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P.S: this article is written with good humour and must be taken in good spirit! Ah, so the wise men think they can smile because they picked Harbhajan Singh as the fall guy for the debacle in England a month ago? Sorry folks, there are tons of options ahead of the sardar from Jalandhar. In [...]

  Boldness has never been a virtue associated with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The time selectors have often been accused of choosing players from ‘their own region’ and have faced the ire of the paying public and pundits. Not anymore! When the big bosses picked the Indian squad for the [...]

It was a touted as revenge series and the scoreline did read 5-0, as India crucified a hapless and definitely hopeless England in the final ODI on the eve of Diwali at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday. Revenge is a dish that necessarily needs to be served cold, and M.S. Dhoni’s men did just that [...]

Watching a Test match these days is inevitably a painful exercise. Call it the advent of Twenty20 cricket or the overdose of ODIs, Tests have taken a backseat, but there are some charms that continue to keep me hooked. On a Saturday morning, I woke myself up to catch a glimpse of one of my [...]

Just for a fleeting moment, forget the latest ICC Test/ODI/T20 rankings. When was the last time we saw a side that steam-rolled an opposition to submission for a period of atleast a few years in succession? When was the last time you saw a team that looked like a champion outfit? Well, it would invariably [...]

    One thing is for sure, Shahid Afridi would surely have been a great teaser if he ever had been in love. The question—will he, won’t he—- is something that he has done all his life, and on Tuesday, the former Pakistan captain, who quit international cricket, stated that he is ready for selection [...]

    The Test cricket loyalists can take a backseat. While India did win their first World Cup in 1983, their second World Cup took 24 years to come. And when it did, it was in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa when the M.S. Dhoni-led Indian side were runaway victors. Since then, [...]

As the Indian team arrived for the big match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium on Friday, they had a familiar face cheering them. Sudhir Kumar Choudhary is not just another fan waiting to catch a glimpse of the demigods of Indian cricket. Sudhir gets into position, waves the tri-colours with his left hand, [...]

It may come as a surprise to many who have seen Mumbai Indians clinch the third Champions League but to me the team that had soul and flair was Trinidad & Tobago. Right from the onset, they had to fight the qualifiers and fought tooth and nail with virtually every team and match. It missed [...]