They have a voodoo practitioner among their backroom staffAndy Zaltzman25-Feb-2013I am fairly confident that there were not any actual champagne corks popped in the England dressing room at the sight of Zaheer Khan limbering up…
Plays of the day from the IPL qualifier between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians in DelhiSidharth Monga21-May-2013The slip This was literal. In the seventh over of the innings, when M Vijay went to sweep…
Jason Gillespie and Darren Gough run the rule over England's and Australia's fast bowlingNagraj Gollapudi and Andrew McGlashan06-Jul-2013One area where it is generally accepted that England and Australia are evenly matched is in the pace…
Stats highlights from India's chase of 359 against Australia in the second ODI in JaipurShiva Jayaraman16-Oct-2013 India's chase of 359 was the second highest successful chase in ODIs, after the Johannesburg epic between Australia and…
If you don't agree with the obsessive Tendulkar fan who believes his idol is God, does that make you a Tendulkar hater?Sarath Chandra Jagupilla19-Nov-2013I am what Sachin Tendulkar fans love to call a 'hater'. Everybody…
Plays of the day from the third ODI between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in SharjahAndrew Fidel Fernando22-Dec-2013The run-out Even on his better days Lasith Malinga struggles to hit the stumps from close up, but in…
The Australians in this IPL season seem to love challenging gravityNandakumar Ganesh29-Apr-2014Choice of game I was back at the Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium in anticipation of a run fest, given the match featured Chris…
After limping out of international cricket, Lance Klusener slipped off the radar, but his coaching stint with Dolphins has given them a higher profile and self-beliefFirdose Moonda19-Sep-2014If all that was known of Lance Klusener was…
A little more conversation - between players, the board and the WIPA - could have averted the sorry end to the West Indies tour of IndiaSwaroop Mamidipudi27-Oct-2014People in the Caribbean have said, time and again,…
Angelo Mathews dubbed Lahiru Thirimanne's half-century the most encouraging aspect of Sri Lanka's five-wicket defeat in Hambantota as the batsman continued to prosper in the absence of James Anderson Andrew Fidel Fernando03-Dec-2014At times in the…