silence, casteism continues to shape who gets to play. Why diversity and inclusion in cricket remain elusive?
The arrival of cricket in the Northeast is not merely a story of infrastructure arriving late; it is a question of whether a game shaped by the centres of power can ever belong in a region that has long been made to feel peripheral to the Indian story
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah faces rebellion from within the National Conference. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha is breathing down his neck. His political rival, Mehbooba Mufti, is sharpening her attack
India’s GDP data has attracted considerable scrutiny in recent years - with the 2015 revision of GDP calculations adopted 2011-12 as the base year from 2004-05 and aligned with international norms.
Poem by Banu Mushtaq, an international Booker Prize-winning Kannada writer, lawyer and activist
Bollywood has been capitalising on cricket frenzy for years but with its current crisis of uninspired content, it will do well to reinvent itself like the sport.
After working as a journalist in Chile and later going into exile following the Pinochet coup, Isabel Allende turned memory and myth into fiction. She speaks to Vineetha Mokkil about the letter that became her first novel and the power of storytelling.
Cricket is more than a sport in India; it is a transistor-tuned journey into India's wins, childhood and nostalgia
