Just when we were thinking that Team India might romp up the series with a 4-1 victory margin, especially after its historic triumph in the Emerald Island, the team displayed a shoddy performance to lose its final match by registering one of its low..
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BCCI plans to upgrade its working system by proposing a new set of selection rules and also by bringing changes in the salary system of the National selection committee. The agenda is supposed to be put forth in the upcoming annual general meeting to.
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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...
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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...
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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..
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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