Sharda Ugra

Sportswriter

Knockout-round tickets up for grabs

Tickets for the semi-finals and the final of the World Cup are going to go online for sale on Monday, 1pm IST (0730 GMT) on the tournament's official ticketing website www.kyazoonga.com

25-Feb-2013•Sharda Ugra

Be flexible in Tests

Earlier posts: intro , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 4.5 , 5

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

India's spinners thrive on spiteful pitch

Harbhajan Singh and Ravindra Jadeja's improved showing in the second innings was a result of better application, aided by a dirt-lane of a pitch which the Australians found hard to read

25-Feb-2013•Sharda Ugra

Dhoni plays his defining innings

MS Dhoni played his best Test innings - his maiden double-century - to give India a significant advantage against Australia

24-Feb-2013•Sharda Ugra

Large-hearted, red-blooded, Caribbean

A capacious anthology that straddles genres and themes and contains a multitude of voices in an attempt to capture West Indian cricket

24-Feb-2013•Sharda Ugra

Tendulkar to the rescue, again

The Tendulkar on view today was neither the mad attacker of the 1990s nor the accumulator of the early 2000s, but someone in between

23-Feb-2013•Sharda Ugra

Ashwin finds his groove

While the rest of the bowlers struggled to find a consistent line of attack, Ashwin's radar today was state-of-the-art

22-Feb-2013•Sharda Ugra

A modern rivalry looks to new heroes

Both teams are in transition, but while Australia have a solid recent record, India need a series win to confirm they can compete against top sides

21-Feb-2013•Sharda Ugra

A horses-for-courses squad

India's selectors didn't have too many riches to pick from, and given the limitations, have chosen a fairly balanced squad

10-Feb-2013•Sharda Ugra and Amol Karhadkar

Mumbai demolish Services to enter 44th Ranji final

Mumbai entered their 44th Ranji Trophy final on the basis of the first-innings lead after dismissing Services for 240

21-Jan-2013•The Report by Sharda Ugra in Delhi

Services face daunting task on sixth day

The rain-interrupted semi-final between Services and Mumbai will go into its sixth day on Monday. Services trail Mumbai by 291 runs with seven wickets in hand

20-Jan-2013•The Report by Sharda Ugra in Delhi

Wet conditions allow no play on fourth day

Under bright sunshine the Palam Air Force ground had no play for the first two sessions on day four of the Ranji Trophy semi-final with much doubt and deliberation whether play could begin at all on Saturday

19-Jan-2013•The Report by Sharda Ugra in Delhi

Agarkar, Tare swing match Mumbai's way

Centuries from Aditya Tare and Ajit Agarkar helped Mumbai take a large, confident step towards a sizeable first-innings total in their Ranji Trophy semi-final against Services.

17-Jan-2013•Sharda Ugra in Delhi

Can India afford a captain who isn't committed to Test cricket?

Dhoni's leadership in the format has been overly defensive, and he hasn't shown he particularly cares much about the five-day game either

17-Jan-2013•Sharda Ugra

Services' day despite Tendulkar, Nayar fifties

At the end of the first day of their first Ranji semi-final in 44 years, Services proved they were not daunted by Mumbai's trophy-laden Ranji record, their star players or their reputation as the domestic tough guys

16-Jan-2013•Sharda Ugra in Delhi

Tough Services not daunted by Mumbai

Although Mumbai are the more accomplished side on paper, they would do better than underestimate a tough Services

15-Jan-2013•Sharda Ugra in Delhi

Of Tendulkar among other things

A genre-defying new book brings together sport, philosophy and fiction

06-Jan-2013•Sharda Ugra

All tunnel, no light

In 2012, India sank to nadirs long unvisited, and the future doesn't look much better than bleak either

01-Jan-2013•Sharda Ugra

A career built on reinvention

In limited-overs cricket Tendulkar represents reinvention - of form, of technique, of order, to some extent of the passage of time

23-Dec-2012•Sharda Ugra

Manhas, Dhawan power Delhi to win

Dhawan and Manhas, current and former captain, switched batting personalities on Tuesday and delivered for Delhi a seven-wicket victory over Maharashtra

18-Dec-2012•Sharda Ugra in Delhi

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