Having won the ODI series against South Africa, India’s selectors have decided to rest key players and do a little experimentation on the side for the final ODI in Ahmedabad on Saturday.Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Praveen Kumar are all getting rested, which means India are without seven of their first-choice team (if you include injuries to Zaheer Khan, Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Si...
This is obviously a great big time-saver of a post, so I won’t waste time setting it up or explaining it, even though that’s exactly what I just did.
Both the first South Africa-India first test at the Centurion and the Australia-England third test at the WACA are scheduled on the same days, with RSA-Ind starting 6 hours after the Ashes. A lot of the ’what to expect stuff’...
Confident of lower-order Yusuf Pathan tried his best but that was not supported well by his colleagues other than Zaheer Khan. India was probably not as hungry as South Africa for the series win. But, MS Dhoni had a different take on it - he was positive as ever and sought to see the silver lining from the loss:The biggest positive out of this game is that when we go into the World Cup, we wi...
The big daddy of tournaments is not far away, and there are a lot of teams to cover, so I thought I’d get a head start with the previews. First up, obviously, is India.
The squad was mostly what it was expected to be - I know there was some surprise about Ojha and Rohit Sharma initially, but Ojha had been out of the frame in limited-overs games for a while, and Rohit... well, never mind. Ch...
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