Bangladesh may not appear the most daunting of touring teams. But as a stand-in skipper of the host nation, the job cannot be too easy as Michael Clarke found out.
A clean sweep victory against a Bangladesh team in a three match one day...
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It was no long before the knives were out. Mickey Arthur can have his cake and eat it too. The South African coach minced no words on what he thought of the one day side. But another South African and another coach is finding himself in the...
Pakistan’s hopes to have their team at least participate in an away series have been squashed for all practical purposes. The reasons do not have much to do with the country’s political imbroglio but rather with the host nation’s burdensome...
While one Australian is on an enforced break, the break seems to have done another man good. Lee is set to come back, trying to put the loss and cost behind him.
Brett Lee’s personal life became the cynosure of all eyes after news...
By Kartik Kannan
India finally won a bilateral series in Sri Lanka, and largely the credit goes to some great efforts against the tide by the young brigade. India has been an enigmatic side and particularly in the familiar territory of Sri Lanka,...
By Shreyas Bhide
Dhoni has guided India to some fantastic achievments ever since he was made the captain of the Indian ODI squad - the T20 World Cup, CB series in Australia, ODI triumphs in Pakistan and SriLanka and somewhat above average results...
How does a team punish a player for skipping a team session: give him more time off! Andrew Symonds and controversy do not seem very far apart. Once again Symonds finds himself in hot water ahead of the tour to India and no prizes for guessing what...
By Kartik Kannan
If ever the SLC(Sri Lankar Cricket) Board get down to honouring one of their players with a cricketing terminology, they'd be happy to replace the familiar "Howzzat" with "How-Vaas-Zaat", given the yeoman contribution the...
Herschelle Gibbs was imitating Usain Bolt from the dressing room. But there was nothing like a lightning bolt about the innings. The South African chase was just like their performance through this one day series – despondent. The fat lady...
Saved by the dozen, is how Mahela Jayawardene must see this game. It is rather ironical how a team that performs with panache till they wrap the series suddenly hit a new low when presented with a match of little statistical significance....
South Africa suffered a major blow with Graeme Smith finally deciding his elbow had all done all it could. But the team now had to do without the skipper’s resources at a time when the hosts are in the ascendancy and the visitors, well, not...
Hardly anything more than an academic exercise, India look still like learners with the road ahead of them. But it is the Sri Lankans who still need to have their training wheels on.
The fifth and final match of the one day series...
When Ajantha Mendis was run out, the Sri Lankan commentator, Ranjeet Fernando, in yet another inane statement, stated that India were seeing hope again. But why did India have to see hope when the ninth Sri Lankan wicket fell with the hosts...
It seems like a distant nightmare than the famed Indian batting was struggling to survive against the spin of Mendis and guile of Muralitharan. Certainly the way these young guns have batted, Sri Lanka have found the tables turned. Has the...
When Sachin Tendulkar matched the Don…
That’s the tagline most Indian fans would like to read. (But they do not care that much really; they still love their heroes –with all his flaws and failings. Always the mark of a man whose...
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