Pakistan begin their tour game on a `ganja' wicket

Pakistan begin their tour game on a `ganja' wicket

The venue for Pakistan's tour match against an Indian Board President's XI is a nameless wonder

Technology sucks

India's new physiotherapist John Gloster talks to Nagraj Gollapudi about his first impressions of Team India, and about leaving the Bangladesh post

Bruce Elliott, the biomechanics expert from the University of Western Australia, is of the opinion that "it is difficult to bowl the doosra without the extending the arm by more than five degrees"

A good samaritan passed on some advice to Bennett King as he was on his way to take on as the head coach of the West Indies: patience

Gerald de Kock was one peeved communications officer

Michael Clarke has enjoyed a sensational start to his Test career - a hundred on his Test debut in India was followed by another in his first home Test, a double achieved by only five other players

Sourav Ganguly was lost for words in trying to describe the effect such dead wickets have on a team's performance, after the Kanpur Test had petered out into a dull draw

Quotes

Hardships, misery, struggle: Thami Tsolekile has seen all that

The thinking behind three spinners It was not an easy call but Sourav [Ganguly] felt that was best way to get the 20 wickets

Andrew Hall is mostly remembered either for his valiant 99 at Headingley in 2003 or for surviving a shooting from point-blank range

Harbhajan Singh expressed his happiness at Surrey having chosen him as their overseas player for the 2005 season

Aisa koi saga nahin, jisko hamne thaga nahin.' (There is no relative whom we haven't conned); `Badnam kulfi.' (Infamous kulfi)

For both India and South Africa, this is an opportunity to reverse a slump in form

Rahul Dravid and John Wright speak about the pitch at Kanpur ahead of India's first Test against South Africa

Shivkumar Yadav had no aspirations or training to be a curator as he was growing up but now, in his mid-thirties, he finds himself in charge of the Green Park pitch at Kanpur

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