India, Sept. 19 -- Long before an India cap arrived, the weight of runs had become impossible to ignore. There had been seasons of sustained accumulation, the extraordinary symmetry of 99 and 99 not o... Read More
India, Sept. 18 -- Abhishek Sharma's 108 off 34 balls against Afghanistan in New Delhi was remarkable even by the standards he has begun to set for himself. He reached his hundred in 30 deliveries, st... Read More
India, Sept. 17 -- There was a time, not very long ago, when every Rohit Sharma innings seemed to arrive carrying an uncomfortable question. He was no longer India's ODI captain, he had retired from T... Read More
India, Sept. 16 -- There are IPL seasons remembered through mountains of runs, 25-wicket campaigns and awards collected at the end of a tournament. This was not one of them. The numbers beside one Raj... Read More
India, Sept. 16 -- India's ODI squad for the West Indies series comes with an obvious caveat. The Asian Games have taken away several regular white-ball names, while Hardik Pandya is still working his... Read More
India, Sept. 14 -- Sanju Samson had already found two boundaries, and India were hardly under pressure. Chasing 157 against Afghanistan in Delhi, there was time for the opener to settle into an inning... Read More
India, Sept. 14 -- There was a point in Indian cricket when Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik and a young left-handed opener from Nagpur were travelling through the same age-group system, sharing dressing ... Read More
India, Sept. 13 -- Some matches become immortal almost immediately. Australia's 434 and South Africa's 438 at Johannesburg in 2006 remains one of ODI cricket's defining games, recalled every time a te... Read More
India, Sept. 12 -- There are domestic records that suggest a player was unlucky not to have enjoyed a longer international career. Then there are numbers so extreme that the international record besid... Read More
India, Sept. 12 -- When the Mumbai Cricket Association decided to name lounges at the Wankhede Stadium after Sachin Tendulkar, Ajinkya Rahane and Madhav Mantri, two of the names needed little introduc... Read More