In cricket, the captain and the coach are the two heads of the family. Together they nurture the team and guide it into the direction of victory. They make match-winners out of gifted players and a team out of a bunch of talented individuals. Like any family, the relationship between the two heads is of […]
Our Dave Tickner feels Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the player to get with ahead of the third Test, which starts on Sunday. Recommended bets: The England v India Test series continues its frenetic pace, the third game of the series getting under way on Sunday – less than a week after the second concluded. And in […]
Physically Challenged Cricket Association of India (PCCAI) is a body that is determined to promote the sport for the disabled in the country. They had recently sent a team of some of the best physically challenged cricketers to South Africa and that unit had emerged successful.Nishad Pai Vaidya traces the story of this organization that […]
That Mahendra Singh Dhoni counts big money is common knowledge. But how valuable is the name ‘Dhoni’? Pretty much, actually. Believe it or not, but the India skipper raked in a whopping $21 million with his name in 2013. In fact, he ranks fifth among the world’s ‘Top 10 Most Valuable Athlete Names’. The list […]
Fast bowlers are a rare breed, there are suppose to be built tough as nails, have physic like a superhero, aggression like lion attacking its prey, strong backs and behind it all a creative mind. Some of the great fast bowlers emerge from the back and the beyond. In England the fast men came from […]
Mahendra Dhoni now has three scores of 50-plus as a captain-’keeper in England. This is now the most by any captain-’keeper in England. England’s Alec Stewart 2 and South African Percy Sherwell 1 are the others who have got 50-plus scores in England as a captain-’keeper. Murali Vijay seems to be having a knack of […]
India posted a competitive 457 and scalped the wicket of Alastair Cook to reduce England to 43/1 on day two of the first Test at Trent Bridge. A brilliant century from Murali Vijay (146), a resolute 82 from MS Dhoni and crucial fifties from Bhuvneshwar Kumar(58) and Mohammad Shami(51) helped India post 457 in the […]
Former Indian middle order batsman VVS Laxman, calling the visitors as the “favourites” to win the five-match Test series against England that begins at Trent Bridge on Wednesday, heaped praises on Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for effective handling of the transition period. Laxman said: “He has done very well as far as the transition […]
