Amit Mishra is not a bad performer, but the musical chairs between him and Piyush Chawla makes one believe these are the only two India are left with when it comes to picking a legspinner for the national side. It's hard to see Mishra getting a game in the Champions Trophy in England, but going back and forth between him and Chawla puts a mirror in front of India's declining...
04:11 PM, May 04, 2013
Think of the current crop of Indian players. Think of them in the context of Test cricket for the next five years. Start counting today. How many make it to your thumb hopping on fingers? Just two, Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli. And still there are teeth cringing and fists clenching over Pujara's exclusion from an ODI tournament on its last legs. Not a brow moved over not seeing Zaheer...
02:16 PM, Apr 06, 2013
The pertinence of that question is open to application of logic this time as India's next Test series is eight months away, in South Africa. ...
12:07 PM, Mar 20, 2013
India can still qualify for the third-place playoff if they beat Malaysia and other results pan out in their favour on Saturday. ...
10:04 PM, Mar 15, 2013
India needed a win to stay in contention but after the 0-2 loss can now at best qualify to play for the bronze medal. ...
03:11 PM, Mar 14, 2013
If India play anywhere close to how they did against Pakistan to chalk out a 3-1 win, there is no reason why they can't turn the tables on New Zealand on Thursday to climb further up the points table and stay alive at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. ...
04:37 PM, Mar 13, 2013
India beat Pakistan 3-1 to keep their hopes of winning their sixth Azlan Shah title alive. ...
03:06 PM, Mar 12, 2013
A match against Pakistan brings the best out of Indian sportspersons, and at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament on Tuesday, India will hope exactly that from a young team, especially in a must-win situation after losing the opening two encounters. ...
06:24 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Though India went down 3-4 to Australia, their fighting performance makes them the favourites in the second game against Korea on Sunday. ...
09:39 AM, Mar 10, 2013
India, who have fielded a young team to prepare for the Junior World Cup, are without seniors Sardar Singh, VR Raghunath and SV Sunil. ...
10:22 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Playing in Ipoh but focus on the Junior World Cup in New Delhi - that seems to be how the six participants in this 22nd Sultan Azlan Shah Cup are approaching the tournament, having arrived with an objective to give international exposure to their most talented youngsters. ...
01:06 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Saving the key players from a burnout, putting youngsters through intermittent tests and keeping expectations to a realistic level is how a team drives to the top. The Indian men's hockey coach, Michael Nobbs, has the exact path laid out for his team. ...
08:58 AM, Mar 08, 2013
The hindsight to India's comprehensive win in the Chennai Test last week is that just one bowler and two batsmen touched the international performance bar, and had R Ashwin not recorded his career best match haul of 12 wickets, India could have struggled to bowl out Australia twice. ...
10:12 AM, Feb 28, 2013
India blanked Bangladesh 5-1 in their final match of Round 2, their fifth win in a row, to finish on top of the leaderboard. ...
10:05 PM, Feb 24, 2013
The two available spots from Round 2 went to India and Japan by virtue of finishing No. 1 and 2 respectively in the six-team round-robin format. ...
07:40 PM, Feb 24, 2013
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