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Kohli makes hundred on captaincy debut

Stats highlights from the third day of the first Test between Australia and India at Adelaide

11-Dec-2014•Bishen Jeswant

The terrifying bouncer

When Mitchell Johnson hit Virat Kohli on the helmet with a bouncer, Australian fielders came from everywhere. Mental disintegration had gone, replaced by the cricket unity. Two teams, one family.

11-Dec-2014•Jarrod Kimber at Adelaide Oval

Charitable India wait for another declaration

Australia still had work to do when they began day two, but it all turned too easy for them as Michael Clarke and Steven Smith feasted on a choice selection of dropped catches, long-hops and length balls on the pads

10-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga in Adelaide

Smith prospers through patience

Michael Clarke's hundreds are now rarer, but Steven Smith and David Warner have taken up the slack. In Adelaide they have played sweetly either side of Clarke to underline the gathering depth in Australia's batting.

10-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig at Adelaide Oval

Clarke broken but not beaten

The young Michael Clarke wouldn't recognise this broken old man. But he'd respect him. He'd want to be him, injury and all. Because Michael Clarke is now the hero he has wanted to be since he was born.

10-Dec-2014•Jarrod Kimber at Adelaide Oval

Clarke - 28 hundreds, 27 fifties

Stats highlights from the second day of the first Test between Australia and India at Adelaide

10-Dec-2014•Bishen Jeswant

India's bowling plans go awry

India began with plans that were off, and continued with them for too long. To add to that, their fielding was lethargic in that first hour

09-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga at Adelaide Oval

Warner most successful opener in 2014

Stats highlights from the first day of the first Test between Australia and India at Adelaide

09-Dec-2014•Bishen Jeswant

Warner's blue sky hundred

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

09-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig at Adelaide Oval

The bouncer goes on

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

09-Dec-2014•Jarrod Kimber at Adelaide Oval

Kohli promises agression and spontaneity

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

08-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga in Adelaide

Clarke steels for start of big summer

After a harrowing fortnight, Australia's captain tries to get back to meeting on-field challenges

08-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig

Test cricket enters its toughest week

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

07-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga in Adelaide

India, Australia's most formidable opponent

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

07-Dec-2014•Bishen Jeswant

Why Dhoni's weakness against fuller balls is no longer a problem

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

07-Dec-2014•Aakash Chopra

Mitchell Johnson's moral dilemma

To bounce or not to bounce? Fast bowling has been one of cricket's most high-profile arts but Phillip Hughes' death has shrouded the game in a different light. How will one of today's most menacing bowlers react?

06-Dec-2014•Jarrod Kimber

Australia take first step on the long road back

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

05-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga

A billion Bill Lawrys

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

02-Dec-2014•Rahul Bhattacharya

Macksville prepares for Hughes' final homecoming

The tragic death of its most famous resident has drawn an unfamiliar degree of attention to a 7000-strong town halfway between Sydney and Brisbane

01-Dec-2014•Sidharth Monga

Dhawan's bouncer problem

Why the Indian opener would be well advised to shelve the hook and pull in Australia

25-Nov-2014•Aakash Chopra

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