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The joke is on India at the moment. In literal sense, the chosen 15 in the Indian WC squad has a fresh face. No prizes for guessing it is Piyush Chawla. For a player who has not played since June 2008, the leg-spinner surely had lady-luck by his side when the selectors met in Chennai [...]

The bad news first. Sreesanth, Rohit Sharma fail to get the nod in the final 15 that will represent India in cricket’s biggest prize. Now for the good news. Ravindra Jadeja does not make the cut. Sources point out that Mahendra Singh Dhoni did not want Sree in the squad and opted instead for Ashish [...]

Indian Premier League (IPL) has often been an amalgamation of cricket and entertainment—cricketainment, if you may call so. Once you bring in the entertainment quotient into it, the presence of stars becomes pivotal. While stars such as Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Chris Gayle, Sanath Jayasuriya set the ball rolling, quite literally in the T20 format [...]

Some months ago, in an interview to a television channel, Sunil Gavaskar had said that Sachin Tendulkar was not only a player who scored runs by the buckets but ensured that he did not look ugly at any point of time. Well, on Tuesday, the first man who crossed 10,000 runs in Test cricket would [...]

Whilst many predict cricket to undergo changes in 2011, I am enlisting a few arenas which would continue to remain the same this year, next year and for many more years to come. 1. Pakistan cricket will continue to hog the headlines for all non-cricketing activities. Javed Miandad will be asked to come out of [...]