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David Gower feels Yuvraj Singh is actually batting better than Lara at the moment.
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
David Gower feels Yuvraj Singh is actually batting better than Lara at the moment.
That Rahul Dravid is doing well as a batsman after becoming the captain is no surprise. But Rajneesh Gupta reveals that "Dravid’s average of 45.59 is now the highest for any player, who has captained his country in 10 matches or more".
Hard decisions must be taken. Sometimes good men must be omitted, writes Peter Roebuck in the Hindu while Rajan Bala, in the Deccan Chronicle, sympathises with Andrew Flintoff.
England leave backwaters but still face a swamping, writes Lawrence Booth in the Guardian. 'England's limited-over side may have been shot down in flames, but they know all that counts is the Ashes', feels Angus Fraser.
Full postOrdinary yet extraordinary
It’s not just in the sporting arena where great acts take place, finds Peter Roebuck, as he meets some ordinary people performing extraordinary deeds around Johannesburg during his time there for the Wanderers Test.
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
It’s not just in the sporting arena where great acts take place, finds Peter Roebuck, as he meets some ordinary people performing extraordinary deeds around Johannesburg during his time there for the Wanderers Test.
Full postHarold Pinter's tribute to Arthur Wellard
This day, 104 years ago, a six-hitter is born
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
This day, 104 years ago, a six-hitter is born. Cricinfo's All Todays Yesterday informs that Arthur Wellard had a first-class average of only 19, but he cleared the boundary over 500 times during his career. He spent his final playing years playing for Gaieties CC, a club founded in 1937.
Click here to read a tribute to Wellard, penned by the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.
Full postDizzy returns
The prospect of reuniting Australia's most successful pace combination does, at first, sound like cause for a pre-emptive tickertape parade before the Ashes, writes Alex Brown .
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
The prospect of reuniting Australia's most successful pace combination does, at first, sound like cause for a pre-emptive tickertape parade before the Ashes, writes Alex Brown.
Any thoughts of McGrath and Gillespie returning to lead the attack in a throwback to a golden period of Australian cricket would seem unrealistic, however nice an image it may be for the romantics.
Chloe Saltau, of the The Age, finds out that "Dizzy" didn't expect the call up and was "getting ready to play for the Yorky boys".
Full postPowar and glory of old offspin
Mike Selvey watches Ramesh Powar and is transported back to a bygone age:
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Mike Selvey watches Ramesh Powar and is transported back to a bygone age:
His stock in trade is old-fashioned well-spun, nicely flighted off-breaks - with not a doosra in sight - all of which is rather comforting in a nostalgic sort of way, like the Sunday smell of Bisto or reruns of the Good Life.
Dravid inspirational, England roasted
"Rahul Dravid, in his tactical nous, is not always brilliantly inventive but what made him outstanding in Kochi was that he played his hunches ," writes R Mohan in the Deccan Chronicle .
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
"Rahul Dravid, in his tactical nous, is not always brilliantly inventive but what made him outstanding in Kochi was that he played his hunches," writes R Mohan in the Deccan Chronicle.
England have had some pretty miserable one-day tours in their time, but this Indian misadventure is shaping up as the worst yet, feels Simon Briggs.
'Hot stuffed' screamed the Sun while Daily Mirror lashed out against the side, claiming England threw in the towel.
England may have only reluctantly agreed to this ODI schedule, but what they cannot deny is that the ground covered during the series shows just to what extent cricket has become a pan-India phenomenon, writes Jonathan Dyson in the Mid-Day.
Full postICC’s elite umpiring panel not reliable any more
The ICC will insist its technical assessment is right to a ‘T’
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
The ICC will insist its technical assessment is right to a ‘T’. The umpires panel officers will spew statistics about how their panelists are 95 per cent right. What they may not record is the number of goofups of their favourites. Nor will they see the pattern that appears to suggest something else, writes R.Mohan in The Deccan Chronicle
Full postA selection based on potential
It’s a selection based on the premise of immense , if as yet unrealised, potential and the promise he carries with him
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
It’s a selection based on the premise of immense, if as yet unrealised, potential and the promise he carries with him. Whether Uthappa understands it or not, a singular honour has been bestowed upon him as he comes into the squad at a time when Ganguly and Laxman continue to be overlooked, writes R Kaushik in the Deccan Herald.
Six years ago, cricket fans in the north thought Yuvraj Singh had an attitude problem. He was known to cast his wicket away to innocuous bowlers and not pay attention on improving upon his technique and temperament. But the left-hander from Chandigarh has come a long way since then, feels Vijay Lokapally in the Hindu.
The residents of Kailash Nagar in Kochi’s Thamanam area, where Sreesanth lives have decided to rename the place as Sreesanth Nagar. Read on at the Mid Day.
Sreesanth becomes Kerala’s first player to play for India in Kerala and it's a dream come true for him.
Full postThis is the moment, I’ve always wanted to experience — to step out off a flight onto my own city as an India cricketer.
Yuvraj speak
Yuvraj Singh tells Lokendra Pratap Sahi that his improvement has everything to do with change in thought process
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Yuvraj Singh tells Lokendra Pratap Sahi that his improvement has everything to do with change in thought process. Read the wide-ranging interview in The Telegraph for more.
Full postWI waiting for next Richards: Lara
Brian Lara talks about his form, and about various issues plaguing West Indies cricket in an interview with the news channel CNN-IBN .
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
Brian Lara talks about his form, and about various issues plaguing West Indies cricket in an interview with the news channel CNN-IBN.
I think in the West Indies, we just sit back on our rocking chairs and think that we are going to churn out the next Vivian Richards or Gary Sobers. But we do not have to do anything. That is not the case anymore. We are a lot more disciplined, there is a lot more technology in sport and a natural talented player is now coming back to the field. This is the area I think that we'll have to look at.