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Eden Gardens back in business: The show finally returns to the theatre of VVS Laxman's dreams

India, Nov. 14 -- Think Eden Gardens, and the memories come flooding back - some good, many not-so-good. The not-so-good include the World Cup semifinal heartbreak against Sri Lanka in 1996, when the... Read More


On four-spinner day, Bumrah and Siraj get 7 wickets: Why Gambhir and Gill need to rethink Playing XI even if India win

India, Nov. 14 -- How much is too much? Or, in this instance, how many are too many? We are talking, of course, about India fielding four frontline spinners in their XI for the first of two Tests aga... Read More


Suryakumar Yadav's test before T20 World Cup: Denial, doubt, and the need for a Virat Kohli-like reboot

India, Nov. 6 -- Between November 2019 and September 2022, Virat Kohli went 1,020 days without an international hundred. It was impossible to reconcile to; the run machine who had stacked up three-fig... Read More


Amol Mazumdar: 11167 runs but not good enough to play for India, now coaches women's team to World Cup trophy

India, Nov. 3 -- It wasn't so much freedom as liberation at midnight. Liberation from decades of ups and downs, of frustration and heartbreak. Liberation from years of being so tantalisingly near, yet... Read More


Amol Muzumdar: 11167 runs but not good enough to play for India, now coaches women's team to World Cup trophy

India, Nov. 3 -- It wasn't so much freedom as liberation at midnight. Liberation from decades of ups and downs, of frustration and heartbreak. Liberation from years of being so tantalisingly near, yet... Read More


Indian women's cricket's 1983 moment: World Cup victory a vindication of ongoing revolution

India, Nov. 3 -- All of eight and a half years old, VVS Laxman was so captivated by watching Kapil Dev's team lift the 60-over World Cup in 1983 against all odds that he was doubly determined to immer... Read More


Indian women's cricket's 1983 moment: World Cup victory a vindication of an already ongoing revolution

India, Nov. 3 -- All of eight and a half years old, VVS Laxman was so captivated by watching Kapil Dev's team lift the 60-over World Cup in 1983 against all odds that he was doubly determined to immer... Read More


History beckons Harmanpreet Kaur's India, but the ladies are already inspirational and revolutionary champions

India, Nov. 2 -- The most influential reference point in Indian cricket, inarguably, remains the ultimate glory at the 1983 Prudential World Cup in England. True, by then, India had secured a 3-1 vic... Read More


Jemimah Rodrigues' sparkle slays demons, bursts Australian aura of invincibility as India Women script history

India, Oct. 31 -- "Here we go again." If all fairytales begin with "Once upon a time.", then the not-fairytales are bound by "Here we go again." "Here we go again." was the underlying theme of much o... Read More


Technique gaps and slowing reflex: Why Virat Kohli stands exposed in Australia

India, Oct. 24 -- Caught on the off-side driving away from the body. Trapped leg before by the ball coming in. That's what Virat Kohli's Australian ODI sojourn thus far reads: two innings, 12 deliver... Read More