R Kaushik has wealth of experience as a cricket writer having worked for reputed organisations like News Time, Deccan Herald, Wisden, Wisden Almanack, Fox Sports (Australia) etc. He has covered six World Cups and is the author of the autobiography of cricket legend VVS Laxman.
Latest Stories of R Kaushik
ICC World Cup 2019: Final: The Wonderful Mr Kane Williamson
R Kaushik
| Monday, July 15, 2019, 08:25 [IST]
London, July 15: As he left after attending perhaps the most difficult press conference of his life, Kane Williamson must have been taken aback at the unusual show of appreciation from the normally impassive, oftentimes cynical, media corps. The sustained ...
ICC WC 2019: Final: The Baz hand in England's one-day jazz
R Kaushik
| Saturday, July 13, 2019, 20:23 [IST]
London, July 13: Four years ago, England found themselves at the crossroads. Their limited-overs cricket was in a shambles, a miserable 2015 World Cup campaign coming to a juddering halt in Adelaide when Bangladesh ended their interest in the ...
ICC WC 2019: England warm up to cricket's biggest show
R Kaushik
| Saturday, July 13, 2019, 09:39 [IST]
London, July 13: There is always a grand allure to the home team making it to the final of a major sporting event. It transports the competition to a different level, alters perceptions of audiences, generates tremendous interest among ...
ICC World Cup 2019: England vs Australia: The Aussie meltdown
R Kaushik
| Thursday, July 11, 2019, 22:06 [IST]
Birmingham, July 12: Barely an hour after putting India out of the competition on Wednesday, Trent Boult was asked which of England or Australia he preferred meeting in the World Cup final. New Zealand's swing king was quick on ...
ICC WC 2019: India vs New Zealand: Bitten Jadeja pieces together a masterclass
R Kaushik
| Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 21:44 [IST]
Manchester, July 10: The scything bat-twirl was very much in evidence, the Rajput substituting the sword with the willow he had wielded so dexterously. The synchronicity to his movements was as perfect as it had been when he was ...
ICC WC 2019: Kohli and Kane's World Cup reunion
R Kaushik
| Monday, July 08, 2019, 18:50 [IST]
Manchester, July 8: What are the odds of two lads who led their respective sides in the semifinal of an Under-19 World Cup going on to do likewise at the senior level, nearly 11 and a half years later? Not that ...
Rohit Sharma scripts his own space odyssey in ICC World Cup 2019
R Kaushik
| Sunday, July 07, 2019, 02:01 [IST]
Leeds, July 7: Space. It’s a word Rohit Sharma uses often. Only, to him, it isn’t a word, it’s a state of being. A state which he has carved for himself, an intangible that is working like a charm for ...
ICC WC 2019: Malinga: The gun Slinga-er still breathes fire
R Kaushik
| Friday, July 05, 2019, 18:08 [IST]
Leeds, July 5: He bears an uncanny resemblance to the great man. He walks and talks like him. And, once in a while, he turns the clock back and even bowls like him. Oh wait, he is him!To call ...
ICC WC 2019: Bumrah & Shami: India's pace twins striking fear in opponents
R Kaushik
| Wednesday, July 03, 2019, 08:05 [IST]
Birmingham, July 3: They once used to say, 'If Lillee don’t get you, Thommo will.”Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami aren’t quite Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson yet – who knows if they will ever get there, in fact – but ...
ICC WC 2019: The Laxman hand in Bairstow revival
R Kaushik
| Tuesday, July 02, 2019, 07:44 [IST]
Birmingham, July 2: Jonny Bairstow came into England’s high-stakes World Cup clash against India under a bit of a cloud. Despite two half-centuries, his overall form was anything but overwhelming, the impact innings conspicuously missing. During the absence of the ...
ICC WC 2019: India vs England: To take or not take, the DRS conundrum
R Kaushik
| Monday, July 01, 2019, 07:32 [IST]
Birmingham, July 1: Hindsight might suggest that it was a pivotal moment in the game, but that’s the beauty of hindsight, isn’t it? There is no gainsaying what course the contest would have taken had Virat Kohli flashed the 'T’ ...
ICC WC 2019: MS Dhoni: Standing up against the storm surge
R Kaushik
| Saturday, June 29, 2019, 18:55 [IST]
Birmingham, June 29: With Mahendra Singh Dhoni, you never know what’s going on. News of his retirement from Test cricket came in the form of an email from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), minutes after ...