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Only Jasprit Bumrah can afford to speak out his mind and escape unscathed when he explained during the ongoing ICC (International Cricket Council) T20 World Cup that India's poor performance was on account of fatigue. Outgoing head coach Ravi Shastri too admitted that the Indian cricketers didn't switch on in pressure situations, having been in a bio-secure bubble for six months. By getting knocked out of the marquee event, the Indian players might have earned at least a week's rest ahead of a nerve-wracking schedule that shall continue when they return home. What we shall see in the coming months is a lot of talk of resting or rotating players, but if past experience is to go by none of the top players will step aside. No sponsor would like to see the stars rested either in franchise cricket or international cricket. If India had played the ICC T20 World Cup Finals on 14th November 2021, they would have had a two-day break before the first of the three T20s against New Zea...

Everyone who has been to a movie, has often thought a different ending to the story, particularly if it has been a sad or tragic one. Or people have made up stories in their mind, taking off from where the movie story-line ends. Going back to movies that touched my heart, I remember Mili , the story of a cancer-stricken girl flying off to Switzerland in the last scene, with her newly-wed husband. I remember people talking about a sequel to the film in which she returns completely cured, though sequels weren't the in-thing in the 1970s in Bollywood. But then cancer was considered incurable and film-makers had spun many a stories around cancer that had tragic ends - Anand and Safar to name a few.  Anand too had an impact on me and I too was waiting for Babu Moshai (Amitabh Bachchan) to return in the last scene with the miraculous homeopathic medicine that would have cured Anand (Rajesh Khanna).  Another Rajesh Khanna-Amitabh Bachchan starrer, and it is a pity they acted in on...