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Head to head

There will be interesting individual battles within the main battle as both India and Sri Lanka do their homework and try to home in on perceived weaknesses.

07-Feb-2007•Anand Vasu in Kolkata

Sehwag and Munaf back for SL series

Virender Sehwag and Munaf Patel were reinducted into the 15-man squad for the series against Sri Lanka while Suresh Raina, Ramesh Powar and Gautam Gambhir found themselves excluded

03-Feb-2007•Anand Vasu in Mumbai

No need for two 'keepers - Wadekar

Brushing aside suggestions of including a second wicketkeeper in the 15-member World Cup squad, Ajit Wadekar said the team cannot afford to have two stumpers for the mega event

03-Feb-2007•PTI

Dravid shows no sign of crisis

First Rahul Dravid announced the 12; next he revealed the openers, something he's rarely disclosed in the past; then he explained why; later he candidly argued Virender Sehwag's exclusion, stating that being out of the side can have its benefits

20-Jan-2007•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Chappell likely to stay on as India's coach

Greg Chappell is likely to stay on as India's coach irrespective of the team's performance in the World Cup

12-Jan-2007•Exclusive by Anand Vasu in Rajkot

Batting failures left India stranded

The batting was the reason India finished on the runner-up's podium. They asked all the right questions with the ball but the batting never really came together as a unit, writes Allan Donald

08-Jan-2007•Allan Donald

Sehwag has to be benched

Nobody knows it better than the top five Indian batsmen that they have let down their side badly. The management would surely show more guts in putting Sehwag on the bench for Cape Town

01-Jan-2007•Allan Donald

Sehwag unlikely for series decider

South Africa's greater desperation prevailed on a tense weather-interrupted final day, leaving the series beautifully poised going into the final Test at Cape Town

31-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Cape Town

Vengsarkar worried about openers' form

Disappointed with the collapse of the Indian top order on the fifth day of the Durban Test, Dilip Vengsarkar, the chairman of selectors, has expressed concern over the form of India's openers - Virender Sehwag and Wasim Jaffer

31-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

'We've got confidence in our opening pair' - Dravid

Having announced the 12 for the game, Rahul Dravid spoke at length on keeping faith in the opening combination and the decision to send Irfan Pathan back home

25-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Durban

Munaf's chance to stake a claim

After rains over the past few days, a few wet patches on the outfield delayed the start, which was moved back to 11am

22-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Durban

Munaf's chance to stake a claim

The Indians will head to the Crusaders Ground in Durban on Friday for a two-day warm-up that was primarily engineered to take a look at Munaf Patel's fitness

21-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Durban

India face a test of character

Boosted by their victory in the Pro20 game on Friday night, India's cricketers head to Centurion on Sunday seeking to avoid a 4-0 drubbing in the one-day series

02-Dec-2006•The Preview by Dileep Premachandran at Centurion

'I had it all worked out in my mind' - Karthik

Virender Sehwag and Dinesh Karthik spoke to the media after India's convincing win in their inaugural Twenty20 match at the Wanderers

01-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran at Johannesburg

India clinch a consolation win

A superb unbeaten 31 from Dinesh Karthik led India to a thrilling penultimate-ball victory in their first-ever Pro20 outing at the Wanderers.

01-Dec-2006•The Bulletin by Dileep Premachandran at Johannesburg

Overcast skies threaten match

The weather, which ruined the opening one-day match of the series on November 19, is threatening to derail India's first-ever Pro20 game on Friday evening

01-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran at Johannesburg

'The batting let us down' - Sehwag

Virender Sehwag, Shaun Pollock and Herschelle Gibbs spoke to the media at the end of yet another one-sided game

29-Nov-2006•Dileep Premachandran at Port Elizabeth

Ganguly in line for recall

With India stuttering from one poor performance to the other in the one-day arena, Sourav Ganguly is in line for a recall to the Test side

28-Nov-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Port Elizabeth

Sehwag promises Indian fightback

Virender Sehwag, India's stand-in-captain for the rest of India's ODI series against South Africa, has appealed to fans to maintain their faith and that India would come back in the best-of-four contest

28-Nov-2006•Cricinfo staff

It's a matter of the mind now

More than anyone else Chappell believes cricket, batting to be a game of the mind. If the Indian batsmen begin to believe they can't, the battle would be hopelessly lost before the game at Cape Town

23-Nov-2006•Dileep Premachandran

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