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Rohit Sharma's World Cup days are behind him. Harsh as it may be, India's future no longer includes their former skipper

India, July 18 -- The permanence of class against the temporariness of form is one of the great conundrums of professional sport. Form can't trump class, one school argues, convinced that for extraor... Read More


World cricket is poorer today: They don't make men like Ben Stokes anymore

India, June 29 -- Even indefatigable spirits can be broken, even warriors sometimes have had enough, it would appear. Nearly a decade and a half after first gracing the world stage, Ben Stokes, the su... Read More


Scarred, doomed and broken: How the widely-hyped Rishabh Pant-LSG bonhomie went up in smoke

India, June 23 -- It's now official. The most expensive buy in the history of the Indian Premier League will no longer represent the franchise that shelled out a gargantuan Rs.27 crore at the mega auc... Read More


Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's conduct a red flag as harsh realities of the game catch up with a boy entering a man's world

India, June 16 -- Monday threw up the first serious non-cricketing test of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's fledgling career. The 15-year-old will be the first to admit that it was a test he didn't pass, let al... Read More


People's champion Kane Williamson showed nice men can finish first; his retirement leaves a void far beyond NZ cricket

India, June 12 -- Just like that, the Fab Four of Test batting has been chopped in half, with the retirement on Friday of Kane Williamson, the affable former New Zealand captain who has called time on... Read More


Winning is always good but India wouldn't read too much into the only Test against Afghanistan

India, June 8 -- For four days in a row, Richard Pybus fronted the media as Afghanistan's representative, the new head coach repeatedly invoking 'naivete' and 'extreme rustiness' to wish away their te... Read More


Pumped Virat Kohli aces another final, this time with fire and brimstone

India, June 1 -- In Sydney in January 2004, Sachin Tendulkar conjured a remarkable innings in the last of four Tests against Australia, an effort that brought him his highest Test score at the time. H... Read More


It takes a Gill masterpiece, steeped in orthodoxy, to overshadow another Sooryavanshi special

India, May 30 -- For the second time in three nights, teen phenom Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was dismissed in the 90s, caught at third-man. For the second time in four nights, Sai Sudharsan managed to get h... Read More


Sooryavanshi outshone at last: Shubman Gill masterclass, steeped in orthodoxy, shows how it's done

India, May 30 -- For the second time in three nights, teen phenom Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was dismissed in the 90s, caught at third-man. For the second time in four nights, Sai Sudharsan managed to get h... Read More


Baby or not, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi definitely the boss: India's one-man wrecking ball is leaving bowlers mentally scarred

India, May 28 -- We are not playing the 'What-were-you-doing-when-you-were-15-years-old' game. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has already made that passe. What started as a thrilling novelty 12 months back has... Read More