That which seemed inevitable, has finally happened. On 22nd Feburary, if India bats first against Australia, it won’t be Gambhir who’d be walking alongside Sehwag to partner and open the innings. Even though this isn’t going to be the first time that these two men wouldn’t go in together in a Test match, it will still [...]

After India’s disconcerting 0-8 scoreline in overseas Test matches in 2011-12, there were calls, especially in the social media, to boycott the IPL. Indian cricket was at its lowest ebb and abandoning the IPL seemed to many the logical choice. It was commonly believed that India’s abysmal showing overseas was thanks to the eight-week-long T20 [...]

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 [...]

Battered and bruised—that’s how I’m feeling after getting a serious pounding over five days in the season opener- the Irani trophy. Yes, the match was in Jaipur—our home ground and yes, the Rest of India team wasn’t as strong a team as it could’ve possibly been, yet it did little to change the outcome of [...]