The game we all love, however
India were lucky to have won the league game against Pakistan. If not for a freak Pandya innings, they would have been humbled. There are no two ways to look at that. India made heavy weather of a moderate chase that it almost scuttled at the end. The second game, Super-4, showed how difficult will …
Last over of the innings. Surya is at the striker’s end. He has already brought a middling score into a defendable one. Will he be able to propel this score into the insurmountable? Can Surya be the Hussey of India? First ball, the ball was just outside the off-stump. He just turns his wrists slightly …
The Indian cricket team management is in a very difficult position. They are neither able to drop Rahul from the playing eleven nor are they able to cajole him into batting aggressively. Rahul’s batting against Hong Kong in the Asia Cup leaves a lot to be desired about his position. The fact that he is …
A target that must have resulted in a comfortable chase, proved to be too great for the Indian team. It required the brilliance of Hardik Pandya to get over the line. What must have been a walk in the park chase, nearly ended up being completely chuffed up. Yes we won the game but requestions …
The ground is the same, the settings are similar, the players are almost the same and India’s first opponent in the next edition of Asia Cup is the same. Pakistan. It was barely a year ago against the same opposition in the T20 World Cup in Dubai, Pakistan finally laid to rest the ghosts of …
India just finished a short tour of Zimbabwe. Oh believe me. It happened. India did tour Zimbabwe for a short ODI series. I know some would have missed the series because it is hardly worth a mention because of the non-stop cricket being played everywhere. Be that as it may, India won the series quite …
It is really hard to believe that it has been 14 years since Kohli made his debut. I can still remember his debut against Sri Lanka in one of the ODI where he was asked to open the innings. He did reasonably well in that series. I believed that he will be a good batsman …
Ricky Ponting, the incredible former Australian captain and a champion batsman has heaped praise on none other than Surya Kumar Yadav. Infact, he has compared him to another great A B De Villiers. It really is high praise from a great batsman about a rookie who has played only a handful of limited over games …
777 games. It simply is mindboggling. This is the total number of games that the ICC expects all the nations to play between 2023 – 2027. It is about 1 game every third day. At a time when players are close to revolting because of the sheer volume of games, the ICC has gone ahead …
Sanjay Manjrekar, the former Indian batsman, has credited Kohli for embracing the new Indian batting approach whereas, Aakash Chopra has said that the road for Shreyas is not completely closed. He will still come back into the team. Let me write a short blog about Manjrekar on Kohli and Chopra on Shreyas. “They should celebrate …