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(11.5/20 ov, T:129) 129/3

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Sidharth Monga

Senior writer, ESPNcricinfo

Desert rose

Afghanistan have achieved more in 15 years than most teams have in 50. Now, in their first World Cup, they want to be more than just a feel-good story

06-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

'Fast bowlers are not thinking for themselves'

They are fed with plenty of information, say Michael Holding and Wasim Akram, but very few understand their own bowling

06-Jan-2015•Interview by Sidharth Monga

'Sometimes we're too harsh on our bowlers' - Kohli

Virat Kohli began the task of captaining India full time by throwing his weight behind his bowlers, saying the batsmen need to share some of the blame for India's failures

05-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga in Sydney

Kohli, the captain, steps into the spotlight

Assertive and feisty, Virat Kohli, the batsman, has fed off Australia's aggression to make a mark on the tour. Can his leadership now follow suit?

04-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga in Sydney

Raina, Rahul in the frame for Sydney

India's return to the nets under new captain Virat Kohli has come with uncertainty around a few places in the side

04-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga in Sydney

Lambs abroad

A young Test side showed some steel and engineered a famous win but missed several opportunities to establish dominance

03-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

How Johnson rose above all to create magic

When the clock is ticking but the drop-in pitch is refusing to misbehave, when everything is hitting the middle of the bat, you need a man to rise above the conditions, you need some magic. On day five in Melbourne, Mitchell Johnson created magic

02-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

Inscrutable, infuriating and in control

MS Dhoni's tactical moves could make you pull your hair out but off the field, he brought trust to the Indian dressing room. He could let Test matches drift, but his control of his team was absolute

01-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

India pull no punches

Attack has been a good slave for India's batsmen this series, but they shouldn't let it become a bad master

30-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga at the MCG

No sentimental farewell for a practical man

All his cricketing life MS Dhoni has been obsessed with keeping the emotion out of it. He was never going to make leaving an emotional act. No farewell Test, speech or even press conference. Boom. Gone

30-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga at the MCG

India's gangling life support

For long a contributor to India's lack of control with the ball, Ishant Sharma has become far more accurate. The rest of the fast-bowling attack, however, still remains wayward

29-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga at the MCG

No reason to respect Johnson - Kohli

Virat Kohli said he was left with no good reason to respect Mitchell Johnson and some of the other Australia players after verbals flew "throughout the day" at the MCG

28-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga at the MCG

India firm on short-ball plan for Haddin

R Ashwin has said that India will continue to target Brad Haddin with shorter deliveries with the aim of exploiting his weakness

27-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga at the MCG

Rudderless Shami proves too costly

Mohammed Shami bowls a few really good balls, but they are interspersed with far too many loose ones, an inconsistency that is unacceptable in Test cricket

27-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga at the MCG

A day that lived up to Boxing Day expectations

Tests don't come grander than the Boxing Day and the first day's play at the MCG lived up to expectations, with its subplots and slow twists

26-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga at the MCG

The Boxing Day phenomenon

The stands will be teeming with life at the MCG and they will need to be entertained, no matter how much pressure the player might feel out in the middle

25-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga in Melbourne

No Kohli-Dhawan spat - Dhoni

MS Dhoni has sought to rubbish reports that there had been a spat between Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli on the fourth, and last, morning of the Gabba Test

25-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga in Melbourne

Burns to debut, India mull over combination

Australia have confirmed Joe Burns will debut in Melbourne and bat at No. 6, while KL Rahul has been receiving a lot of attention from the coaches at the India nets

25-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga in Melbourne

Grasping the depth of drop-in pitches

In Melbourne, Sidharth Monga tries to understand the science and logistics behind the idea of drop-in pitches, and that they are not as complicated as he expected

24-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga in Melbourne

Stop the abuse, this is not war

That it happened in the past too, that the pressures are higher today, should not be the reason to continue with abuse

24-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga

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