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Jadeja no longer playing second fiddle

The allrounder's return of 5 for 124 on a placid Ranchi pitch meant he went past R Ashwin's tally of first-innings wicket this season

17-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Ranchi

'A quality leave outside off stump is sexier with a big bat'

Bat sizes, eating at the movies, and constructing a shed: let it never be said that our Twitter round-up was shy of tackling the big topics

17-Mar-2017•Alex Bowden

Captain Smith racks up the numbers in India

Stats highlights from Australia's first innings of the Ranchi Test

17-Mar-2017•Bharath Seervi

India bowlers take assistance from air

Once set, Smith and Maxwell became surer with their footwork, and there was little India's spinners could do but plug away and hope for an error. With a little help from the air above the pitch, the bowlers ensured the game hadn't slipped entirely out of

16-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Ranchi

The weirdness of Maxwell's proper Test innings

On a pitch most suited for him on this tour, David Warner, the T20-specialist-turned-Test star, got his eye in and then played a wasteful shot. The grown-up knock came from another T20 specialist, instead: Glenn Maxwell

16-Mar-2017•Jarrod Kimber in Ranchi

Plot watch - Ranchi pitch belies expectations

A daily report on the three biggest talking points of the series: the pitches, the on-field aggression and the reviews

16-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

Smith's runs trump aesthetics

Steven Smith is a classic example of the essentials of batting at the crease and the fact that some may find his game seemingly unaesthetic takes nothing away from its effectiveness

16-Mar-2017•Aakash Chopra

Paint my love

Sudhir Gautam, uber Tendulkar fan, is now rooting for a new sport

16-Mar-2017•Susan Ninan

How Pujara and Rahane repelled Lyon

Both batsmen fell cheaply in the first innings in Bengaluru but after some minor technical adjustments they put on the only wicketless session of the series so far and helped India draw level in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy

15-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Ranchi

The long break and the premiership quarter

Australia's tour of India has been a bit like an AFL game and they go into the third Test knowing a victory could help them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy

15-Mar-2017•Melinda Farrell in Ranchi

No point worrying about things out of your control - Ojha

A trimmer, fitter Pragyan Ojha talks about the hurt of being left out and the "one chance" that could turn things around

15-Mar-2017•Arun Venugopal

Kohli the Indian Ricky Ponting?

The Australian team learnt its cricket watching an angry, winning Ricky Ponting lead the side. So did Virat Kohli. There isn't all that great a difference between them

14-Mar-2017•Jarrod Kimber in Ranchi

Four six-fors in a Test, and the highest last-wicket stand in ODIs

Also: who missed the largest number of Tests over the course of a career?

14-Mar-2017•Steven Lynch

The fascinating and frustrating Vijay experience

M Vijay approaches his 50th Test having played important innings for the side all over the world, yet he has not quite dominated a series like his peers in the India team

13-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Ranchi

A Gandhi at No. 3

After five seasons of limited opportunity, Kaushik Gandhi has finally established himself in Tamil Nadu's batting line-up, playing a role befiting his surname

12-Mar-2017•Arun Venugopal

It takes a rare cricketer to reach a century, not just make one

The birthdays of Tom Pritchard and Jack Laver this week draw notice to an exclusive band of cricketers who have lived 100 years and more

10-Mar-2017•Brydon Coverdale

The over 40s... and almost

Today's countdown features players who showed an old voice of wisdom still has value even when music erupts from loudspeakers at the end of each over

10-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

The impact of Jadeja 2.0

From a left-arm metronome to a spinner who varies his style as per the situation, the changes that Ravindra Jadeja has brought to his bowling have been subtle but very effective

10-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy

BCCI awards - a joyful confluence of talent

Despite a boycott by the state associations, and other controversies, the star-studded function went off without a hitch

09-Mar-2017•Arun Venugopal

Opinions on Steven Smith's DRS 'brain fade'

While Virat Kohli suggested the Australians deliberately used dressing room help for DRS, the visitors had other things to say

09-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

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