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Rohit deserves a break in India’s Test team
For the last couple of years while analyzing the younger crop of players, I have always held the view that Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are the two best bets for the future. They are the front runners to take over when the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/06/24/rohit-deserves-a-break-in-indias-test-team/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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India’s Crisis Man
He walked out to bat for India for the first time in a Test match exactly 15 years ago. Today Rahul Dravid is playing his 150th Test for the country and has run up the kind of record that is truly eye rubbing and mind boggling. ... <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/06/21/indias-crisis-man/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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India vs West Indies: David vs Goliath?
Despite having won just two of their nine Test tours of West Indies, heavyweights India should outclass the hosts this time. <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/06/18/india-vs-west-indies-david-vs-goliath/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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India’s spin tradition in safe hands
India's spin tradition is so strong that the cupboard can never be bare. One great spin bowler retires and another suitable candidate takes his place. That's how the tradition has been carried through 75 years ever since Vinoo Mankad, the first world clas <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/06/15/indias-spin-tradition-in-safe-hands/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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When Indians Were Glorious in Defeat
In 1967, with just 124 runs to defend, India's three-man bowling attack made England sweat. A recap of the game at Leeds. <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/06/12/when-indians-were-glorious-in-defeat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Trott is mentally very strong
Suddenly the most talked about batsman in world cricket is not Sachin Tendulkar or Ricky Ponting or Jacques Kallis. Jonathon Trott has now not only taken over at the top of the averages but is also the most discussed and analyzed batsman not just in Test <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/06/08/trott-is-mentally-very-strong/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Salim Durrani – Indian Cricket’s Original Rockstar
He hit sixes on demand, he acted alongside Parveen Babi, and he was a crowd favourite. BCCI's lifetime achievement award to him is much-deserved. <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/06/03/salim-durrani-indian-crickets-original-rockstar/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Sri Lanka are the new ‘lambs’ abroad
There was a time when the tagline "tigers at home, lambs abroad" was applied to India. Not anymore. The Indians have won at least one Test in every country, shared contests in Australia and South Africa, won a series in England, Pakistan and Wes <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/06/01/sri-lanka-are-the-new-lambs-abroad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Indian selectors looking ahead
The controversy over club vs country, the debates over too much cricket and the injuries to various key players and the reasons as to why and how all this happened can be kept aside for the time being. The most positive aspect of the selection of the Indi <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/05/28/indian-selectors-looking-ahead/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Rahul Sharma knows his time will come
One must be careful in assessing how good a player is based on performances in the IPL. We have had the examples of Manpreet Gony and Ashok Dinda to name but two who were hurriedly given India caps following their showing in the competition. ... <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/05/23/rahul-sharma-knows-his-time-will-come/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Test cricket is alive and kicking
With all the frenetic activity associated with the Indian Premier League and Twenty20 my attention has been diverted to the pleasures of Test match cricket. Yes, pleasures for as a bit of an old timer, as a traditionalist who grew up on a staple diet of f <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/05/17/test-cricket-is-alive-and-kicking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Fletcher ready for most demanding job
Well begun is half done goes the well known adage. These are very early days but at least Duncan Fletcher has made the right initial moves. At his first press conference since taking over as India coach the 62-year-old former Zimbabwe captain came across <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/05/15/fletcher-ready-for-most-demanding-job/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Day-night Tests are keeping with the times
With the ICC Cricket Committee coming out strongly in favour of day-night Test matches to save the game's traditional format it is no more a question of whether but when the inaugural Test under lights will be played. ... <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/05/13/day-night-tests-are-keeping-with-the-times/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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The IPL and its impact
Let's face facts. Twenty20 is here to stay and play a major role in the development of the game and its finances. It's not a passing fad. It is here to entertain and to evolve and is very much a part of the times in which we live in. For today's generatio <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/05/11/the-ipl-and-its-impact/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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What ails the West Indies?
What is wrong with West Indian cricket? Everything it would seem. On and off the field it lurches from one crisis to another. With the players and the Cricket Board at loggerheads it is unlikely that things will improve. Perhaps this is reflected by the o <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/05/07/what-ails-the-west-indies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Fletcher doesn’t have to try too hard
He was one of the front runners for the job and as such Duncan Fletcher's appointment as Gary Kirsten's successor as Indian coach is not exactly a surprise. At 62 he is the oldest of the four foreign coaches that the Indians have had since John Wright too <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/05/01/fletcher-doesnt-have-to-try-too-hard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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No clear favourites in IPL
Just over a fortnight into the IPL and it is clear that the fourth edition of the immensely popular tournament has done much to bring out the best of the Twenty20 format. The competition has seen everything – huge hits, big scores including hundreds <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/04/25/no-clear-favourites-in-ipl/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Tendulkar’s will to succeed makes him a feared opponent
Sachin Tendulkar turns 38 on Sunday, he is in his 22nd year in international cricket and yet there is no talk about him riding off into the sunset. Why should there be when he is playing as well as ever, the runs are being stroked fluently and the big sco <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/04/22/tendulkars-will-to-succeed-makes-him-a-feared-opponent/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Gavaskar: The father figure of Indian cricket
Exactly 40 years ago this week a 21-year-old Indian batsman in his debut series notched up a fabulous feat that went a long way in steering India to a historic triumph over the West Indies in the five-Test contest. To the younger generation brought up on <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/04/15/gavaskar-the-father-figure-of-indian-cricket/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Why the IPL is a success
The appetite of the Indian cricket fan is insatiable. I for one was under the impression that they would have had their plates overfull with six weeks of World Cup fare and reckoned that the response for IPL-4 which commenced just six days after the final <a href="http://healthout-dr.bagmane.corp.yahoo.com/yahoocricketcolumns/2011/04/14/why-the-ipl-is-a-success/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>