Sitting next to the genial, self-effacing Arthur Ashe in the old press box at Wimbledon more than two decades ago, and watching a match between a baseliner and a player who was not only relentlessly aggressive but seemed to believe that a single lost point would at once consign him to hell — although he was losing and losing badly — I turned to Ashe and said, “All the aggression doesn’t seem to have helped.”Ashe paused, smiled and said: “There is aggression and aggression and aggression in sport

Embracing the change is the only way to grow. All the talks about experimentation in Test cricket like the usage of pink ball or a four-day Test is meaningless in the Indian context till the real play-to-finish Test match between Justice Lodha Committee and the BCCI gets over. The Apex Court from time to time is attacking with variety of deliveries and the Board of Control for Cricket in India is trying to defend it steadfastly. It is very disheartening to see a historical institution — the rich

 The French Marxist theorist, Guy Debord, described post-modern life as “the society of the spectacle.” And several thousand miles away, Mario Vargas Llosa agreed with him, calling modern culture as the “civilisation of the spectacle.”Almost 50 years after Debord’s comment, few modern activities fit in perfectly with what the two giants of philosophy and literature dwelled on as much as sport; and neither of them, we can be sure, spent their lives living on huge doses of sporting spectacle on te