THE BAT PACKER

Dear Cricket Gods, Please be kind. I am embarking on a journey to hopefully witness the Indian team make history in London by ending the...

“In the air, Sreesanth takes it, India win! Unbelievable scenes here at the bull ring!” “Dhoni finishes off in style. A magnificent...

I have been meaning to come back here to express my thoughts for a while. But life happened. Over the last 3-4 months a lot has happened...

I genuinely thought after my injury, I’ll be motivated as ever to be the best version of myself. The human mind however functions very...

"Good luck" "Have a great game" "Play well" We don't hear "Break a leg," in a sporting situation because you never know when that may...

I wish I had come up with the title for this article, but the truth is, this is just what Virat means. I highly recommend checking out my...

Batting is probably the cruellest discipline in any sport. In football, you make a howler; you have ample time to make things right. In...

We all love a bit of drama, don't we? You can't blame us as cricket fans to get sucked right into it as well. Headlines like: "Rohit...

As a kid growing up in the 90s, the only contests that mattered to me in sport were Wasim Akram vs Sachin Tendulkar Shoaib Akhtar vs...

After watching the boys fight and grind out an amazing result yesterday, my horrible memories from 2018 came flashing by. I had to write...

Why is consistency the hardest thing in life? When we hear legends across all walks of life talk about success, why do they emphasise...

While the entire world was going nuts over IPL, a few purists were waiting it out for you. Welcome back. Test Cricket, just like life,...

January 2020 - February 2020 Building Good Habits - The Zen State Of Mind After moving back to the UAE, I had given myself a few months...

This took me a while. Writing about things that happened to you and recalling how you felt is so much easier than dealing with what is...

How many times have we said that 2020 was the worst year of our lives? 2021 is still a troubling time in so many ways, the impact...

Dear Sachin, I don't know how you did what you did. It's superhuman/godlike if you ask me. You carried the weight of our expectations for...

Click here to read part 1. 2018-2019 With the monsoons approaching, we spent every Saturday and Sunday morning, 5:30 am - 7:30 am, at an...

When anyone asks me where I'm from, I say: Born in Hong Kong Raised in Dubai Made in Mumbai Mumbai is the most special city in the world...

To read part 1, click here: Vamos! With the weight of my failures on top of my existing 86 kgs, I couldn't have felt heavier; I spent...

After these experiences over the past 10 days, my mind figured out ways to make playing cricket happen. I went to a local cricket store...

Deflated and heartbroken, we started analysing the cost of this venture. The guilt, negativity, and everything else around crept in. We...

After the “Mayhem in Mohali,” it felt like the universe was writing the perfect fairy-tale story. A World Cup win on home soil was...

This day, that year. Despite the valiant efforts, the semi-final is surely now a distant dream. Or is it?. Us mortals, including me,...