To the first ball Manish Pandey faced, from medium-pacer Deepak Chahar, he walked down the track and played a wild swish, missing by a foot. It was perhaps the first time in my 15 years of first-class cricket that I saw a frontline batsman act so recklessly at the beginning of an important innings. Was it a [...]

This isn’t the first time that corruption in cricket has been exposed. Sadly it won’t be the last either. Blame me for being a cynic, but such are the times. India TV’s uncovering of the sleaze that has found its way into the country’s cricket may have left romantics like me dismayed, but we’re perhaps the [...]

Morne Morkel bowled two immaculate yorkers to clean up Kallis and Tiwary in two consecutive deliveries. Dale Steyn’s pace was a bit too much to handle for the dangerous Richard Levi. Lasith Malinga made Manish Pandey dance to his tunes before ending his misery. If you missed seeing these dismissals and were told that all this happened [...]