Lonsdale Skinner      

India let Thirimanne off the hook (212)

Ashwin had appealed, Thirimanne was not inside his crease, the finger should have gone up immediately. Spirit of cricket should not have been allowed to come in the way of fair cricket

Discord, dissent hurt Indian team (196)

It has been a long tour with little success to celebrate, and the differences and frustrations between the players are coming out now, in the form of scarcely anticipated bombshells dropped during routine press conferences

Better bowlers, better Test team (119)

India are much better at one-dayers than at Tests because 50-overs cricket allows you to win with good batting and ordinary bowling. Unless that changes, they'll remain limited-overs tigers and five-day sheep

Sehwag's legacy is in his hands (119)

Whether he joins the ranks of the all-time greats depends on how he counters his current slump

Ponting and Tendulkar fight for their utility (99)

Both have been through almost everything in their ODI careers, and still love it enough to fight for it, something they are not accustomed to. It will be fascinating to watch how they come out of the rest of the triangular