Sidharth Monga

Senior writer, ESPNcricinfo

Kirsten out of his comfort zone

The India coach is in a territory he's often stayed out of since he took charge. He's in the limelight, and his familiarity with South Africa has a lot to do with it

13-Dec-2010•Sidharth Monga in Centurion

Doubts remain over Zaheer Khan's fitness

There was cause for concern for India with Zaheer Khan choosing to go through just fitness drills due to what seems like a hamstring injury

13-Dec-2010•Sidharth Monga in Centurion

New Zealand need to kick the losing habit

India may have already won the series, but New Zealand need to get out of the losing habit, which makes the fourth ODI in Bangalore an important match for them

06-Dec-2010•The Preview by Sidharth Monga

Gambhir ton seals series win against shaky New Zealand

New Zealand's one-day woes continued into a ninth straight game as their batting failed to cope with moist early-morning conditions, before Gautam Gambhir collared them again

04-Dec-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

Gautam Gambhir, bowlers make 2-0

Gautam Gambhir's bowlers responded well to his call of bowling first, restricting New Zealand with smart, accurate bowling, and the captain reciprocated with a fluent 138 off 116 balls to make the chase look easy

01-Dec-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

Kohli and Ashwin set up comfortable win

Virat Kohli's first century batting first, his fourth overall and second in a row, set up an eventually comfortable win for India, who are yet to lose an international in the current home season

28-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

Hosts to play World Cup knockouts at home

The three teams jointly hosting the 2011 World Cup - Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh - will get to play their knockout matches at home venues irrespective of the position they finish at, in their groups

23-Nov-2010•Sidharth Monga

India win series with huge innings victory

With a big lead in the bag, and the pitch offering turn and bounce, the Indian bowlers were all over the New Zealand batsmen

23-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

India bat New Zealand out, then remove one opener

Rahul Dravid's broad defensive bat when New Zealand bowled well, and quicker accumulation when they didn't, crushed the fight the visitors put up in the morning session

22-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

India assume firm control of series decider

Virender Sehwag continued toying with the bowling, Gautam Gambhir continued his return to form, after which Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar took India into a dominant position in the series-decider

21-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

India dominate wounded New Zealand

Once again, India's bowlers put in an important performance just when people had stopped expecting one from them, giving the hosts a big chance of finally putting one across New Zealand

20-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

India look to avert embarrassing stalemate

It will be interesting to see if India will become more aggressive in the third Test, for attacking consistently will go against what has worked for them in recent times

19-Nov-2010•The Preview by Sidharth Monga

Cool like Chittagong

Everything's quick, but everyone's chilled out - what's not to like?

19-Nov-2010•Sidharth Monga

McCullum double-century draws Test

Brendon McCullum reaped rewards for his hard work on day four, milking a tired bowling unit to get to the third-highest score in second innings in Tests in India

16-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

McCullum leads New Zealand's quest for safety

At the end of the fourth day, New Zealand needed to bat out one-and-a-half to two sessions to achieve consecutive draws against India, and they had six wickets in hand

15-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

Harbhajan stuns tenacious New Zealand

New Zealand were tenacious with the ball and spectacular in the field, but had their good work undone by VVS Laxman's Hyderabadi stroke-play in front of his home crowd and Harbhajan Singh's power hitting that overshadowed everything before him

14-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

Bowlers, openers put India ahead

India found a happy medium between defence and attack, threw in some good fortune, and got themselves into a position to take charge

13-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

McIntosh, Guptill lead New Zealand's effort

Tim McIntosh became only the 11th batsman to follow a pair with a century, and Martin Guptill came back to the Test side with an eventually attractive 85 to continue what has been an impressive tour of India so far

12-Nov-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

A team with remarkable belief

India's performances in the second innings of Tests are indicative of how the team has progressed since Sydney 2008

16-Oct-2010•Sidharth Monga

Dhoni praises bowlers for clean sweep

MS Dhoni was full of praise for his bowlers, and the way his side showed character despite injuries to key players, following India's clean sweep of Australia in the two-Test series

13-Oct-2010•Sidharth Monga at the Chinnaswamy Stadium

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