Dileep Premachandran

South Africa set to unleash pace battery

Mickey Arthur, South Africa's coach, spoke of how his team would attack India with pace, on pitches that would aid a five-man fast-bowling line-up

13-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran at Johannesburg

'Time to forget the one-day series' - Kumble

Anil Kumble has happy memories of the Wanderers, and he urged his team-mates to be positive in the build-up to the first Test which starts on Friday

12-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Johannesburg

Sehwag does the hard yards for net gains

With his big scores too infrequent to camouflage his string of flops, Sehwag's well of goodwill is running dry

12-Dec-2006

'We won't tamper with the openers' - Vengsarkar

Now the chairman of the selection committee, Dilip Vengsarkar said that he would share his inputs with the team management, but insisted that he was not in South Africa on some sort of coercive mission

11-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Johannesburg

Akram to help out Pathan prior to first Test

Despite batting better than most of his illustrious colleagues in the warm-up game at Potchefstroom, Pathan faces an uncertain future

11-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran

More questions than answers

The Indians bowled out a fairly strong Rest of South Africa side for 138 and 224, but the manner in which their own top order capitulated in both innings is cause for tremendous worry heading into the Test series.

10-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

Laxman heaps praise on bowlers

VVS Laxman was delighted with the efforts of his pace bowlers, who set up the 96-run victory over Rest of South Africa

09-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

Zaheer spearheads Indian win

Zaheer Khan once again led the way with the ball as the Indians wrapped up a comprehensive 96-run victory over Rest of South Africa in the tour game at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom

09-Dec-2006•The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

India need top-order answers

On a pitch that rewards accurate and intelligent pace bowling, the Indians should still go on and win this match. But success won't be able to deflect attention from the continued inability of the top-order batsmen to put decent scores on the board

08-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

India edge ahead on bowlers' day

The Indian batsmen suffered another collective meltdown that took the sheen off a superb bowling performance on the second day of the tour game against Rest of South Africa at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom

08-Dec-2006•The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

Harbhajan positive after fightback

On a day when Sourav Ganguly and Irfan Pathan saved Indian blushes, it was Harbhajan Singh - whose cavalier 47 in the final session exasperated the bowlers - that came to address the media

07-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran

Ganguly and Pathan revive India

Sourav Ganguly and Irfan Pathan launched a superb counterattack in the afternoon after the highly-rated Morne Morkel cut a swathe through the Indian top order at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom

07-Dec-2006•The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

Dravid disappointed at missing out

Rahul Dravid speaks to the media ahead of India's warm-up match at Potchefstroom

06-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

India desperate for top order to fire

The Indians now have no option but to play the four-day game against Rest of South Africa with full intensity, in the hope that their misfiring batsmen will finally get some runs on the board ahead of the first Test, which starts in Johannesburg on Decemb

06-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

Laxman confident of turnaround

"We have done well overseas in Test cricket in the last two to three years. If we continue to concentrate on the positives and play to our potential, I believe we can do well here," VVS Laxman told the media after a three-hour-long practice session

05-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

Ganguly joins team in South Africa

As soon as its doors open, the TV crews make a beeline there from their vantage points. Sourav Ganguly gets out quietly, picks up his kitbag from the boot, and wheels in into the practice area

05-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Potchefstroom

Picking through the wreckage

Dileep Premachandran picks through the wreckage of India's 4-0 trouncing by South Africa in the one-day series and finds it very hard to pick out many positives

05-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran

Indian fan taken into custody

An Indian fan was taken into custody in connection with an assault in one of the hospitality boxes adjoining the Indian dressing-room at SuperSport Park in Centurion

03-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Centurion

'Our bowlers were fantastic' - Smith

Graeme Smith and Shaun Pollock spoke to the media after the South African triumph

03-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Centurion

'We haven't come to grips with the conditions' - Chappell

Greg Chappell made no excuses after a shocking display that summed up India's one-day series

03-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Centurion

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