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...
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Riding on skipper M.S. Dhoni’s 76 and Suresh Raina’s 53, India managed to score 237 runs losing 9 wickets. For Sri Lanka, Ajantha Mendis was again in the picture for taking 3 for 56 runs. When Sri Lanka came to bat, it was already presumed that...
The picture above involving Graeme Smith and Justin Kemp is dated back to two years ago on the eve of the one day international between South Africa and Pakistan in Mohali, India in the previous edition of the Champions Trophy. This edition, if it...
The ICC Champions trophy, next only to the ICC World Cup and which is to be held in Pakistan from September 12 to 28, might recieve a jolt if major teams decides not to send its team to play in the tournament. With the tournament to be held in a...
by Rupesh
The warm up match with Sri Lankan XI before the five-match one day series was all joy for Yuvaraj Singh who scored a cracking ton to ensure the Indians a victory and more importantly, a much needed morale booster, after its slump in the...
The last time India went to Sri Lanka to play a test series, it was in 2001 and even that year, they were beaten by a similar score line of 2-1. That series was a disaster when India had lost the first test by 10 wickets, won the second and lost the...
by Kartik Kannan
Anil Kumble has been India's long serving hero, who has bowled India to many of its famous wins since its resurgence in the 90's under Mohammed Azharuddin. One wonders, going by his recent spells of bowling, whether the long...
It has so far been a scintillating contest between the turning ball and the flashing blade and with the final hurdle in front of both teams imminent; the whole series still hangs in perfect balance.
The battle for Cricketing supremacy in Asia...
The buzz is in the air and it would seem Twenty20 is cricket’s ticket to everything it could never achieve.
The Twenty20 version of the cricket game really catapulted the viewership in South Africa for cricket to new heights. In...
Even India would have not expected it to come this easy. Sri Lanka had lost four crucial wickets before tea. But it appeared that they would still stretch it to the fifth day even though the result seemed inevitable. But the end came all too...
Match poised on even keel:
The third day’s play had left the fate of the match hanging in the balance. The day’s honours belonged largely to India simply because India have put the runs on board and it is now for them to extend that lead...
Swords Drawn at Dusk
Harbhajan Singh did what Ajantha Mendis did to India: wobble the line up. Sri Lanka seemed good for the going with Warnapura and Sangakkara half centuries. But the situation changed after tea to a point where Sri...
The similarities are uncanny. Two Tests that seemed to be going one way drastically changed direction after a rain burst that delayed the post tea session. The final few overs were perhaps the most intriguing sessions of play in an equal...
When Kumar Sangakkara dropped Gambhir in the morning, Sri Lanka appeared to have made a painful mistake in the field. Waiting for the post lunch session turned into waiting for tea. Sri Lanka had much time on their hands to see where they had gone...
Remember the time when as children, people spent so much time picking teams and squabbling amongst themselves over friends dumped and forced-upon foes that the hour of play usually ended without the game being played at all?
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