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KL Rahul lets himself breathe

Two single-figure scores on debut, a sitter dropped to start the Sydney Test, a few misfields and everybody feared if we would even get to watch KL Rahul's normal game. But he got through his nerves and secured a maiden Test hundred

08-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga at the SCG

Kohli surpasses Dravid

Stats highlights from the third day of the fourth Test between India and Australia in Sydney

08-Jan-2015•Bishen Jeswant

Australia have beaten India, but not Kohli

Virat Kohli sledges, he celebrates aggressively, he stares, he gets angry - with his team and the opposition - but at the end of it all he's scored a mountain of runs and refuses to be beaten by Australia

08-Jan-2015•Jarrod Kimber at the SCG

Steven Smith's most difficult day

Steven Smith had a tough day as captain in Brisbane too, but there he maintained an outward calm at least; today, as Virat Kohli and KL Rahul gathered their runs, he was harried and did not handle things at optimum levels

08-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig at the SCG

Bhuvneshwar's swing and miss

He was India's best player in England, but how would he cope with Australian conditions when the Kookaburra ball fails to swing? Sydney showed he wasn't able to

07-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga at the SCG

Daylight between Steven Smith and the rest

Australia's top six batsmen scored more than 50 for the first time in Test cricket, but none of the batsmen was anywhere near as masterful as the captain Steven Smith

07-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig at the SCG

Australia's top six make 50 plus

Stats highlights from the second day of the fourth Test between India and Australia in Sydney

07-Jan-2015•Bishen Jeswant

Rogers: 5 fifties, 0 hundreds

Stats highlights from the first day of the fourth Test between India and Australia, in Sydney

06-Jan-2015•Bishen Jeswant

A partnership of three

The pitch, the weather, the bowling, the fielding, it was all made for opening batsmen on day one at the SCG, and David Warner and Chris Rogers made it count while paying rich tribute to another opener: Phillip Hughes

06-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig in Sydney

India lacking in Test skills

The amount of T20 cricket India play has left most of their batsmen unable to compile big Test innings and their bowlers unable to produce multiple spells of accurate bowling away from home

06-Jan-2015•Jarrod Kimber at the SCG

Rahul's six disastrous days of Test cricket

By all accounts it has been a horrendous start to Test cricket for KL Rahul, both with the bat and in the field

06-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga in Sydney

Kohli, the captain, steps into the spotlight

Assertive and feisty, Virat Kohli, the batsman, has fed off Australia's aggression to make a mark on the tour. Can his leadership now follow suit?

04-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga in Sydney

What can India do against Steven Smith?

He has made over 500 runs in the three Tests so far, but he isn't quite invincible

04-Jan-2015•Aakash Chopra

How Johnson rose above all to create magic

When the clock is ticking but the drop-in pitch is refusing to misbehave, when everything is hitting the middle of the bat, you need a man to rise above the conditions, you need some magic. On day five in Melbourne, Mitchell Johnson created magic

02-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

'We were all stumped' - Shastri

Shortly after the Indian squad had finished a tea party with the Australian Prime Minister on New Year's Day, team director Ravi Shastri spoke to Ayaz Memon about MS Dhoni's retirement from Test cricket and the side's future

01-Jan-2015•Ayaz Memon

Inscrutable, infuriating and in control

MS Dhoni's tactical moves could make you pull your hair out but off the field, he brought trust to the Indian dressing room. He could let Test matches drift, but his control of his team was absolute

01-Jan-2015•Sidharth Monga

Second spinner or allrounder?

Australia picked Ashton Agar as a left-arm spinner when they first selected him, but his evolution since then suggests his batting potential might be as much of a factor in his latest selection

01-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

A timeline of MS Dhoni's Test career

31-Dec-2014

Ryan Harris, Australia's MVP

His ageing body might not be the most reliable, but there is no denying that Ryan Harris remains one of the most important cogs in this Australian team

31-Dec-2014•Brydon Coverdale

The secret of Vijay's success

The Indian opener does not play the horizontal-bat shots, but he has a good record in Australia regardless

31-Dec-2014•Aakash Chopra

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