Cricket Blog

Some new year resolutions are made, others are broken. This one is a bit of both. It appears no one even seems surprised or even cares to notice that the traditional New Year Test at Sydney has not begun today, the 2nd of January....

by Veena Gabriel Harbhajan Singh, the fiery off-spinner always at the receiving end of Australian sledging, is unable to hide his glee. After all the needling of Australians was one of the reasons which made Bhajji loose his control and gave...

How can there by any when the only thing left to do while packing one’s bags in the dressing room is to await the arrival of the chairman of selectors to decide if one is packing his bags for good? Hayden's been left off and...

by Shreyas S. Bhide No amount of adjectives can be used to describe the class that this man possess. Of course talent and ability are a given, looking at the way he has played this game over the past 19 years. Sachin Tendulkar has been the...

On a day when 282 runs have been scored, any Test captain would be fairly satisfied. However, the manner of their start and finish left something to be desired and ended up undoing the beauty of their comeback. After India closed on their innings...

One would have thought so after watching Andrew Flintoff and Yuvraj Singh slug it out in the middle. No, this was not like the Harbhajan Singh- Andrew Symonds fiasco that dragged on across continents. Nor was it a home grown...

The match may have swung India’s way but not without the home team creating history. Here’s a rundown of just how special this victory was. This was the highest successful run chase in the sub continent,...

On the back of the Indian victory, come the payroll tags. The BCCI has followed a graded policy of payment for its centrally contracted players and now, it appears some of the elite of the IPL will be getting their dues as the new list of...

Yesterday when England were looking doleful at 229 for five despite Andrew Strauss’ century, the general inference was this was going to be another easy one for India. But England have fought back impressively and now look to take tight...

In the war of words, no opportunities are spared. Well, nothing can be more embarrassing than having to eat one’s own words. Harbhajan Singh hogged the mic after the first day’s play yesterday at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium,...