Cricket in India has always been more than a sport. It is an obsession. Indians, from the lower to the upper class, love the game, and have loved it even more ever since Kapil Dev led the Indian cricket team to victory in the finals of World Cup 1983 against the seemingly invincible West Indies. A lot has happened since then. For one,

Anil Saari was a film critic, poet, playwright, journalist. He passed away in 2005; cancer claimed him. He was only 60.