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Best chance to defend Champions Trophy crown but hybrid model unlocks gold rush for India

India, Feb. 19 -- Will Pakistan become the first team to win the Champions Trophy on home patch outright? Can they also become the first side to successfully defend the Champions Trophy title since Au... Read More


India winning ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in Dubai with Kohli, Rohit, Jadeja as kingpins a reality unlikely to be denied

India, Feb. 18 -- India's build-up to the Champions Trophy has been limited but also an unqualified success. During the whole of 2024, they only played three One-Day Internationals, in Colombo in Augu... Read More


Champions Trophy: India bowl twice, bat just 10.4 overs; ICC introduces bizarre rule, robs Ganguly and Co. in the final

India, Feb. 17 -- India and Sri Lanka contested the finals of the third edition of the Champions Trophy for a combined 110.2 overs spread over two days, and yet, there was no outright winner of the to... Read More


Champions Trophy: India bowl twice, bat just 10.4 overs; ICC introduces bizarre rule, robs Ganguly and Co. of solo glory

India, Feb. 17 -- India and Sri Lanka contested the finals of the third edition of the Champions Trophy for a combined 110.2 overs spread over two days, and yet, there was no outright winner of the to... Read More


India at Champions Trophy: Virat Kohli's class, Yuvraj Singh's blitz flatten Pakistan before ultimate payback in 2017

India, Feb. 15 -- India have won all eight head-to-heads against Pakistan in the 50-over World Cup and lost just one of eight games in the T20 World Cup, a crushing ten-wicket defeat in Dubai in Octob... Read More


The best of India at Champions Trophy: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and a match made in heaven

India, Feb. 13 -- After a hat-trick of disastrous campaigns in 2004, 2006 and 2009, India approached the 2013 Champions Trophy in England with cautious optimism on the back of a 3-2 conquest of Englan... Read More


India at Champions Trophy: MS Dhoni's bowling and Virat Kohli's broad bat too good for West Indies

India, Feb. 11 -- In and of itself, India's final league fixture against West Indies at The Wanderers meant little in the context of the 2009 Champions Trophy. Both teams were already eliminated comin... Read More


'Welcome back, skipper. Missed you': Rohit Sharma wins back dressing room trust, shrugs off one of his 'worst feelings'

India, Feb. 10 -- Class always outs. Sometimes, it might take a while, like it did with Rohit Sharma, but 'a while' is very subjective, isn't it? How long can 'a while' be? Less than four months, in ... Read More


India at Champions Trophy: Virender Sehwag saves the day with his 3D impact as South Africa self-destruct yet again

India, Feb. 9 -- It's a word that has been associated with South African cricket for years on end. A word not pleasant in any way imaginable, a word generations of South African cricket fans have come... Read More


People skipped exams to watch the match; a bride's brother went missing on wedding day: Anil Kumble on 26 years of 10/74

India, Feb. 7 -- Test match No. 1443, India vs Pakistan, at the Ferozeshah Kotla (now Arun Jaitley Stadium) in New Delhi. The second game of a two-match series, the first between the teams in India si... Read More