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Trust Dhoni to come up with another set of excuses. What is it with Dhoni and this new-found self, where he just refuses to accept that his team played badly! After all, after losing a game by 200 runs, one can barely make excuses. While losing the toss or an inexperienced bowling attack can be [...]

For the umpteenth time, England’s Stuart Broad would have probably thought that he could get away. So, as he tried his level best to take a wicket in the second England-Pakistan Test match and failed, he thought that he could hit the Pakistani batsman and get away again. After all, his father is a match [...]

It is difficult to define some of the shots that the Indian batsmen played on the third day of the third Test match against Sri Lanka. While I agree that Virender Sehwag plays his game the way he always does, attacking and aggressive, he also needs to respect the opposition bowler to begin. Especially when [...]

Sachin Tendulkar created history at the start of the third and the final Test match between India and Sri Lanka at the PSS in Colombo. By being a part of the Test match, Tendulkar became the first ever player in the history of the game to feature in 169 Test matches, something that no other [...]

Top-ranked India will pray the coin drops in their favour as they attempt a series-levelling win in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka starting at the P. Sara Oval on Tuesday. India, who trail 1-0 in the series, were forced to bowl first in batting-friendly conditions in the previous two matches after skipper [...]

Virender Sehwag became only the third batsman in the Test cricket world to be stumped on a score of 99. Yes, with the team looking to chase down a target of 642, Sehwag made the cardinal error of dancing down the track to a bowler who was bowling for the first time in the day [...]

Now that is good news indeed. MS Dhoni has had a plethora of excuses at the end of the first Test match in Galle about how the swing of Lasith Malinga was the reason behind their loss in the game. It has not been declared that Malinga has been declared unfit for the second Test [...]

There are rumours that the given Shahid Afridi has resigned from the captaincy of the Test match cricket, the captaincy of ODIs and T20Is may also be given to Salman Butt. One hopes for Pakistan cricket’s sake that this is not true, because that would mean that the hierarchy in the cricket board is shorn [...]

Warning signs are here for the Indians with the Test series against Sri Lanka to come. First and foremost they were handed a pasting when the second-string Sri Lankan batting hammered a 500-plus total at the run-rate of four runs per over, and then, the batting was made to struggle for its runs. Of the [...]

Even as the soccer world cup rages on in South Africa, the countdown to the cricket world cup which will be played in the Indian sub-continent from the last week of February next year has already started. However, it is difficult to adjudge who the favourites for the tournament are. India has had an up [...]