Most of the Indian fans will be finding themselves in a familiar territory. Yet another overseas series involving the Indian cricket team, and yet again, the men who took the field have failed to deliver. As the India-Australia Test series reaches the WACA (Western Australia Cricket Association) in Perth, the threat of the scoreline going [...]
Tags: BCCI, Indian cricket, MS Dhoni, Perth Test, Praveen Kumar, Rahul Dravid, Rohit Sharma, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Varun Aaron, VVS Laxman, WACA, WACA (Western Australia Cricket Association)
My first memories of watching the West Indies play was way back in 1989 when the grand-old Doordarshan used to air half-an-hour highlights of India’s tour to the Caribbean. The series began with the five-match ODIs, the first being at Bridgetown, Barbados and rightfully so, the hosts romped home with 50 runs. Desmond Haynes [...]
Tags: Darren Sammy, Desmond Haynes, Dilip Vengsarkar, Doordarshan, Gautam Gambhir, India, Ishant Sharma Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron, Kapil Dev, MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Sir Vivian Richards, Virender Sehwag, West Indies, yuvraj Singh
“It ain’t over till its over” says one of Hollywood’s most-loved actors—-Slyvester Stallone in the evergreen Rocky movie. Well, the reactions that I witnessed as the last Indian wicket fell at Lord’s were that of a mix of anger, outrage and amusement. It did not take long for the British media (some Indian ones too!) [...]
Tags: England cricket team, Indian cricket team, Lord's Test, MS Dhoni, Ravi Shastri, Rocky, Slyvester Stallone, Zaheer Khan