1. The Coin, the Woman, and the Great Game Of Cricket

    The Coin The story behind this is that the coin often decides the match. Especially in the 50-over format. Statistics agree with this as well...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about over 3 years ago 292 reads 43 comments

  2. Award Ceremony No. 2: When Expectations Increase

    And finally, we reach the time when we declare the awards. For those who do not know, awards were introduced for cricket writers by me a couple of months ago. You can check it out here...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about over 3 years ago 55 reads 3 comments

  3. Tamim Iqbal and the Hopes Of Bangladeshi Cricket

    I know that the Champions Trophy is going on right now and, therefore, this article might seem a bit irrelevant given that it is about a player from a team that did not even play in the tournament...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about over 3 years ago 230 reads 25 comments

  4. The Rather Interesting Case of Fielding

    Coming to think of it, fielding is something that is massively important in cricket. It is often the part of the game which makes the difference between a winning unit and a decent unit...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 51 reads 3 comments

  5. The True Fans Found In India

    It said often, that India only has two passions, Cricket and Bollywood (Indian film industry). And now that so many of our movie stars are getting connected to cricket as team owners, mascots for teams, team ambassadors etc...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 137 reads 9 comments

  6. Pitch Perfect: The First Cricket Writers Awards Ceremony

    And finally we reach the time when we declare the awards. For those who do not know, awards were introduced for cricket writers by me a month ago. You can check it out here...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 217 reads 29 comments

  7. If Arrogance Were Taught Properly...

    Given as the reason for all the problems, Accused of tampering with perfectly good brains, I cry and hide from thou Yes, I am scared of thy fury, I am scared. Not cause I can't faceth thy fiery mouth, But cause I cannot bare lies Lies...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 213 reads 25 comments

  8. The Forgotten Kiwis and Lankans Series

    The guy up their in that picture is Ross Taylor. I am sure this picture somewhat tells you the way the New Zealand cricket team might be feeling...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 99 reads 23 comments

  9. Announcing Cricket Awards

    Hello friends, Not only is this the announcement of awards, it is also my way of communicating to you all that I am your new cricket community leader at Bleacher Report...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 190 reads 36 comments

  10. The Not Out Batsman and Cricket

    In cricket, there are plenty of emotions. In fact, in any sport there are plenty of emotions. But since I am writing on cricket, I will concern myself with nothing else. So as I was saying, cricket has plenty of emotions...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 168 reads 21 comments

  11. Form and Confidence: Two Words That Really Confuse Me

    Form is temporary, class is permanent. This is a very old saying. Sports are one area where it is used the most. It is as if the sports fraternity has a monopoly over this word...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 157 reads 12 comments

  12. Farokh Engineer: A Man Forgotten in Indian Cricket

    Engineer was probably India's first dasher. It is unfortunate that he was stuck with a team which lacked confidence and often looked out of sorts...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 2,621 reads 24 comments

  13. Andrew Flintoff's Decision To Quit Test Cricket Highlights a Wider Problem

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    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 213 reads 20 comments

  14. This Ashes Guarantees a Rise Of Lot More Than Just a Team

    As we all know, Ashes is the oldest rivalries in cricket. According to me, it is the biggest one too. These days people do think that India-Pakistan, India-Australia and Australia-South Africa have overtaken it, but I disagree...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 89 reads 17 comments

  15. Test Cricket Discussions: ICC Talking About Four-Day Matches

    Some time back today, I got to know that ICC is thinking about four-day test matches from five-day test matches so that this oldest format of the game does not die because of the huge rise of T20 cricket...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 131 reads 20 comments

  16. Indian Cricket Fans: We Just Want to Bully Someone, Even if We Also Lose

    Today, I am a die-hard cricket fan. But it all started when I became a die-hard fan of team India. It was so nice when India won. I used to forget my issues in school and how badly I had been doing there...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 276 reads 30 comments

  17. Cricket These Days:The Value of the Single Has Gone Down

    Running between the wickets has been a very important feature of cricket in recent times. Drop the ball and run. Don't fear anything and run. If you are clever and quick, you cannot be stopped...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about almost 4 years ago 58 reads 6 comments

  18. Painting My Sports Idol

    There was a day in my life when I existed. But the strange part is I don’t know where I was. I can’t even describe it properly; it seems so long ago. The whole area seemed very similar to a dream, but I know it wasn’t...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about 4 years ago 762 reads 83 comments

  19. A Deep Analysis After India's T20 World Cup Exit

    Yesterday India crashed out of the t20 world cup. This was after they were tagged favourites this year. It is particularly sad to see this as the team was world champions last time and could not even make it to the semi-finals this tournament...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about 4 years ago 470 reads 20 comments

  20. Looking at Sports: When It Sickens Me

    Sports has been touching all our lives, but it is imortant we don't get to soapy about how sports helps us learn this and how it helps us do that etc. And I say this because it really iritates the hell out of me...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about 4 years ago 611 reads 113 comments

  21. New Bats For You Andy: Answers Some Problems of Cricket Australia

    Cricket Australia is currently having a torrid time taking care of its affairs. They have had their team just crash out in the very first round of the tournament...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about 4 years ago 135 reads 15 comments

  22. BCCI The Superpower: Its Greatness, Its Mistake, and Its Potential

    I do not like the BCCI. My stance is very clear about this. Overall, the board has become something to be scared of. It treats the ICC as it's subordinate...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about 4 years ago 154 reads 12 comments

  23. The Official Curtain Closer for the Indian Premier League

    I am a Bangalore Royal Challengers fan. And despite knowing that after the kind of final we had, cricket has to be the clear winner, I still feel a bit low. But that is my problem, not yours...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about 4 years ago 281 reads 35 comments

  24. Sports and The "Unimportant": Half Fought Debates

    Sports like any other field encounters problems. Problems related to specific players, problems related to finances of a certain team or board or the sport in general, problems related to dynamic ...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about 4 years ago 133 reads 31 comments

  25. Cricket and the Machine-Made Product Phenomenon

    Life that we lead is a very interesting. Full of new technology. Full of manufactured stuff. And of course, where manufacturing comes in you have the use of machines. These days everything is completely machine made...

    Dann Khan Written by Dann Khan about 4 years ago 164 reads 10 comments