India, Sept. 6 -- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was supposed to be the young man everyone watched at Chepauk. At 15, already carrying a reputation that has grown far beyond domestic cricket, he walked out for ... Read More
India, Sept. 5 -- Lord's has a way of making even accomplished cricketers conscious of history. In August 1996, however, the old ground seemed to exert no such intimidation over the 15-year-old leadin... Read More
India, Sept. 3 -- For years after Sunil Gavaskar, India kept searching for somebody who could make opening the batting feel settled rather than temporary. By early 2002, they seemed to have found one.... Read More
India, Sept. 2 -- There are spells that survive because of the bowler, and there are others that survive because of what they did to the opposition. Mohali in October 1999 belongs emphatically to the ... Read More
India, Sept. 2 -- In Bombay cricket of the late 1980s, being exceptional was not always enough. The city was producing young batters at such a frightening rate that even a junior cricketer good enough... Read More
India, Sept. 1 -- At 19, an Indian leg-spinner walked into Test cricket against perhaps the most intimidating batting side of his age and produced something the game had never quite seen. Across two i... Read More
India, Aug. 31 -- Indian cricket loves the all-rounder. It has spent years discussing what Ravindra Jadeja allows a Test XI to do, how Hardik Pandya changes the construction of a white-ball side, and ... Read More
India, Aug. 31 -- An 89 in your second ODI should normally buy you a third. Add a Player-of-the-Match award, and the expectation becomes even stronger. Yet one Indian opener walked away from Bengaluru... Read More
India, Aug. 31 -- The easiest way to misread Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's 92 against Central Zone is to look only at the scorecard. Ninety-two from 81 balls, seven fours, seven sixes and a strike rate of 11... Read More
India, Aug. 30 -- Indian cricket was searching hard for fast bowlers at the beginning of the 2000s when a tall, wiry Mumbai quick suddenly appeared with something instantly recognisable about him. The... Read More