The Indians have still not played their last day in the Caribbean at the time of writing this post. They start their tour in UK on the 15th with a tour match - 5 days to move across multiple time-zones and much tougher opposition. The Indian team composition will also differ (6 changes from the one that is playing West Indies).Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir will be the prominent reinforcements t...
Image via WikipediaIndia starts off a new series against Sri Lanka, trying to gain points and retain their No.1 ranking.The team contains the veterans - Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar - in the middle order. I am not trying to mention anything about phasing them out of the team here. This post is about identifying who can replace them in the next 1-2 years. From the current prospects wh...
Harsha Bhogle’s article today talks about how India have ignored Rahul Dravid’s landmark of reaching 12,000 runs. This is true to a large extent because of Sachin Tendulkar’s 50th century and the media hype surrounding the accomplishment.Rahul Dravid epitomizes how a player (or a human being) can withstand Peer Pressure in his career as an Indian middle-order batsmen. His entry ...
2000th match in history of test cricket100th test match between India and England1st test in a new series between the No.1 and No.3 in ICC RankingsSachin Tendulkar on 99 in the number of centuries (tests + ODIs)Sachin with a sub-40 highest score at LordsIt does not get any bigger than this as a build-up to the test series that starts this Thursday. The return of Sachin, Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Srees...
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