The game we all love, however
Over the last 20 years, since the Ganguly-led Indian team started to win outside of Asia, somehow, somewhere, the India vs Australia series became quite competitive and a lot of times, closely fought. Suddenly, Australia talked about the series being on par with the Ashes. During the Waugh and Ponting era, when Australia won everything …
The Indian team, after the surrender to New Zealand at home, is now in Australia for The Border Gavaskar Trophy. It is worth mentioning that India has somehow, won the trophy 4 consecutive times, including, twice in Australia. Looking back and looking at the batting, it is nothing short of a miracle. Anyway, the next …
Within days after a disastrous and humiliating series against New Zealand in India, India will head-off to Australia for the next edition of the Border Gavaskar series. The first Test at Perth, starts on 22 November and the team will leave India on November 10. They have enough time to play atleast one warm-up game …
That is the question that is dodging Cricket Australia for awhile now. Will it be Steve Smith who will open the batting or will it be Travis Head who will open the batting? It is a question that they are trying desperately to answer. The retirement of David Warner, has left a void at the …
The Ashes is a year and two months away. A lot of things could change between then and now. England have not held the Ashes in 10 years. They have not won in Australia in 13 years with the last 3 series being absolute drubbing. 0-5, 0-4, 0-4 in Australia shows disaster threadbare. It can …
Brendan McCullum, the man who is credited with creating a whole new philosophy of playing Test cricket, has been handed over the white-ball coaching as well by the ECB. On the other side, Nathan Lyon, wants a 3-match Test series to decide the WTC winner. Let me pass my two cents about McCullum’s role and …
The Border Gavaskar trophy. The series is another 2 months away. India have a series against Bangladesh and New Zealand whereas Australia have a short series in England. Yet, the series is already in focus for several Australian cricketers. Indian cricketers, except for Shastri and Gavaskar, hasn’t reacted to any of the statement made by …
Almost an year after he retired from red-ball cricket, David Warner, has retired from white-ball cricket too. This was a much anticipated and expected announcement that came at the end of the group game against India. Everyone knows that for sometime now, Warner has been struggling with his form in all formats. It is often …
He is called by his Australian teammates as pigeon. A pigeon is a bird that is generally, soft and not violent like an eagle or a vulture. On the field he was anything but a pigeon. It just wasn’t possible to see him keeping quiet, constantly egging on the bowlers and getting himself involved in …
What can you say about a much-maligned bowler who has crossed 500 Test wickets? Nothing needs to be said. Just doff your hat and tell him well bowled. He is such a genius that for most of his Test career, he has always been underrated as a bowler. Neither the media nor the spectators took …