All teams in the Asia Cup are facing the problem of proving their credibility in the shorter version of the game. India will have to wipe out the disaster Down Under from their memory and take fresh guard in conditions which are mores suited to their game. Consistency will be the key to India’s success. [...]
The Great Wall of India will finally be dismantled and consigned to history. Rahul Dravid could not have timed his retirement better. The Wall was cracking a bit during the recent tour Down Under. Getting castled was not something which one of the world’s greatest batsmen enjoyed. Throughout his career, Dravid was known for his [...]
The constant cross-talk and the stupid rotation policy clearly demonstrated that India were not interested in winning in the first place Fate dealt a swift blow in the backside for the Indian cricket team in the Commonwealth Bank Series despite a magnificent performance in the final qualifying match against Sri Lanka. As usual, India left [...]
India’s superstars have sidelined the game and got involved in a drama which has the makings of a Bollywood blockbuster. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s comments about the rotation of the elder members of the side have opened a can of worms which has sidetracked India’s precarious position in the Commonwealth Bank Series. The Indian captain’s statement [...]
Sri Lanka’s resurgence in the Commonwealth Bank Series has opened up the tournament and made it much more interesting gat the halfway stage. So far, the series has thrown up some tight finishes which has more to do with lack of consistency from all the sides. None of the teams have fired fully. Fortunately Sri [...]
England were trapped in a web of spin in the sands of the UAE and were left blue-faced after the whitewash by Pakistan. This was England’s first series after gaining the No 1 spot last summer. Now the heat is on them as England play Sri Lanka and later India in the Subcontinent. And if [...]
A stop-start career of one of India’s best one-day players has come to a grinding halt once again. This time it is sad. Yuvraj Singh, just past 30 a couple of months ago, has been diagnosed with lung cancer. This is devastating for anybody, let alone a sportsman with such natural talent as Yuvraj. But [...]
The Disaster Down Under finally came to a close at Adelaide with Team India thoroughly thumped. It is not so much the defeat but the manner in which India catapulted which angers. These cricketers win so much admiration back home that they are almost demi-gods. They now owe an apology to the millions of passionate [...]
India were whitewashed under an hour on the fifth day as expected. The only consolation was they managed to drag the Test into the last day. The relentless Australian bowling attack had already sealed the obvious overnight by picking up the Indian top order. Peter Siddle deserved the Man of the Match award for a [...]
The Indians are at the point of no return once again. The tentative and defensive approach proved to be their downfall. Australia were well on their way to complete a well-deserved whitewash. The dry wicket had got harder to bat on with the bounce getting lower. But it was not alarmingly dangerous. Australia lost five wickets [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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