Make room, Anil Kumble, and welcome Rishabh Pant: India's warrior invokes braveheart spirit; defies logic and sanity

India, July 25 -- Anil Kumble. Ten for 74. 619 Test wickets. The leg-spinner with the temperament of a fast bowler. A thinking cricketer, looking every inch the engineer he is by education, whether do... Read More

Rishabh Pant will be back in action if there is even the slightest chance of him being able to stand. But if not.

India, July 24 -- Rishabh Pant has stared the afterlife in the face and lived to tell the tale, so he knows a thing or two about pain. To see him in so much discomfort on the cricket field isn't rare,... Read More

Shubman Gill drags England down from moral high horse in two minutes: 'Let me clear it once and for all.'

India, July 23 -- It took Shubman Gill just two minutes to drag England down from the moral high horse they have clambered on since the third evening of the Lord's Test. The narrative from an obliging... Read More

Virat Kohli gave his number and said, 'If you ever want to.': England's teen's life changed but India legend constant

India, July 22 -- How often does the captain of the opposition, also the best batter in the world at the time, make the effort to meet a 19-year-old on his first tour, whose interest in a five-Test se... Read More

WCL wanted 'happy moments' but India vs Pakistan being called off becomes a cautionary tale of ignoring public sentiment

India, July 20 -- In theory, keeping sports and politics separate is a common and popular refrain, but in reality, it is impossible to do so. The overlap is tangible, the ramifications of pursuing the... Read More

Ravindra Jadeja did everything but conjure a Lord's miracle - Could he have attacked more? If yes.

India, July 15 -- Like the warrior that he is, Ravindra Jadeja waged a spectacular fight. It wasn't violent and counterpunching, it wasn't visceral and aggressive. After all, this wasn't the time for ... Read More

Karun Nair on thin ice after Lord's flop show; Gautam Gambhir, Shubman Gill to think long and hard as axe threat looms

India, July 14 -- For Karun Nair, England was supposed to be the stage where he would sing the redemption song. Where he would revive a Test career that began with so much promise, but ran into a road... Read More

Jasprit Bumrah avoids travesty, India's greatest pacer deservingly gets on Lord's Honours Board: 'When my son grows.'

India, July 12 -- Ajit Agarkar has it, but Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar don't. Chetan Sharma has it, but Anil Kumble doesn't. Their names on the celebrated Lord's Honours Board, that is. In ma... Read More

Owner of Dukes ball-making firm arrives at Lord's after heavy criticism, controversy: 'Players will have broken back.'

India, July 11 -- Dilip Jajodia is in the eye of a storm right now, a storm not necessarily of his making but that has inexorably sucked him in. After all, he is the owner of British Cricket Balls Ltd... Read More

'Dekhna kal, rocket chhodunga': Jasprit Bumrah's missiles to make landfall at Lord's; England ready with Archer

India, July 10 -- 'Dekhna kal, rocket chodunga'. Ravi Shastri is the badshah of bombast, but these four words were uttered in private, without ceremony, to a friend in Cape Town. It was the night of ... Read More

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