Rahul Dravid’s selection for the Champions Trophy is perplexing. In sheer respect of his stature and achievements one refrains from calling this move regressive. I am not sure what Dravid himself makes of this, as he must have moved ahead in life and will all of a sudden have to make some instant changes [...]

MS Dhoni’s salary will be delayed next month. Ditto VVS Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, S. Sreesanth and R.P. Singh. Reason: These India cricketers are among the 200-odd sportspersons employed by Air India. Also on the list are India hockey captain Sandeep Singh and Jhulan Goswami who captains the national women’s cricket [...]

Chris Gayle’s big-hitting prowess has posed enough concerns in the Indian team and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted that the visitors will have to be wary of West Indies’ skipper if they are to dominate the four-match ODI series, starting . The 16-man Indian squad arrived at the Norman Manley International airport and the [...]

India have named a depleted squad without Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan for the one-day tour of West Indies starting later this month, just days after the holders were knocked out of the Twenty20 World Cup. Batsman Tendulkar has opted out of the four-match series while pace bowler Zaheer, who has been struggling with [...]

The Indian cricket selectors announced the team for the upcoming tour of the West Indies. While master blaster Sachin Tendulkar and ace paceman Zaheer Khan have been rested, the selectors have recalled left arm seamer Ashish Nehra in the 16 member squad. Virender Sehwag, who could not take part in the T20 World Cup [...]

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s blunder of sending an inexperienced Ravindra Jadeja ahead of Yuvraj Singh and Yusuf Pathan and his inability to accelerate the run rate cost the reigning champions dearly as they were knocked out of the World Twenty20 tournament by England on a gloomy Sunday night. It is hard to digest [...]

One team is the defending champion and riding high on confidence and the other is more unpredictable than the weather here. But India and the West Indies have a common point — a clutch of explosive cricketers who can enthral the spectators, and precisely that factor will add lustre to the Group E Super Eight [...]

But Sehwag being Sehwag and the vice-captain of the side, the issue can’t be kept under wraps for long. Either he is fit or unfit. In both the cases, the questions are discomforting. If he is fit, he ought not to be sitting on the bench. If he is unfit, then he ought not [...]

Mahendra Dhoni was pleased his choice to bring Yusuf Pathan into the attack as the third over as India beat Bangladesh in their Group A World Twenty20 clash at Trent Bridge. Captain Dhoni brought spinner Yusuf into the attack after seamers Zaheer Khan and Irfan Pathan failed to make the early breakthrough as openers [...]

The stage is set, the world is watching and the first ball is ready to be bowled and it looks like it’s the bowlers who will dominate this year’s Twenty20 World Cup in England. It has been opined that the shortened form of the game is geared too much towards the batsmen but in [...]