
When you first attend cricket coaching at your local club, you see immediately that a great importance is given to being disciplined in your attitude ...

08:25 AM, Feb 14, 2013

Top-class cricket teams are getting skittled out for shambolic totals such as 47 and 49, as witnessed in Tests in South Africa this year. They ...

08:22 PM, Feb 08, 2013

Before Mohali, Rohit Sharma had opened an ODI innings for India on three occasions. The matches were played against South Africa in their den, just ...

11:37 AM, Jan 25, 2013

There is a perception amongst common cricket fans that India is a graveyard when it comes to producing quality pace bowlers. After Kapil Dev there ...

04:03 PM, Jan 24, 2013

Waqar Younis told the story with relish of a one-day game in 1989 when he dismissed Kris Srikkanth twice in two balls. First an lbw ...

03:53 PM, Jan 18, 2013

So there will be no Pakistani players in season two of the Bangladesh Premiere League. The Pakistan Cricket Board has denied to give No-objection certificates ...

11:27 AM, Jan 18, 2013

Virat Kohli, as a cricketer, makes you think. When he led India to the 2008 Under-19 World Cup triumph, he made those watching think of ...

12:56 PM, Jan 17, 2013

One-day cricket is fighting hard for survival. And this truth is reflected much from the myriad rule changes undertaken by the ICC every couple of ...

12:38 PM, Jan 10, 2013

It was indeed a difficult decision to announce my retirement from first-class cricket, which I did a few days ago. It's too early to assess ...

03:33 PM, Jan 08, 2013

Players are often selected on potential, not for what they might bring to a team immediately, but the difference they could make in a couple ...

02:14 PM, Jan 07, 2013

As per Google, a punching bag is 'a stuffed or inflated bag, typically cylindrical or pear-shaped, suspended so it can be punched for exercise or ...

09:59 AM, Jan 03, 2013

Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest player to have batted in coloured clothes. For nearly two decades after he made his one-day international debut, Tendulkar was ...

10:52 AM, Dec 25, 2012

The last time the cricketing world witnessed the Pakistan cricket team in action was during the ICC World Twenty20 in September. They dazzled, they frustrated. ...

12:10 PM, Dec 21, 2012

Where do India go from here? Even in the days when they were lambs abroad, they were usually tigers at home. Now they are pussycats, ...

03:08 PM, Dec 18, 2012

The Railways team which is used to starting its cricket season on placid tracks of Karnail Singh stadium in front of hardly any spectators is ...

09:40 PM, Oct 30, 2012

This weekend was a bag of mixed emotions. On one side, I was elated to hear the news of Yuvraj Singh getting back to cricket ...

03:55 PM, Sep 10, 2012

The other day my son was learning how to cycle - to put it right, the act of balancing. "If you don't pay attention, the ...

01:00 PM, Aug 30, 2012

A very, very special career innings has come to an end. VVS Laxman, the backbone of the Indian middle order for the past decade, has ...

04:22 PM, Aug 20, 2012

In March 2008, a pubescent bunch of boys were being feted in a double-decker bus from Bangalore's Airport Road and up the landmark MG Road ...

10:46 PM, Aug 09, 2012

Their educational system says 'B' for Bandook (gun), ingraining hatred towards India in innocent minds. But India remains insistent on 'B' for Brotherhood, whether Pakistan ...

02:01 PM, Jul 17, 2012