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Indian cricket can only benefit from Kapil Dev's return

There is certainly every indication that Kapil is slowly inching his wayback to cricket after a self-imposed exile

03-Nov-2001•Partab Ramchand

India have reason to hope

Another important decision to be made concerns the bowling combination;in all probability, the attack will comprise two spinners and two mediumpacers

31-Oct-2001•Woorkheri Raman

African Safari: The tour diary

Whenever you bump into an Indian cricketer these days, the talk unfailingly comes around to the subject of the England tour

30-Oct-2001•Ashish Shukla

India tour game in Chatsworth abandoned

India's three-day match against a South African President's XI at the Chatsworth Oval was officially abandoned on Tuesday morning, throwing the tourists' preparations for the first Test against South Africa which starts in Bloemfontein on Saturday

30-Oct-2001•Peter Robinson

Restrain the urges to hurl brickbats

The figure 183 is very famous in Indian cricket; it is a number that makes the eyes of cricket fans sparkle and sends tingles down their spines, more than 18 years after it was notched up to become part and parcel of Indian cricket's greatest

29-Oct-2001•Partab Ramchand

Nail the real culprits

Every time India loses a one-day final, the whole country tears the team to pieces, and theories are floated as to why our cricketers choke at the most important hour

29-Oct-2001•V Ramnarayan

Indian spin in the post-quartet era

It was unfair, but all the same inevitable, that the spinners who followed the peerless quartet would face comparisons with them

29-Oct-2001•Partab Ramchand

The bowling remains a worry

25-Oct-2001•Erapalli Prasanna

The selectors should have considered Sarandeep

Theirs being a thankless job, selectors receive more than a fair share of criticism

25-Oct-2001•Partab Ramchand

It is always nice to be among the runs: Tendulkar

25-Oct-2001•Ashish Shukla

What happens behind closed doors in Indian team selection?

To say that the national selectors of the Indian team are a confused lot would be to pay them a compliment

24-Oct-2001•Anand Vasu

African Safari: The tour diary

Indian cricket needs youngsters who are consistent and have a better success rate than one match per 15 innings

23-Oct-2001•Ashish Shukla

Ganguly has the sheer gall...

Bertie Wooster thought his manservant Jeeves owed his brains to a regular diet of fish

23-Oct-2001•V Ramnarayan

Memories at the end of the Rainbow

The Indian team was the first to tour South Africa for a full-fledged series in 1991-92 after the Proteas came back into international cricket

22-Oct-2001•Woorkheri Raman

The last wall standing

Buffalo Park, in East London, was the venue for the third encounter between India and South Africa before the all-important final, to be played on 26th October in Durban

22-Oct-2001•Santhosh S

Keeping their fans on tenterhooks

Trust the Indian team to take a leaf out of Alfred Hitchcock's book

22-Oct-2001•Partab Ramchand

An upbeat Kenya prepares for Paarl

Behind the elegant facade of a laid-back character lurks the sharp cricketing brain of Sandeep Patil

22-Oct-2001•Ashish Shukla

African Safari: The tour diary

Sunday found the Indian team attending a dinner at High Commissioner Manjit Puri's Cape Town residence

22-Oct-2001•Ashish Shukla

India frittered away a great start

They say seven days is a long time in politics

21-Oct-2001•Krishnamachari Srikkanth

The middle-order has to deliver

I expected a determined effort from the Indians after their debacle at St George's Park in Port Elizabeth

20-Oct-2001•Erapalli Prasanna

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