Champions Trophy 2017

Are Ashwin and Jadeja declining ODI forces?

Jun 19, 2017: India's two leading spinners took only five wickets between them in the Champions Trophy, but is that a surprise considering how little one-day cricket they have played recently?

Champions Trophy 2017

India plug big hole, but other leaks open up

Jun 19, 2017: Never before have India's quicks done as well as they did at the Champions Trophy. While that is cause to celebrate, the middle-order and spin departments prompt questions

India news

Ashwin plans on doing 'something new' at Champions Trophy

May 24, 2017: R Ashwin hopes to unleash a few new tricks at the Champions Trophy, to stay one step ahead of his opponents

India news

Rohit, Ashwin, Shami return for Champions Trophy

May 8, 2017: Mohammed Shami, who last played ODIs in the 2015 World Cup, was among the 15 men chosen to represent India in England

IPL 2017

All-time IPL XI : The spinners

Apr 22, 2017: Pick your two spinners for our all-time IPL XI and help put together the team with our panel of experts

India home season review

Jadeja voted best player of India's home season

Apr 3, 2017: In ESPNCricinfo's poll on India's 13-Test-long home season, the readers agreed with an expert panel on five of seven questions

How significant are India's gains this season?

Apr 2, 2017: They have greater depth in their bowling now, and a few of their batsmen have made large strides

IPL 2017 news

Ashwin to give IPL a miss, Vijay doubtful

Mar 31, 2017: The offspinner will be out of action for six to eight weeks, but is expected to regain full fitness ahead of India's title defence at the Champions Trophy in June

The best bowling pairs in a season

Mar 31, 2017: Ashwin and Jadeja took 153 wickets in the 13 Tests they played in 2016-17. A look at other bowling pairs who excelled in a season

Season review 2016-17

India's season of scraps and fightbacks

Mar 30, 2017: They won ten of 13 Tests in 2016-17, and lost one, but it wasn't all plain sailing: in nine matches, they fought back from difficult situations

ICC news

India take million-dollar prize for finishing No. 1

Mar 28, 2017: India have finished at the top of the ICC Test rankings for the second successive year after beating Australia 2-1 in the four-Test series

India v Australia, 3rd Test, Ranchi, 5th day

Ashwin's late entry poses questions

Mar 20, 2017: Did Virat Kohli get his tactics right on the final day in Ranchi? Going by his fast bowlers' lines and R Ashwin's late introduction, the Indian captain took a few puzzling calls

Indian Premier League 2017

Knocking on (national) eleven's door

Mar 18, 2017: The IPL has catapulted many unknown faces on to the international scene over the years. Here are ten of IPL's best finds

Four six-fors in a Test, and the highest last-wicket stand in ODIs

Mar 14, 2017: Also: who missed the largest number of Tests over the course of a career?

It's 4am, do you know where your Test cricket is?

Mar 9, 2017: Tuning in to a cracker of a Test in a time zone more than five hours ahead of yours is quite the tonic

India v Australia, 2nd Test, Bengaluru

Smith-DRS incident was like 'an Under-10 game' - Ashwin

Mar 8, 2017: R Ashwin and Cheteshwar Pujara on the Smith-DRS incident, on needling David Warner, and the forehead-pointing incident that mimicked Mitchell Starc

Australia in India 2016-17

Warner in need of radical change in approach against Ashwin

Mar 8, 2017: A solid defensive game, rotation of strike and adding boundary options - Aakash Chopra analyses what the Australian opener needs to do to succeed against the offspinner

India v Australia, 2nd Test, Bengaluru, 2nd day

India's problems amplified by match situation

Mar 5, 2017: India's decision to go with four bowlers meant each of them had to step up - a job they did and would have felt happier about had the match situation been different

India v Australia, 2nd Test, Bengaluru, 2nd day

Left-handers win the battle v Ashwin

Mar 5, 2017: R Ashwin has a Test average of less than 20 against left-handers, and dismisses them once every 45 balls, but in Australia's first innings he bowled 221 balls at them and returned figures of 1 for 62

India news

Kohli, Ashwin win top BCCI awards

Mar 1, 2017: Virat Kohli will receive the award for the International Cricketer of the Year whereas R Ashwin will win the Dilip Sardesai Award for the best performance in the bilateral series between India and West Indies last year