Sachin Tendulkar is expected to dine on New Zealand’s bowling when the three-match Test series with India starts on Thursday in Ahmedabad. The master batsman, enjoying a memorable year at age 37, will start fresh after helping India sweep both home Tests against Australia last month then opting out of the three one-dayers. Tendulkar has [...]
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 ...
Starts in a couple hours, and has the potential to be either really entertaining or a snoozefest. We’ve seen some great cricket in the last few weeks, so groundsman permitting, this should be fun to watch.
Here are the squads, with the likely XI in bold:
India: MS Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag (vice-capt), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Cheteshwar Pujara, M Vijay, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendu...
The Little Master WikipediaYet another research report was done recently by a set of researchers in Australia on the best batsman in the history of cricket - the result was a known one. The best batsman in the world was Sir Don Bradman.There were changes in the remaining batsmen based on their averages. But, there is a fundamental flaw in this process, as per my thinking.Why are we trying to inclu...
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