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What a scandalous headline, isn’t it?
The facts are quite boring. The squad for the Asia Cup has been named, and it’s more or less full strength, except it isn’t.
MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir...(more)


India’s loss to Zimbabwe in the first ODI of the tri-series doesn’t matter too much. It is definitely a step backwards for us, but not because we lost.
It’s pretty clear that the whole point of this series, from the selec...(more)

India play Zimbabwe tomorrow in the first match of a tri-series. There are so many reasons not to bother with this series.
For one, it involves Zimbabwe, which is still a long way from a quality side. And there’s Sri Lanka. Again. Be...(more)

So the squad to tour Zimbabwe has been announced, and it is definitely a second-string side. Or as the selectors would call it, "a look into the future".
Squad: M Vijay, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Suresh Raina (capt), Virat Kohli (vice-capt), R...(more)

The T20 World Cup has gone exactly as expected, no surprises have been sprung. The big ’uns have all progressed to the next round. The minnows showed some fight and, being minnows, were overpowered before bowing out. The Afghans were ...(more)

Group C should be interesting. Indians and South Africans have played a lot of cricket recently, starting from the Test and ODI series before the IPL. They haven’t had a lot of time to rest, and the rapidly growing up Afghanistan will...(more)

The IPL is over for the year. Chennai Super Kings are the champs, by virtue of winning one match, the final. The Mumbai Indians dominated the entire season, and booked their place in the semis quite early. Chennai barely made it, and only d...(more)

Image via WikipediaThe Asia Cup starts on 15th June - one more of those tournaments started by regional boards. Not sure why there is no Australasia Cup or African Cup. Hold on - there is an Afro-Asian Cup - does not matter if it is not bei...(more)

Indian cricket, one will do well to remember, faces some really weird selection policies. One day one guy gets chosen because of unmentionable reasons, is retained in the team for even more unmentionable reasons while the best ones ro...(more)

Image via WikipediaThe Indian selectors decided to make their presence felt (just as I was mentioning about their end of honeymoon). Yuvraj Singh had been taking his presence for granted and he was looked up by the youngsters as their mento...(more)

The honeymoon of Krish Srikkanth and his selectors has ended quickly. No longer can they take credit for the No.1 position in test cricket nor the No.2 position (which they have lost after the tri-series) in ODIs. The World Cup debacle as w...(more)

It’s wrong to say India was knocked out by Sri Lanka. India was knocked out by India. This the seniors back home know only too well, when contacted Kumble said in his typical strong jawed manner, "there was only one team not playing c...(more)

The Indian team squats around Kirsten’s room, as Suresh Raina readies himself for a speech. Raina smiles around, clears his throat and shoots...RAINAThing is, we gotta get the Bonus Point tomorrow, more important than winning we gotta...(more)



You can call me The Artist formerly known as Nohit. That has a swagger to it, I can almost see myself breaking into song, a Bollywood ballad. Anyway, it’s just a matter of time before they start calling me Prince or Nawab of Nagpur.Did yo...(more)

Image via WikipediaThe No.2 team in ODI cricket was supposed to be so strong that everyone considered them the team in form and expected them to have a strong bench as well. Earlier, everyone (including me) used to think that the average Ra...(more)


Image via WikipediaToday’s article on Rediff was interesting to read - BCCI needs to rethink county ban on playersPiyush Chawla (Sussex), Irfan Pathan (Essex and Yorkshire), S Sreesanth (Warwickshire), Ishant Sharma (Kent and Hampshire...(more)
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