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'Love and care energises people'

Ray Jennings, the South African coach, talks to Wisden Cricinfo about the road to recovery and the unique challenges that confront South African cricket

27-Nov-2004•Dileep Premachandran and Nagraj Gollapudi

Ganguly has it all to prove

Sourav Ganguly was relieved to be cleared to play in the Kolkata Test

27-Nov-2004•Chandrahas Choudhury in Kolkata

'No question of an underprepared pitch'

The Indians are under pressure to win at Kolkata after a disappointing result at Kanpur, but the curator at the Eden Gardens has denied that he received any specific instructions to prepare a dustbowl for the second Test, which starts on November 28

26-Nov-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Managing the media

Gerald de Kock was one peeved communications officer

24-Nov-2004•Roving Reporter by Nagraj Gollapudi in Kanpur

India name unchanged squad for Kolkata Test

The Indian selectors have named an unchanged 14-man squad for the second Test against South Africa in Kolkata from November 28

24-Nov-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Ganguly: 'The toss was crucial'

Sourav Ganguly was lost for words in trying to describe the effect such dead wickets have on a team's performance, after the Kanpur Test had petered out into a dull draw

24-Nov-2004•Nagraj Gollapudi in Kanpur

Gunman arrested at Test

A man armed with a revolver was arrested by Kanpur police on the last day of the first Test between India and South Africa at Green Park

24-Nov-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Bowlers enliven a stalemate

As expected, the Kanpur Test petered out to a draw with the South African top order gaining some useful batting practice on the final day

24-Nov-2004•The Bulletin by S Rajesh

Playing on a different pitch

This has been a Test match of two pitches - one for Virender Sehwag, and one for everybody else

23-Nov-2004•Indian View by Dileep Premachandran

Sehwag shines on a sluggish pitch

Virender Sehwag lit up a day of otherwise unattractive cricket as the batsmen struggled on the sluggish pitch, caught between looking out for runs and keeping watch for the ones that stayed low

23-Nov-2004•Bulletin by S Rajesh

No magic solution in sight

A dozen years ago South Africa were a team with few stars, and only one man who knew anything at all about playing Test cricket

23-Nov-2004•Neil Manthorp

Indian Police bust betting ring

Indian police have arrested five bookmakers involved in an illegal betting racket

23-Nov-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

No point blaming the pitch, says Wadekar

Ajit Wadekar, the former Indian captain and coach, feels that too much is being made of the quality of pitches used for Test matches

23-Nov-2004•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Sehwag and Gambhir hit back in style

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir got India off to a great start as they finished the third day on 185 without loss

22-Nov-2004•Bulletin by S Rajesh

Majola: 'Transformation is a long-term process'

South African cricket is going through a period of transition, and Gerald Majola, the chief executive of the United Cricket Board, is at the helm of the transformation process

22-Nov-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

'We are in a good position', says Kumble

Although Anil Kumble picked up six wickets in the first innings, he had to toil hard to pierce South Africa's dogged batting

22-Nov-2004

Hall: 'It makes up for being stranded on 99 not out'

Quotes

21-Nov-2004•Nagraj Gollapudi

Pitches and plodders

As the day wore on, you wondered whether it would have made the slightest bit of difference if right-wing vandals - who desecrated the Wankhede Stadium pitch in 1999 to kill off hopes of an India-Pakistan Test being played there - and their pick-axes

21-Nov-2004•The Wisden Verdict by Dileep Premachandran

From township to Test cricket

Hardships, misery, struggle: Thami Tsolekile has seen all that

21-Nov-2004•Nagraj Gollapudi

Hall century puts South Africa on top

Andrew Hall's maiden Test century - a superb 163 - kept India's bowlers at bay on the second day of the first Test at Kanpur and took South Africa to 459 for 7

21-Nov-2004•The Bulletin by S Rajesh

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