Ian Chappell is an expert commentator for Channel Nine covering the Test series between India and Australia

The first day of the second Test between Australia and India was a showcase of the kind of cricket worth traveling far to witness

Hemang Badani was the last man to leave the Indian nets

Michael Slater breathed easy after match referee Cammie Smith let him off with a simple warning after the heated incident between Slater, Rahul Dravid and umpire S Venkataraghavan in the first Test at Mumbai

The game of cricket is the challenge between bat and ball

After making a mammoth 451 in their first innings, Australia managed to skittle out Board President's XI for a mere 221 runs on the second day of their three day game at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground on Wednesday

Steve Waugh has been lucky with the toss on this tour of India

Narendra Deepchand Hirwani is a character wronged more than once

Sourav Ganguly is in for a rather unusual and stern test

When Javagal Srinath, nursing an injury to his right index finger, came out to bat one handed in the second innings of the first Test against Australia at the Wankhede Stadium, pundits scratched their heads in bewilderment

It was a day Sourav Ganguly would love to forget and Steve Waugh would remember for a long time to come

The second day of the first Test between India and Australia began in a rush of glory for India's spinners

When Steve Waugh won the toss and told Sourav Ganguly that the visitors would like to take the field, it was a win-win situation

"When someone like Sir Don speaks about batting, you listen very carefully

Every time the Australians come to India there is one overlying fear

Hemang Badani is not like any other youngster who has made it big in Indian cricket in the recent past

There are few Indian cricketers more polite and well natured than Madhya Pradesh legspinner Narendra Hirwani

In every war movie, book or mythological story the first thing rulers are rumoured to do, is get on the highest balcony, address a gathering of teeming masses and cry out "People unite!" War or not, that is the approximate slogan doing the rounds

There were strong murmurs around the IIT-Chemplast ground at Chennai

The setting for a most memorable encounter was the verdant Press Club premises at Bangalore