November 10,2005 01:07:13 AM
The most difficult question to answer, after yet another Sri Lankan drubbing in this seven-match series, is: Which one of the five wins has ...
Thu, Nov 10, 2005November 09,2005 00:22:15 AM
India will take the field tomorrow under the leadership of an opening batsman trying to regain his form and not quite sure of his position i...
Wed, Nov 09, 2005November 08,2005 00:05:33 AM
Another run feast is on cards as India and Sri Lanka meet for the sixth ODI at the Rajkot Municipal Corporation ground here on Wednesday. It...
Tue, Nov 08, 2005November 08,2005 00:04:12 AM
In the fickle world of international cricket, one night can change a lot of things for various people. The morning after India’s first ...
Tue, Nov 08, 2005November 07,2005 00:47:35 AM
Sachin Tendulkar wasn’t there. The other big hitters Virender Sehwag, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh had just one boundary betwe...
Mon, Nov 07, 2005November 07,2005 00:46:38 AM
Team India’s babies’ night out at Motera ended in an anti-climax. The bunch of 11 lost the way after a promising start. With Sachi...
Mon, Nov 07, 2005November 06,2005 00:49:59 AM
The series may be dead but the interest in it is very much alive, if only in the context of India trying out new faces and resting old hands...
Sun, Nov 06, 2005November 06,2005 00:20:09 AM
Greg Chappell has tasted double success this series. One is the 4-0 lead India have taken; the other is Harbhajan Singh, the black sheep who...
Sun, Nov 06, 2005October 30,2005 00:59:21 AM
In the 12 ODI games India have played under Greg Chappell they’ve had five openers, eight one-drop batsmen, four each coming in at Nos ...
Sun, Oct 30, 2005October 26,2005 00:23:05 AM
This was not the Sachin Tendulkar of old; this was the Sachin of almost a lifetime ago, so long has it been since we saw the world’s le...
Wed, Oct 26, 2005October 26,2005 00:00:00 AM
Exactly a month ago, Team India was in meltdown mode. September 25, for those who’ve forgotten, is the day Chappell’s e-mail becam...
Wed, Oct 26, 2005October 25,2005 00:00:00 AM
Their tone was the same, their thoughts identical. As Rahul Dravid addressed his first press conference as full-fledged captain, an almost-b...
Tue, Oct 25, 2005October 23,2005 00:00:00 AM
Questions are bound to arise when the world’s second-best one-day team loses to a third-string Mumbai team, one lacking not just Tendul...
Sun, Oct 23, 2005October 22,2005 00:46:18 AM
Fresh ideas don’t brew by themselves. You need prime movers with potboilers. Just like India coach Greg Chappell, promising ’surpr...
Sat, Oct 22, 2005October 21,2005 00:13:39 AM
The biggest nightmare for any rising Indian pacer is playing an ODI series at home early in his career. The dead tracks are littered with th...
Fri, Oct 21, 2005October 20,2005 00:20:07 AM
There was no Rahul Dravid and there was no Virender Sehwag either at the first day of the preparatory camp for the Sri Lanka ODIs. An extend...
Thu, Oct 20, 2005October 19,2005 00:47:41 AM
But for the rains, everything is going according to script for the Indian coach Greg Chappell: a highly-competitive Challenger tournament, a...
Wed, Oct 19, 2005October 07,2005 00:00:00 AM
So now we can fully appreciate what Greg Chappell has been going on about. The India coach has repeatedly stressed the values of team spirit...
Fri, Oct 07, 2005September 28,2005 01:36:45 AM
A clear demarcation of roles for coach Greg Chappell and skipper Sourav Ganguly. This was one of the key points around which the BCCI spun o...
Wed, Sep 28, 2005September 26,2005 00:00:00 AM
Greg Chappell’s e-mail to the BCCI on Sourav Ganguly is a severe indictment of the Indian captain. But the 2,600-plus word letter has a...
Mon, Sep 26, 2005September 25,2005 02:15:14 AM
Fading or falling, it’s always nice to be a star in Kolkata. Ask Mithun Chakraborty, who’s face is up on posters all over the city...
Sun, Sep 25, 2005September 24,2005 02:11:52 AM
Amid the usual crowd of safari suits and Congress whites at the BCCI AGM was a bunch of men who stood out by virtue of their dress: Formal s...
Sat, Sep 24, 2005September 24,2005 01:51:42 AM
The city where India’s cricket team had staged a famous turnaround four years ago inspired Jagmohan Dalmiya to do some bouncing back of...
Sat, Sep 24, 2005September 24,2005 00:29:04 AM
At marathon contests like this one, there’s a simple device to judge the day’s winner: whoever holds the last press conference. Th...
Sat, Sep 24, 2005September 23,2005 01:58:51 AM
FROM THE PAVILIONWanted: legal eagles batting together. ‘‘Like the Indian team, we need to travel with a support staff — a su...
Fri, Sep 23, 2005