Dileep Premachandran

Why is the ICC suddenly scrutinising the pitches?

Muralitharan has always lived life with a smile, refusing to be cowed by the poisoned darts sent his way

Years from now, if you're an Indian cricket aficionado, they might ask you where you were at 4:45pm on a wintry December evening at the Ferozshah Kotla

To travel around India the past month has been to come face-to-face with considerable angst over India's rotation policy in one-day internationals

The real objects of ire and ridicule should be those who drew up such a mindless itinerary in the first place

Dileep Premachandran watched Sourav Ganguly's return to the ranks as India prepared for the first Test

The time taken to deliberate on the squad to take on Sri Lanka said much about the different pressures at work on the selection committee

Even from 50 yards away, you can't miss the relaxed stance and the glorious flourish with which VVS Laxman leans into an off-drive

A few more innings like this, added to an extra pinch of consistency, and India may once again whole-heartedly embrace a player who has only flirted casually with greatness since that most eye-catching calling card in East Africa

Dileep Premachandran cites a few glaring selection blunders as reasons for the World XI surrendering so meekly

The strength of character that India showed in Australia, and then again in Pakistan, proved to be as fleeting as winter sunshine