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Coast to coast, hunting a win

Our correspondent shuttles between Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth in the wake of Dhoni and Co

01-Feb-2015•Sidharth Monga

MS Dhoni runs into finishing trouble

MS Dhoni the lethal, calculated finisher has gone missing of late; maybe it's time he took the pressure off himself and batted higher up the order, in order to regain his last-overs mojo ahead of the World Cup knockouts

29-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

Off-stump blues leave Dhawan flailing

The out-of-form Shikhar Dhawan still has the backing of his captain, but there's no denying his slump has arrived at an inconvenient time for India and his technical issues have to be sorted out before they attempt to defend the World Cup

26-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga at the SCG

Adelaide conspicuous by Australia Day absence

Amid indignation in South Australia over the moving of the Australia Day fixture to Sydney, Cricket Australia's hopes of gaining a financial windfall in the biggest market in the country were washed away

26-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig at the SCG

Kohli at No. 4 - defensive or practical?

It seems Virat Kohli is to not bat before the 12th or 13th over to strengthen the middle and the lower middle order. It suggests a lack of confidence in what was supposed to be India's strength in their title defence: their batting

21-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

Rohit finds the happy middle ground

Rohit Sharma's 138 at the MCG had a refreshing urgency, the lack of which has often confounded observers who believe he doesn't necessarily have to go slow at the start

19-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

England's 1% chance of winning the World Cup

Plus, mind-boggling stats from the Australia-India series

15-Jan-2015•Andy Zaltzman

Into the mind of the bowlologist

Damien Fleming explains a few of the concepts he cooked up, his fondness for hard-rock and dishes on who hid a Britney Spears CD in their bag

13-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

Bill Lawry's fancier life

The loudest appealer on the field when he played, the most excitable commentator when he called the game, Bill Lawry talks about his passion for pigeon-racing

12-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

Most runs by No. 4 batsmen, and the key partnerships

Stats highlights from a series that dominated by batsmen almost throughout

12-Jan-2015•S Rajesh

Roaches and pigeons, but no gulls

Our correspondent gets acquainted with Australian fauna, and refuses to answer questions about his wardrobe

12-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

Australia unearth two promising prospects

Australia claimed the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by beating India 2-0. Here's a rating of the performances of players who made those results

11-Jan-2015•Brydon Coverdale

India's tour carried by three batsmen

India lost the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by going down 0-2 in Australia. Here's a rating of the performances of players who made those results

11-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

New captain, old headache

Virat Kohli, who has promised aggressiveness taking over as captain from the much-maligned MS Dhoni, has begun to realise the problems Dhoni faced

11-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

The sangfroid that saved India

Faced with the negative momentum that threatened to drag India down, Ajinkya Rahane and Bhuvneshwar Kumar showed plenty of self-possession to pull their team to safety

10-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga at the SCG

Australia 2, India 0, Pitches 4

Australia won this series in spite of some of the flattest pitches seen down under for years. It is three decades since Melbourne and Sydney both ended in stalemate

10-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig at the SCG

Four Tests, 5870 runs

Stats highlights from the fifth day of the fourth Test between India and Australia, in Sydney

10-Jan-2015•Bishen Jeswant

India's other-end problem

When R Ashwin was actually onto something, however briefly, the other end mattered. If only India can sort out the other end, all the runs that Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane have been scoring might amount to something

09-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga at the SCG

Rogers, Australia's utility man

Though lazily typecast as the dour counterpoint to Warner's pyrotechnics, Rogers has shaped many an innings to fit the prevailing circumstances

09-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig at the SCG

Smith scores most, Umesh concedes most

Stats highlights from the fourth day of the fourth Test between Indian and Australia, in Sydney

09-Jan-2015•Bishen Jeswant

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