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No cricketer was closer to Phillip Hughes in the horrible hour between his collapse and conveyance to hospital than David Warner. The emotion of Warner's hundred in Adelaide was apparent all the way through

This Test couldn't really start until a bowler hit the middle of the pitch, until that first bouncer was bowled aggressively and handled safely. Because the bouncer belongs to cricket

The plainspeaking Indian batsman is focusing on life beyond cricket, having set up an educational institution with world-class facilities for academics and sports

In Adelaide, Virat Kohli will lead India for the first time in Tests, with the added pressure of a sensitive setting and the team's full-time captain at hand, but he is not shying away from any scrutiny

The first Test will be hard to play, but it must be played. It will be difficult to watch, but it must be watched. The first ball can't be bowled soon enough, though nobody can be quite prepared for it

On a reasonably good pitch against an average bowling attack, Gautam Gambhir scrapped his way to an unbeaten century on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy, indicating he was not going to give up yet

A stats analysis of India's recent record in and against Australia, and their chances going into the first Test in Adelaide

If he shows the discipline he did in England, resisting the temptation to drive full deliveries outside off, he could get a maiden Test hundred in Australia

Delayed scheduling and the absence of some veterans make this Ranji Trophy season different. It is also likely to have little bearing on the selection of the India side for the World Cup

A preview of the prospects of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu ahead of the 2014-15 Ranji season

A preview of the prospects of Maharashtra, Saurashtra and Railways ahead of the 2014-15 Ranji season

A preview of the prospects of Jammu & Kashmir, Baroda and Gujarat ahead of the 2014-15 Ranji Trophy

Back in training for the first time since the death of Phillip Hughes, Australia's players and staff made conscious attempts at fun and games, at bonding, at being there for each other

A preview of the prospects of Mumbai, Odisha and Bengal ahead of the 2014-15 Ranji season

India at the 2015 World Cup will be minus the solid core of players that carried them through the years between World Cups 2003 and 2011 - those players, it is now confirmed, had run their course by end of the victorious 2011 campaign

Mehrab Hossain, who played the pull shot that ended Raman Lamba's life 16 years ago, has a message of support for Sean Abbott

Down the years, Australia was the cricket country Indians wanted theirs to aspire to be

The batsman needs to make a minor adjustment in getting his upper body to move in the direction of the ball, especially if it swings away

First-class batsman Yere Goud caught a 13-year-old's attention with his unusual name and news-making runs