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Sehwag: 'They had a negative approach'

Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Boeta Dippenaar spoke to the media on a variety of issues after the fourth day's play at Kanpur

22-Jul-2009•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Hall's innings supports Jennings's creed

The corner-turning moment of the match so far came before the vehicle had even left the garage, let alone made its way to the starting line: on Thursday, Smith had approved Andrew Hall as his opening partner

13-Sep-2005•Neil Manthorp

Managing the media

Gerald de Kock was one peeved communications officer

24-Nov-2004•Roving Reporter by Nagraj Gollapudi in Kanpur

Gunman arrested at Test

A man armed with a revolver was arrested by Kanpur police on the last day of the first Test between India and South Africa at Green Park

24-Nov-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Bowlers enliven a stalemate

As expected, the Kanpur Test petered out to a draw with the South African top order gaining some useful batting practice on the final day

24-Nov-2004•The Bulletin by S Rajesh

Playing on a different pitch

This has been a Test match of two pitches - one for Virender Sehwag, and one for everybody else

23-Nov-2004•Indian View by Dileep Premachandran

Sehwag shines on a sluggish pitch

Virender Sehwag lit up a day of otherwise unattractive cricket as the batsmen struggled on the sluggish pitch, caught between looking out for runs and keeping watch for the ones that stayed low

23-Nov-2004•Bulletin by S Rajesh

No magic solution in sight

A dozen years ago South Africa were a team with few stars, and only one man who knew anything at all about playing Test cricket

23-Nov-2004•Neil Manthorp

No point blaming the pitch, says Wadekar

Ajit Wadekar, the former Indian captain and coach, feels that too much is being made of the quality of pitches used for Test matches

23-Nov-2004•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Sehwag and Gambhir hit back in style

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir got India off to a great start as they finished the third day on 185 without loss

22-Nov-2004•Bulletin by S Rajesh

'We are in a good position', says Kumble

Although Anil Kumble picked up six wickets in the first innings, he had to toil hard to pierce South Africa's dogged batting

22-Nov-2004

Hall: 'It makes up for being stranded on 99 not out'

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21-Nov-2004•Nagraj Gollapudi

Pitches and plodders

As the day wore on, you wondered whether it would have made the slightest bit of difference if right-wing vandals - who desecrated the Wankhede Stadium pitch in 1999 to kill off hopes of an India-Pakistan Test being played there - and their pick-axes

21-Nov-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Dileep Premachandran

From township to Test cricket

Hardships, misery, struggle: Thami Tsolekile has seen all that

21-Nov-2004•Nagraj Gollapudi

Hall century puts South Africa on top

Andrew Hall's maiden Test century - a superb 163 - kept India's bowlers at bay on the second day of the first Test at Kanpur and took South Africa to 459 for 7

21-Nov-2004•The Bulletin by S Rajesh

Hall makes his mark

India took on South Africa in the first game of their two-Test series at Kanpur

20-Nov-2004•The Bulletin by S Rajesh

Short-sighted tradition

Guileful slow bowling and attractive shotmaking have been the leitmotifs of Indian cricket since the halcyon days of Palwankar Baloo and CK Nayudu, but there have been times when the adherence to tradition has prevented the national side from

20-Nov-2004•Analysis by Dileep Premachandran

'We have to be patient' - Wright

The thinking behind three spinners It was not an easy call but Sourav [Ganguly] felt that was best way to get the 20 wickets

20-Nov-2004•Nagraj Gollapudi

'Forget the run-rate' - Smith

Andrew Hall is mostly remembered either for his valiant 99 at Headingley in 2003 or for surviving a shooting from point-blank range

20-Nov-2004•Nagraj Gollapudi

Infamous kulfis and babysitting umpires

Aisa koi saga nahin, jisko hamne thaga nahin.' (There is no relative whom we haven't conned); `Badnam kulfi.' (Infamous kulfi)

20-Nov-2004•Roving Reporter by Nagraj Gollapudi in Kanpur

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