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Yet another series, yet another set of worries. No, am not talking about strategies, but of injuries and the effect it can have on the Indian dressing room as they gear up for the first Test on Boxing Day against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. With Ishant Sharma ‘reportedly’ suffering from an ankle injury, [...]

Even if the coaching manual says that things need to be kept simple in cricket, there are 99 per cent of players, coaches, support staff and many others associated with the sport who are hell-bent on complicating simple techniques, in the process forget that it’s after all just a game. But not Virender Sehwag. For [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

When this all-conquering Indian team won the Test series 1-0 after the third and final Test in Dominica on Sunday night, I was more sad than happy. Agreed, a Test series in West Indies was won but, not how it was supposed to have. A top-ranked Test team like ours was expected to win and [...]