Tag: Cricket

14SEP

The Chase Begins

A first-person account of IISc’s women’s cricket tournament   It was a hot Sunday morning in May. Under clear skies that offered little protection against the beating sun, a group of women gathered around at the pavilion in the Gymkhana to discuss strategies. It was the second match of the women’s cricket tournament organised by […]

29JUN

‘I was the umpire who said “Out!” when Kapil Dev took his record-breaking wicket in 1994’

AL Narasimhan joined IISc in 1965. At the time, he was 25, had just completed an MSc degree in statistics, and had also just fled from a job in Gulbarga, Karnataka, after only a month. Despite this false start, he got the chance to join IISc, and begin a lifelong career in administration. During the […]