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India’s dominance at home masks struggle outside favourable environs. Yes, this is certainly true of the Indian cricket team. India have been exceptionally dominant at home over the last 20 years. Not even Australia can claim to be that invincible at home and neither can England or South Africa. As for rest of the international …
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The Indian team must be completely deflated after the thrashing in the first test at Adelaide. It is extremely tough even for a hardened team like Australia or South Africa to come out of such a drubbing. For a team like India, who isn’t that tough physically or mentally, it is close to impossible. Such …
The Indian cricket team crashed to its lowest test score. This is such a huge embarrassment for the entire nation. All of us, the Indian fans are left utterly humiliated by this abject surrender. The meltdown was so shocking that after a few minutes, despair gave way to laughter and anger. This ineptness could be …
It is by now rather popular as to how Ricky Ponting, one of the greats of the game predicted the exact mode of dismissal of Prithvi Shaw in the first innings at Adelaide. Shaw was bowled just after. These were infact prophetic words from a former great but was he actually a party to Shaw’s …
The first test between India and Australia will begin at Adelaide tomorrow. Shubnam Gill has voiced his opinion about the alleged chin music of the Australian bowlers. Here is a young Indian player who is thought to be a supremely talented batsman who instead of letting himself score runs against one of the finest attacks …
In about 3 days, the first test between India and Australia will begin in Adelaide. This will as we know be a day-night test match. The first such instance for India in Australia and their first day-night game against a top team. This is going to be a new experience for the Indian team and …
The Indian A team just completed their first practise game of the current Australian tour. It was a 3 day game against Australia A. This was the first of 2 practise games planned before the first test at Adelaide. Unlike the previous tours, the Indian team took this game seriously and played with 11 players. …
I have always thought that Hardik Pandya is an overrated cricketer and that at best, he wilI be an asset for the Indian team in T20 cricket. I thought that he is in the Indian team only because he is playing for Mumbai Indians in IPL. However, I must confess that I never thought I …
India and Australia completed the 2nd leg of the 3 leg series with T20. India emerged victorious in the series with 2-1. This was not really a surprise because the Indians were involved in a 60 day IPL tournament and they were much more T20 fit than the Australians. The Indians were infact expected to …
As some of us know, one set of Indian players were involved in the 2nd T20 game against Australia in Sydney. At the sametime, in another ground in Sydney, the Indian A team was involved in a game against Australia. With a bench strength of more than 20 players, it is possible to allocate a …