Sharda Ugra

Sportswriter

IPL influence needs careful managing - Hussain

Nasser Hussain has said the IPL, world cricket's richest 'domestic' Twenty20 tournament, will 'entice' and 'exhaust' players in the future if it is not carefully handled by national boards

06-Sep-2011•Sharda Ugra

'As captain you need people to want to play for you'

The former England captain talks about leadership, the captaincy styles of Strauss and Dhoni, and more

06-Sep-2011•Interview by Sharda Ugra

Hussain says series will point way ahead for India

India's one-day series against England is, Nasser Hussain believes, less about a result and, more finding out where their team is headed

04-Sep-2011•Sharda Ugra

England geared for ODI improvement - Hussain

England "need to learn to win in one-day cricket" as they have what it takes to emulate the dominance of West Indies in the 1970-80s and Australia in the 2000s, says Nasser Hussain

03-Sep-2011•Sharda Ugra

Swann backs England to maintain drive

On a sunny Manchester morning, out near Old Trafford, Graeme Swann arrived wearing dark glasses after a celebratory evening on the town

01-Sep-2011•Sharda Ugra in Manchester

Will India's men of tomorrow stand up?

The defeat in England is a sign of the future in Indian Test cricket. What it needs most is men of ability, of a larger appetite, with the greed to succeed

24-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra

Low grades for sloppy India

Sharda Ugra assigns the marks out of 10 for India, after one of their worst series in living memory

24-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra

Dhoni calm as India veer off course

Unlike in his previous four years as India captain, MS Dhoni's now-famous clinical detachment has been unable to produce a turnaround for his team

22-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at The Oval

Swann torments the best players of spin

Given the first set of conditions in this series that suit his gifts, Graeme Swann has tempted the great stroke-makers to hit against his classical brand of offspin with the deception of a cheeky expression

22-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at The Oval

Bell's Oval opera

At a ground where he got a pair in the 2005 Ashes, Bell made his first double-century and set up a potential whitewash of India

20-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at The Oval

Impressive Ishant stuck without support

Ishant Sharma must have felt caught in a sci-fi horror movie: there he was, valiantly defending one side of his spaceship. On the other side, some cowboys were letting all the aliens in

19-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at The Oval

India to use DRS for home internationals

19-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra

England offer India a blueprint for revival

India's opposition has given them all possible indicators as to how turnarounds, while difficult, are neither impossible nor complicated

18-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at The Oval

Wanted, the Sehwag of old

For India to have a chance of leaving England with a Test victory, they need Virender Sehwag to attack, but only after settling in

17-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at The Oval

India's last chance to turn up

Though India lacked the aura of the No. 1 teams of the past, they had the resilience and results. After the first three Tests in England, nothing remains

17-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at The Oval

A terrifying reality check for India

After all the analysis of why India have failed to live up to the No. 1 billing they arrived in England with, all that remains is a big fat exclamation that is the 3-0 series scoreline

13-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at Edgbaston

Cricket, the great leveller

Every cricketer understands, knows and senses this; this game produces strange, twisted events in the careers of men

12-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at Edgbaston

India's rudderless attack exposed

What India's bowlers have lacked is the man to drive them onwards, to give their pack direction

11-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at Edgbaston

Captain Dhoni arrives

India's tour of England is the series where for the first time, MS Dhoni, the Captain Kirk of Indian cricket, has been severely stretched and microscopically scrutinised

10-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at Edgbaston

Cricket tries to bring normality

What not so long ago mattered deeply to insular worlds in both England and India has for a brief while been knocked into perspective

09-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra at Edgbaston

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