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At first glance, almost everyone who has an opinion on cricket will disagree on this. Not in the spirit of the game, killing test cricket, putting personal glory first blah blah and all that crap. Firstly, this match was anyway robbed of much of it’s potential due to frequent delays on account of the weather and light conditions, [...]

Wow, this was super !! India managed to exorcise several fourth innings ghosts, chasing a target of 387 to beat England and go 1-0 up in the series. Finally, Tendulkar got a chance to shut up his critics with a superbly crafted if somewhat restrained century to help India overhaul the target. What was truly awesome was [...]

What’s with the Aussie cricketers? They seem to be all busy writing books, and funnily enough each of them have some nasty ‘India’ tales to tell. The timing of course is superb and the more controversial the better. Adam Gilchrist set the ball rolling with his comments against Tendulkar and Harbhajan, and then was quickly [...]

Image: Cricketnext website The Indian team laid all demons to rest today, dishing out a 172 run defeat to Ricky Ponting’s hapless team. From the start of the day itself, it was looking an uphill task, and notwithstanding some lusty hitting by Hayden (77 off 93 balls), the Aussies crumbled to a combination of some [...]

The recently concluded Test match at Delhi between India and Australia will be remembered for the retirement of Anil “Jumbo” Kumble, one of India’s greatest cricketers, it’s leading wicket taker as well as # 3 on the all time list. It is amazing that for a long time, the “300 club” had a single spinner, Lance [...]

If there was one hugely significant fact brought home during the recently concluded second Test between India and Australia, I thought it was the emergence of Mahendra Singh Dhoni as Indian cricket’s man of the moment. From the time he burst on the scene as a hard hitting middle order wicket-keeper batsman to the time he led India to victory in [...]

For almost six decades, a Test batting average of 99.94 in cricket has remained the pinnacle of achievement for all batsmen. The person who retired with that average? Sir Don Bradman. Of late, there is a story doing the rounds about an Australian statistician finding a problem with an old scorecard where four runs were not credited to the [...]