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At Sharjah, an ordinary but extremely significant One dayer between a Test team and a novice was held.. yes the first match for Afghanistan at a neutral zone of Sharjah, which has hosted many Internationals from the mid 1980s when Pakistan...

Michael Clarke is on a high – team performing well and he can afford to experiment with his batting or bowling order.   Sri Lanka on the other hand are riddled with on the field and off-field occurrences....

Elsewhere at Perth, India scratched to complete a win.  Chasing 234, Indians were precariously placed at one stage having lost all their specialists, when Virat left needing 53 more to get. In the end those were achieved without further loss...

Today at Perth India play Sri Lanka in the CBS Tri Series – Perth may not be the ideal One day venue with its support for pacers.  Its in fact a re-match of the 2011 WC Finals and MS Dhoni and Virender Sehwag are...

Indian Cricket is really at the Crossroads – just back from the 4-0 whitewash in England, they are fighting at Sydney having already lost the Melbourne Test.  This Test could go only one way.. but before that it is sad that a team is waiting...

The venue now shifts to Sydney from Melbourne but perhaps the position has not altered much.  Indians are quickly 1 down in the Series after that big defeat at Melbourne.  How many times have we seen the...

‘The Nice Guy who finished First’ is one of his books -  this man had a rather disappointing start to his career after his debut in ODI against Sri Lanka in Singer Cup in Singapore after WC 1996 – he was promptly...

It is the pleasure of Test Cricket – a low scoring match and some point of time Aussies had the match totally in their control chasing a modest 241 and cruising at 159/2 – it turned out to be different at Hobart,...