Avijit Ghosh
05 June 2010, 08:34 PM IST
Team India lost convincingly. Once again. This time to Sri Lanka. Now we can pack our bags and lick our wounds. We lost three of the four games we played in this tournament; two of them to Zimbabwe. Do you remember a more pathetic performance in recent years? ...
Avijit Ghosh
03 June 2010, 08:27 PM IST
Team India's season of shame continues. If there is anything like humiliation on a cricket field, then this was it. Imagine losing to Zimbabwe in consecutive games, and this time with more than 11 over to spare. The winners even claimed the bonus point with...
Avijit Ghosh
7 days ago
The inevitable happened a few hours ago. Sri Lanka demolished India by 10 wickets at Galle. The sorry performance of MS Dhoni and company was in stark contrast to Pakistan’s super first day first show against Australia at Leeds. The key point is this:...
Avijit Ghosh
27 June 2010, 10:08 PM IST
Every World Cup needs a game that becomes a forever photograph in the mind’s eye. On Sunday evening, the world got that game. But for all the fabulous goals scored in the frenetic pre-quarters encounter, the Germany-England game will be equally remembered and...
Avijit Ghosh
25 May 2010, 05:50 PM IST
The 80-odd thrillers that James Headley Chase wrote were in essence ethical fables of men with negotiable morals and women who offer their bodies and take your soul. Those novels had a recurrent, subterranean theme: crime never pays. Often their protagonists...
Avijit Ghosh
13 July 2010, 03:08 PM IST
Thomas Muller has received the Golden Boot and Diego Forlan has earned the Golden Ball. But it's undeniable that Paul the Octopus was the real star of the 2010 football World Cup. No living creature was as much loved and lampooned as the invertebrate from...
Avijit Ghosh
16 June 2010, 04:41 PM IST
For the first 55 minutes of Brazil's World Cup opener against North Korea, I tried hard to look for the Brazil I have always loved. A few instances of Robinho's cute but ineffective showboating notwithstanding, I found precious little. Crosses floated more in...
Avijit Ghosh
03 July 2010, 03:44 PM IST
It never really needed any kind of confirmation, but then this is it. Late Friday night we saw why football is the greatest game in the world, and, also why it always will be. No other sport evokes so many emotions so fervently and so honestly across the...
Avijit Ghosh
21 June 2010, 07:02 PM IST
When Luiz Felipe Scolari took over as coach of a flailing Brazil side for the 2002 World Cup, he brought in a bunch of unpleasant ideas. He wanted the team to commit fouls and play ugly football if it helped the Selecaos regain the most cherished trophy in the...
Avijit Ghosh
14 June 2010, 08:46 PM IST
On Sunday, the impossible happened at Durban’s Moses Mabhida stadium in South Africa. Germany played the most appetising and pretty-as-you-please football of the 2010 World Cup yet. And that includes Argentina’s performance in its opening game, barring Lionel...
Avijit Ghosh works as a senior assistant editor at The Times of India in Delhi. Born in Agartala, he grew up in different small towns of Bihar and Jharkhand. He is addicted to films, music, cricket and football. He has written two books: "Bandicoots in the Moonlight", a novel, and "Cinema Bhojpuri", a book on films.
The views expressed in Addictions are the author´s own.
