Friday saw Australia become the first team in two years to beat India in a Test match on their home turf. It was a commanding win by nine wickets which leaves the series nicely poised going into the fourth and final Test at Ahmedabad, starting next week. The Test match…

At a time when more and more nations around the world are trying to expand the game by starting T20 leagues, Cheteshwar Pujara remains a man from a different time. A time when the game was played to gain respect of peers and opposition. When financial gains remained secondary. When…

Wasim Akram’s last Test for Pakistan was in January 2002 against Bangladesh. His last ODI was against Zimbabwe in March 2003. At a time when players post retirement have been quick to release autobiographies about their playing career and life in general, for Akram to release ‘Sultan- A Memoir’, written…

The last few weeks have been a crazy ride for Test cricket. England amassed a score of 657 at Rawalpindi at almost a run-a-ball. Australia hammered the West Indies by 419 runs in the day-night Test at Adelaide. It seemed as if the most traditional format of the game had…

With the win over Bangladesh at Adelaide on Wednesday, India have put themselves in prime position for a spot in the semifinals of the T20 World Cup in Australia. The fortunes with the bat has been carried by the imperious Virat Kohli and the sublime Surya Kumar Yadav. The bowling…

In November last year, when India were knocked out of a group stage of an ICC event for the first time since 2012, a new regime under Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid took over with the objective of improving the way India would play T20 cricket in the forthcoming months. …

Cricketers, in the middle of a purple patch, often get attached with giant words that only folks who don’t play the game can think of. When Virat Kohli was in his pomp, the word that got associated with him was ‘swagger’. With Sanath Jayasuriya, it was ‘marauder’. …

Very rarely would a drawn series leave you with a feeling of defeat. …

Rahul Dravid, at most times, is a very measured man. In his playing days, unless something dramatic happened it was difficult to get an emotional reaction out of him. In his short stint as head coach of the Indian men’s team, he has shown similar qualities- willing to speak just…