Dileep Premachandran

Cut down in full flight

Until Steve Bucknor, who has gradually assumed the role of a Prince of Darkness in the Sachin Tendulkar story, extinguished the lights, the master was proceeding resolutely towards what might have been a career-defining innings

18-Mar-2005•The Wisden Verdict by Dileep Premachandran in Kolkata

Never another like Sachin

For many Indians, he remains the cherub-faced boy who refused to be bullied by the fearsome pace of Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram, and the guileful menace of Imran Khan

16-Mar-2005•Dileep Premachandran

Never another like Sachin

For many Indians, he remains the cherub-faced boy who refused to be bullied by the fearsome pace of Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram, and the guileful menace of Imran Khan

16-Mar-2005•Dileep Premachandran in Kolkata

Akmal and Razzaq save the Test

An outstanding 109 from Kamran Akmal and a dogged 71 from Abdul Razzaq ensured that Pakistan saved the first Test at Mohali

12-Mar-2005•The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran

Pakistan face defeat despite Inzamam's valiant knock

Inzamam-ul-Haq and Yousuf Youhana produced defiant and beautiful innings, while Asim Kamal reprised his first-innings heroics with an assured 48, but by the end of the fourth day, Pakistan were still staring at an ignominious defeat, 53 runs ahead

11-Mar-2005•The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran

India grind out a healthy lead

Virender Sehwag's thrilling 173 gave India the ideal platform to bat Pakistan out of this Test match, but those that followed him showed a strange reluctance to put the boot in, as Pakistan's bowlers - led most admirably by the tireless Danish

10-Mar-2005•The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran

Sehwag and Gambhir sizzle at Mohali

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir lit up a grey Mohali afternoon with some iridescent strokeplay as India made a mockery of conditions that appeared to be tailormade for swing bowling

09-Mar-2005•Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran

Honours even on absorbing day

Asim Kamal's gutsy knock of 91, after India's mediumpace bowlers had accounted for the top order, helped Pakistan to 312 before they were knocked over by India

08-Mar-2005•Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran

Mohali beckons as the rivalry is renewed

A year on from an epochal Test series across the border, India and Pakistan will commence the latest episode of the most storied rivalry in all of sport

07-Mar-2005•Preview by Dileep Premachandran in Mohali

An epochal moment

A dour series characterised by safety-first tactics and lack of initiative exploded into life on a Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch that might have been prepared by Pol Pot's henchmen rather than a curator

01-Mar-2005•Dileep Premachandran

A fairy-tale match

One of the most abused clichés in sport is the one about the game, ratherthan a team or individual, being the winner

01-Mar-2005•Dileep Premachandran

One resounding stroke

Almost two decades later, Javed Miandad, the scrapper who knew not how to throw in the towel, would confess to having almost done just that

25-Feb-2005•Dileep Premachandran

One resounding stroke

Almost two decades later, Javed Miandad, the scrapper who knew not how to throw in the towel, would confess to having almost done just that

25-Feb-2005•Dileep Premachandran

'Nothing scares me'

But for the Apartheid-era isolation, Ray Jennings would probably be remembered as one of the world's great wicketkeepers

29-Dec-2004•Dileep Premachandran

So near, yet so far

Indian cricket took in more peaks and troughs than the average submersible on the sea-bed in 2004

28-Dec-2004•Dileep Premachandran

One of India's great might-have-beens

Nayan Mongia, the former Indian Test wicketkeeper, has announced his retirement after being dropped by Baroda

22-Dec-2004•Commentary by Dileep Premachandran

Toddler's candy and the Ugly Sister

To say that taking runs off Bangladesh is as facile as misappropriating a toddler's candy is to seriously underestimate a little one's resolve

17-Dec-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Dileep Premachandran

Learning disability

There's a macabre inevitability to the Bangladeshi batting that reminds you of the trashy tomato-ketchup-and-spray-paint Friday the 13th movies

12-Dec-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Dileep Premachandran

Keeper of the flame

Like Sunil Gavaskar, his predecessor as the holder of India's batting flame, it took Sachin Tendulkar just 119 Test matches to notch up his 34th Test century

11-Dec-2004•Dileep Premachandran

A much-needed boost for India

The mixed bag of results this home season could prove to be a spur in the long run, a gentle reminder to the team that though much distance has been traversed, there are many more miles to go

03-Dec-2004•Dileep Premachandran

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