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Right at the outset, a word of appreciation for the decision Gambhir took on the morning of the Sydney Test. Eversince the press conference the previous day, speculation was rife about the position of Rohit Sharma. It was confirmed on the morning of the game that he was actually dropped. The Indian team can say …
This year saw more heartbreaks for the Indian fans as compared to the previous years. Yes, there was a T20 World Cup win but it was sandwiched between several disastrous games that by the end of the year, it seems like India have gone back to the dark old days of 1990s and early 2000s. …
At the end of the day or at the end of a game, the captains are usually involved in a press briefing. An overwhelming majority of those briefings are not even worthy of listening to because it usually follows the same old cliché. This is not restricted only to cricket. This is the case across …
The G Boxing Day Test is done and dusted. Australia prevailed because of some insipid batting by India. They definitely did not perform on a superior level. It was the mindless, stupid Indian batting and the lack of support for Bumrah, the cause of the heavy defeat. The players are to be blamed. There is …
All it took for India to convert a position of promise to a position of direstraits was just 30 minutes. When India loses this series, this 30 minutes of madness will prove pivotal. It started with the needless and unnecessary runout of Jaiswal and it ended with the tame dismissal of Akash Deep. Ofcourse, India …
An attendance of more than 80K for day 1 on of the Border Gavaskar Trophy at the G, is incredible. Boxing Day cricket has its own charm which has diminished after all these years. On the field, it was Australia’s day. They managed to cross 300 and have lost only 6 wickets with a well …
It was along the expected lines. Prior to the start of the series, I wrote that it was advantage England. In the end, it happened exactly as I thought it would. New Zealand had a consolation win but England won the series in a canter. Of the two teams, it was England who had much …
The Border Gavaskar Trophy, has reached the halfway stage. Cricket Australia designed the series in such a way that by the time the teams reach Melbourne, Australia would have won the series, India would have been humiliated, especially, after the drubbing at the hands of New Zealand, the media would have made a mincemeat of …
The BCCI and the selectors have blundered by not making Ashwin the captain. Once Kohli relinquished his position, Rohit by default became the captain. I for one, would have made Ashwin the captain. Critics will argue that he wasn’t a regular in SENA nations and hence, he cannot be made the captain. It will say …
It came out of the blue and it was over within a couple of minutes. Ravichandran Ashwin, announced his international retirement from all forms of the game with immediate effect. The memories of the last 14 years, right from the time when he bowled Shane Watson in the 2011 World Cup, came flooding back. Ofcourse, …