In June, we saw what happens when itinerant Indian cricket correspondents following Team India on the West Indies tour landed up at batting legend Brian Lara‘s house. On the current tour of England, two of them landed up at the offspinner Graeme Swann‘s. On top is the first paragraph of Sandeep Dwivedi‘s despatch, published in…
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When cricket journalists go to Brian Lara’s home
SHARANYA KANVILKAR writes from Bombay: Itinerant sports reporters usually tag along with their compatriots during assignments on foreign shores, partly because of the chummy nature of sports journalists but also because it makes sense, i.e. it is paisa vasool. Newspapers and magazines pay a decent-enough per diem these days, but it’s never enough to enable…
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