Ind vs Ban – 1st Test – Under all conditions, R Ashwin + Chepauk = Magic
It’s midday. The crowd is quiet. Maybe even bored. Many of them have come in Virat Kohli shirts. The silence as he fell is already being talked about for a cameo in the next Quiet Place movie. Someone comes out…
SL vs NZ – 1st Test – Andrew Fidel Fernando – Yes, you are still in the Kamindu Mendis fever dream
Look at the list of Kamindu Mendis’ results and these innings stand out: 9 for 17 in Chattogram, 12 for 25 at Old Trafford, 4 for 5 at Lord’s. Eleven Test knocks are in, these are the only innings in…
Chepauk’s red-soil pitch presents India with a choice: three seamers or three spinners?
Should they play three fast bowlers or three spinners? That is a decision Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir will have to make when they sit down to finalise India’s XI for the first Test against Bangladesh, which begins on September…
Eng vs Aus, 1st T20I – Does the all-rounder fest between England and Australia set the course for the future of T20?
An England side half their strength travelled to Australia on a bitterly cold night at the Utilita Bowl in Hampshire: this was not a T20 international to be long remembered. Travis Head, the match’s top scorer, was dismissed in the…
Pak vs Ban 2nd Test – Bangladesh on top – Nahid Rana – A new Express becomes famous in Rawalpindi
Nahid Rana runs like the wind from the Pavilion End at the Rawalpindi Stadium. He shoots the ball like a slingshot, from a great height – after all, he is 1.88 m tall. The 140 km/h throws slam into Litton…
Pak vs Ban, 2nd Test – Coach Jason Gillespie – We have already lost if we go out expecting to lose
The day may have ended with blankets spread across the Rawalpindi stadium as monsoon rain lashed the ground, but Pakistan head coach Jason Gillespie has had a baptism of fire in his new role. With a day to go before…
