The main interest in the first session today was whether Sehwag would complete his third 300 and continue towards Lara’s record. After adding 9 runs, Sehwag was dismissed by Muralidharan - he later remarked that he was happy with 293!!! All hopes of the crowd went down immediately. Murali must have thought that this was his lucky day and would have harbored thoughts of a big haul of wickets ...
Harsha Bhogle’s article today talks about how India have ignored Rahul Dravid’s landmark of reaching 12,000 runs. This is true to a large extent because of Sachin Tendulkar’s 50th century and the media hype surrounding the accomplishment.Rahul Dravid epitomizes how a player (or a human being) can withstand Peer Pressure in his career as an Indian middle-order batsmen. His entry ...
Now that KKR’s campaign is over (I’m leading the Interblogactic IPL Battle table, btw), I can finally concentrate on the team I really support - the Mumbai Indians. They have been the standout team this season, leading the table from the start and not losing grip. This has been mainly due to the the players they acquired pre-season and their backing of the Indian players. Dhawan has be...
India’s Virender Sehwag has moved to the top of the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen after his heroics during the second Test against South Africa in Kolkata.The opening batsman smashed 165 in the first innings and has gained five places in the latest rankings, displacing team-mate Gautam Gambhir at the top. The 31-year-old from New Delhi is now enjoying the highest rating of his illustr...
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