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Pant, Shami and the towering Brar prospect: India's Afghanistan Test squad quietly opens door to a new red-ball order

India, May 20 -- It's only a one-off Test against Afghanistan, outside the ambit of the World Test Championship (alongside Zimbabwe and Ireland, Afghanistan are not a part of the WTC), but it can't be... Read More


Hurt Virat Kohli sets the record straight; next year's World Cup clearly his driving force after salty Test retirement

India, May 18 -- It's been a little over a year since Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket, making him just a one-format international. It's a format that isn't played as widely now ... Read More


The Mumbai Indians meltdown: Hardik's time up; stale run demands reset as finger-pointing, tension all too apparent

India, May 11 -- For 13 consecutive seasons, between 2013 and 2025, Mumbai Indians lost their opening game of every single Indian Premier League campaign. Quirky Fact 2: Despite that, they embarked o... Read More


Rohit Sharma's masterful return speaks of hunger, hurt and a refusal to fade into the sunset

India, May 5 -- "And our very own Rohit Sharma is back." Even before stand-in skipper Suryakumar Yadav uttered the seventh of those eight words, the Wankhede Stadium transformed itself into a cacopho... Read More


Riyan Parag vaping row: RR captain's stupidity sets 'bad example', IPL authorities may not take a lenient stance

India, April 29 -- It ought to have been a night of celebration for Riyan Parag, who not only registered his highest score of a disastrous season with the bat but also earned the privilege of becoming... Read More


The unravelling of LSG captain Rishabh Pant is a sad sight and he is now racing against the clock

India, April 23 -- Rishabh Pant shouldn't be about numbers. He shouldn't be about centuries and fifties, about averages and strike-rates because, well, he is Rishabh Pant. The maverick, the moody geni... Read More


Rishabh Pant's World Cup magic fades in T20 nightmare: Injury and pain compound to leave career at crossroads

India, April 16 -- In a world where even yesterday seems a million miles in the past, 22 months is more than a lifetime, so it's sometimes easy to forget that when India won the T20 World Cup after a ... Read More


Bring him on already, Agarkar: BCCI sitting on a Vaibhav Sooryavanshi goldmine; cotton wool no longer his place

India, April 8 -- If we are not already there, we are fast approaching the point where Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's age should cease to be a talking point, once and for all. How? How do you not talk about ... Read More


Sanju Samson's struggling fairytale: Desperate in CSK's yellow, India's World Cup hero slips into infuriating old habits

India, April 7 -- Deep-throated chants of 'Sanju, Sanju, Sanju' reverberated around the MA Chidambaram Stadium on February 26 as India's openers walked out to kick off the first of their four must-win... Read More