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Hurt Virat Kohli sets the record straight; next year's World Cup clearly his driving force after salty Test retirement

India, May 18 -- It's been a little over a year since Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket, making him just a one-format international. It's a format that isn't played as widely now ... Read More


The Mumbai Indians meltdown: Hardik's time up; stale run demands reset as finger-pointing, tension all too apparent

India, May 11 -- For 13 consecutive seasons, between 2013 and 2025, Mumbai Indians lost their opening game of every single Indian Premier League campaign. Quirky Fact 2: Despite that, they embarked o... Read More


Rohit Sharma's masterful return speaks of hunger, hurt and a refusal to fade into the sunset

India, May 5 -- "And our very own Rohit Sharma is back." Even before stand-in skipper Suryakumar Yadav uttered the seventh of those eight words, the Wankhede Stadium transformed itself into a cacopho... Read More


Riyan Parag vaping row: RR captain's stupidity sets 'bad example', IPL authorities may not take a lenient stance

India, April 29 -- It ought to have been a night of celebration for Riyan Parag, who not only registered his highest score of a disastrous season with the bat but also earned the privilege of becoming... Read More


The unravelling of LSG captain Rishabh Pant is a sad sight and he is now racing against the clock

India, April 23 -- Rishabh Pant shouldn't be about numbers. He shouldn't be about centuries and fifties, about averages and strike-rates because, well, he is Rishabh Pant. The maverick, the moody geni... Read More


Rishabh Pant's World Cup magic fades in T20 nightmare: Injury and pain compound to leave career at crossroads

India, April 16 -- In a world where even yesterday seems a million miles in the past, 22 months is more than a lifetime, so it's sometimes easy to forget that when India won the T20 World Cup after a ... Read More


Bring him on already, Agarkar: BCCI sitting on a Vaibhav Sooryavanshi goldmine; cotton wool no longer his place

India, April 8 -- If we are not already there, we are fast approaching the point where Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's age should cease to be a talking point, once and for all. How? How do you not talk about ... Read More


Sanju Samson's struggling fairytale: Desperate in CSK's yellow, India's World Cup hero slips into infuriating old habits

India, April 7 -- Deep-throated chants of 'Sanju, Sanju, Sanju' reverberated around the MA Chidambaram Stadium on February 26 as India's openers walked out to kick off the first of their four must-win... Read More


Master vs disciple: Totally resurrected Ishan Kishan looks to outwit his guru Virat Kohli's RCB in a big captaincy test

India, March 28 -- Three weeks. That's all the break that the breathless fans of Indian cricket have been afforded. Three weeks to savour an unprecedented third T20 World Cup title, three weeks to men... Read More


Kolkata, Mumbai overlooked again: BCCI continues to turn a blind eye to India's iconic Test centres

India, March 26 -- It's been a little over ten days since the silver jubilee of that Test match was celebrated, with much pomp and fanfare. That Test match, of course, was India versus Australia, a ga... Read More