Bangalore: A stomach injury that cut short his England tour might not be the only worry for Harbhajan Singh now. The veteran off-spinner has come under fire for his bad patch. Convalescing at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) here, he talked to TOI about the ebb and flow of his career, returned the brickbats in [...]
Birmingham: Four months ago, when Duncan Fletcher became Indian cricket’s celebrated new import, he surely knew what he was getting into. After all, the team had just won the World Cup; it had been No. 1 in Tests for some time too. Something else, though, would have been on top of his mind: expectations from the [...]
SACHIN Tendulkar is carrying a burden that is far heavier than that his fans have placed on him over the years. I do not know what it is, maybe the century of centuries maybe one of those secret goals that he sets for himself, and I don’t think anyone will know it for his mind is a [...]
INDIA’S reign at the top may have ended. It’s plain to see that we are out of our depth in this series. There is no shame in losing to a better team and in these conditions, it’s a bit of a mismatch. Despite the advantage of the toss in the two Tests, we were well and truly [...]
Birmingham: Some Indians might have thought that they had wandered off into the wrong place; some others might even have felt that they had walked into a gas chamber. Indeed, it was one of those days at the Edgbaston ground on Thursday: slow, painful and torturous. England held the edge all day through, and they [...]
Kandy: Fast bowler Mitchell Johnson, playing in his 100th One-day International,took a career best six for 31 to bowl Australia to a comfortable seven wickets win over Sri Lanka in the first ODI at the Pallakele Stadium on Wednesday. Johnson who came on to bowl as the sixth bowler, took a wicket off his third [...]
London: Former captain Sunil Gavaskar believes England’s cricketers would have “hit the panic button” and talked of leaving the series midway if the UK riots had happened in India. “No question about it, they would have been pressing the panic button. They would have been talking in terms of the team returning home. That is [...]
Birmingham: Virender Sehwag had a blank look on his face when England’s players went up in appeal on the very first delivery that he faced on Wednesday morning. He had moved forward, and seeing the line just outside the off-stump, shouldered arms. The ball pitched and nipped back sharply, to go dangerously close past him. [...]
Bir mingham: Mahendra Singh Dhoni must have felt the chill when he walked in to bat on Wednesday afternoon. A heavy breeze was blowing across the Edgbaston ground, the sky was still overcast and India had already crumbled to 92 for five. He knew that his moment had come. After being 2-0 down, and at [...]
New Delhi: Forced out of the Indian Test and ODI teams by a freak finger injury, Yuvraj Singh is in London now, preparing for his charity foundation dinner to be held at Lord’s on August 15. The ongoing rioting has caught the southpaw unawares and he says he has just two wishes before he heads home [...]