Laxman Sivaramakrishnan was perhaps the classical example of a bowler whose talent was not channelled positively in the right direction

Ladha Amar Singh was one of India's finest new ball bowlers ever and with Mohammed Nissar he formed a formidable opening combination for India in the 1930's

The sparse onlookers at an inter-district women's match in Chennai today were rubbing their eyes in disbelief after watching one of the most improbable occurences on a cricket field - ten batswomen falling for ducks, and the not out bat also failing

The BCCI in its 'vision statement' released almost exactly a year ago claimed that one of its future goals was to prepare a team capable of winning the World Cup in 2002

The passing of Roy Gilchrist in Jamaica on Wednesday was noticed with more than passing interest in India, where he played his last Test match in 1959 and last first class match in 1963

Finally, after much hemming and hawing the BCCI has formally withdrawn from the Super Challenge one-day series in Australia in September

Sourav Ganguly's suggestion for a best-of-three finals in one-day competitions betrays the depths to which his confidence levels have plunged

The selectors sprang a surprise in Mumbai on Monday by announcing that Sachin Tendulkar would skip the better part of this month's triangular series in Sri Lanka

The rotation policy, a distinctly Australian innovation, seems to be spreading its tentacles further afield

Eminent leg break and googly practitioner VV Kumar was unfortunate not to play more than two Tests for India

For long an unqualified supporter of Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar bunged a spanner into the works last week by pronouncing that Steve Waugh was a better batsman than his fellow Mumbaikar

The curtains came down on the South Zone Academy in Chennai after more than 50 days of fun and hard work in equal proportions

The troublesome opening position is once more throwing up a few tantrums on the eve of the second Test at Harare

It was a long time coming but India finally broke a fifteen year old barren sequence outside the subcontinent by sealing a crushing 8 wicket victory against Zimbabwe at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo

Sourav Ganguly says that he enjoys touring more than playing at home

Ramachandra Guha spoke to CricInfo on Tuesday on his most recent preoccupation, 'The Picador Book of Cricket' in which he has anthologised some of the most enduring pieces in cricket writing

The Picador Book of Cricket, edited by Ramachandra Guha and published by Picador

The forthcoming series against Zimbabwe is also India's first engagement in the new ICC Test Championship (ICCTC) which promises to infuse a heightened sense of excitement into the Test playing calendar and impart higher stakes to any bilateral

Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly says he is getting fed up with being repeatedly asked why India does so badly abroad

The National Cricket Academy's second batch commenced training in Bangalore on Tuesday and the twenty probables selected for the enterprise comprise almost exclusively of players aged 19 and less