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Wham, wham, wham, wham…….no am not describing any Phantom or a Batman movie, but Australia’s opening Bat Man David Warner. On a day when India’s old bats struggled, bided time, left deliveries outside the corridor of uncertainty, and shamelessly perished, Warner gave a lesson on authoritative batsmanship. His innings of 104 came in just 80 [...]

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 [...]

How do you win with losers? Better still, how do you lose with winners? Well, this exactly sums up the fortunes of Australia and India in their ongoing Test series. While Australia pulled off a win in Melbourne with the help of rookies in the form of Ed Cowan, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon their opponents [...]

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, [...]

As Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men made their way into the international terminal exit at the Canberra International airport, they would have surely felt at home. Why? While there would be a considerable amount of Indians cheering them on from the stands as they play their first tour game at the Manuka Oval in Canberra, the [...]

  He first started with a mere brick and as he grew in size, stature and experience, Rahul Dravid, over the years weaved not just magic with the willow, but also gave the purists and his fans the joy of watching batting in its purest form. In his decade-and-half innings with international cricket, not for [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As I sat and watched India’s run-making machine VVS Laxman churn out yet another special at the Eden Gardens, his 17th in Tests, the opponents, the West Indies literally felt the chill run down their spine.  It was the winter of 1996 when the Indian crowd witnessed a young VVS Laxman walking into the middle [...]