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Too many changes, haphazard planning: India's Test team gripped by climate of uncertainty

India, Nov. 18 -- One of the hallmarks of a champion outfit is consistency in selection and transparency in communication. These used to be stellar character traits in Indian cricket even until a year... Read More


Hoist by their own petard, Gautam Gambhir's India must shun square turners at home to turn the corner

India, Nov. 16 -- It's official now - far from being invincible, India are actually vulnerable while playing at home. And much of it is of their own making. It was unthinkable even 13 months ago that... Read More


'Too shy' India didn't ask for a rank turner against South Africa in embarrassing homecoming for Eden Gardens

India, Nov. 15 -- This English summer threw up a rare eventuality - all five Tests between the hosts and Shubman Gill's India went to the fifth day. Four were decided in the final session of the match... Read More


Eden Gardens back in business: The show finally returns to the theatre of VVS Laxman's dreams

India, Nov. 14 -- Think Eden Gardens, and the memories come flooding back - some good, many not-so-good. The not-so-good include the World Cup semifinal heartbreak against Sri Lanka in 1996, when the... Read More


On four-spinner day, Bumrah and Siraj get 7 wickets: Why Gambhir and Gill need to rethink Playing XI even if India win

India, Nov. 14 -- How much is too much? Or, in this instance, how many are too many? We are talking, of course, about India fielding four frontline spinners in their XI for the first of two Tests aga... Read More


Suryakumar Yadav's test before T20 World Cup: Denial, doubt, and the need for a Virat Kohli-like reboot

India, Nov. 6 -- Between November 2019 and September 2022, Virat Kohli went 1,020 days without an international hundred. It was impossible to reconcile to; the run machine who had stacked up three-fig... Read More


Amol Mazumdar: 11167 runs but not good enough to play for India, now coaches women's team to World Cup trophy

India, Nov. 3 -- It wasn't so much freedom as liberation at midnight. Liberation from decades of ups and downs, of frustration and heartbreak. Liberation from years of being so tantalisingly near, yet... Read More


Amol Muzumdar: 11167 runs but not good enough to play for India, now coaches women's team to World Cup trophy

India, Nov. 3 -- It wasn't so much freedom as liberation at midnight. Liberation from decades of ups and downs, of frustration and heartbreak. Liberation from years of being so tantalisingly near, yet... Read More


Indian women's cricket's 1983 moment: World Cup victory a vindication of ongoing revolution

India, Nov. 3 -- All of eight and a half years old, VVS Laxman was so captivated by watching Kapil Dev's team lift the 60-over World Cup in 1983 against all odds that he was doubly determined to immer... Read More


Indian women's cricket's 1983 moment: World Cup victory a vindication of an already ongoing revolution

India, Nov. 3 -- All of eight and a half years old, VVS Laxman was so captivated by watching Kapil Dev's team lift the 60-over World Cup in 1983 against all odds that he was doubly determined to immer... Read More