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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? This is...

Tea complete: It was uneventful end to an uneventful day. Night watchman Paul Harris managed to get bat down just in time to block the yorker to keep out the lbw challenge from Ryan Sidebottom and England. South Africa now have less than 200...

The muddle in the England dressing room is not about picking Steve Harmison at Edgbaston or of missing Matthew Hoggard at Headingley. England cannot seem the find the rope ever since they lost their way at Lord’s. History is dangling the...

By Suneer Chowdhary In light of India’s heavy defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka, there are talks from certain quarters of a 3-0 whitewash! Even if one discounts this to be an exaggerated reaction, the fact of the matter is that team...

By Akshay Manwani As it reads, Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis is enough of a tongue twister. To make matters worse, batsmen standing up to him are also left tied in knots as Mendis flaunts his carrom skills while on the cricket...

By Kartik Kannan The Indian cricket team continues to amaze fans with the kind of expectations people have on a bunch of overrated 11 men. Indian cricket has always been viewed as the kid that fails to get good marks consistently. Just..

When Ed Joyce slapped the first shot to the boundary at the Rose Bowl, it was greeted to the tune of Take That’s ‘Shine’. Almost like the band’s reinvention, the domestic county Twenty20 championship finals day in England was a...

The gap between the two Tests simply does not seem to be enough. After all, what kind of preparation would India be doing other than run through the training drills? What they seem to need is a shake up, to realize that team India is by far...