Two highly stimulating cricket events — the ‘Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture’ and ‘Remembering Frank Tyson’ were held in Mumbai recently drove home the importance of pure cricket charcha.

Sitting in the audience of the Cricket Club of India’s CK Nayudu Hall, one realised that there is so much to a cricketer that we journalists don’t see and appreciate while covering them or following their forays through the print and electronic media.