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Private tours play a laudable role in a cricketer's education

Former England Test cricketer Basil D'Oliveira first showed signs of his class on a tour of the West Indies with Derek Robins' team

21-Jul-2001•V Ramnarayan

Curbing players' misbehaviour: ICC chief's commendable move

As one who has always held strong views on the subject of growingmisbehaviour of players on the field, I must commend the stand takenby the new Chief Executive Officer of the ICC Malcolm Speed in givingtop priority to dealing with this `cancer' that

19-Jul-2001•Partab Ramchand

Will the law of averages settle in India's favour?

Indian off-spin great Erapalli Prasanna previews the Coca-Cola Cup in his column for CricInfo.Followers of the game are asking the intriguing question whether itwill be another story of so near, yet so far for the Indian team inSri Lanka

19-Jul-2001•Erapalli Prasanna

The common man believes matchfixing still takes place

Disgraced former South Africa captain Hansie Cronje is trying to make a comeback, according to media reports

18-Jul-2001•V Ramnarayan

Chasm separating spinners of yesteryear and today is widening

Where have the spinners gone

14-Jul-2001•V Ramnarayan

The devaluation of the Duleep Trophy is complete

Forty years after it was introduced amidst expectations that it would give the domestic game a much needed fillip, the Duleep Trophy has met with the ultimate humiliation

11-Jul-2001•Partab Ramchand

Indians were guilty of complacency

I was totally convinced that India would fire in the One Day Internationals in Zimbabwe after the Test disappointment

10-Jul-2001•Erapalli Prasanna

Selectors should be accountable to their own consciences, not regional bosses

You must be joking, Mr Borde

10-Jul-2001•V Ramnarayan

Can the Indians make the best of Tendulkar's absence?

The selectors sprang a surprise in Mumbai on Monday by announcing that Sachin Tendulkar would skip the better part of this month's triangular series in Sri Lanka

10-Jul-2001•Sankhya Krishnan

One-day cricket has taken level of fielding to a different plane

Geoff Boycott, the former England opener maintained that fielding is one area where anyone can improve at any point in one's career

09-Jul-2001•Woorkheri Raman

India without Tendulkar for first part of Sri Lanka tour

Man of the series in the recently concluded Coca-Cola Cup in Zimbabwe Sachin Tendulkar has been ruled out for the forthcoming tri-series with a similar name in Sri Lanka

09-Jul-2001•Anand Vasu

Lack of attention to detail cause for India's loss to West Indies

Four comfortable wins in four matches

08-Jul-2001•Anand Vasu

Rotation not the way to go for India

The rotation policy, a distinctly Australian innovation, seems to be spreading its tentacles further afield

08-Jul-2001•Sankhya Krishnan

He was the Nawab of Hyderabad cricket...

"Do you remember that evening in Bangkok in January 1978 when we had some 12 bahts between us and needed to buy a bottle of soda?" my old captain would ask, recalling the ridiculous experience of circumstantial poverty that had had a couple

07-Jul-2001•V Ramnarayan

Is it a new dawn for quick bowling in India?

Ever since the quartet of spinners disappeared from the scene, Indian cricket has never enjoyed the reputation of a strong side

06-Jul-2001•Erapalli Prasanna

After match fixing, a drugs scandal now hits Indian cricket

It was just the other day that AC Muthiah was speaking about the good work done in India to combat the match fixing menace

05-Jul-2001•Partab Ramchand

Rotation policy augurs well for team reserves

At the start of the Indian cricket team's tour of Zimbabwe, I predicted that Debasish Mohanty would return to India without playing a single Test or one-day international

04-Jul-2001•V Ramnarayan

Robin Singh still good enough to play for the country

The Coca-Cola Champions Trophy in Sharjah in 2000-01 was the last time Rabindra Ramnarayan Singh played a full series for India

03-Jul-2001•Anand Vasu

Is SS Das the best Indian opener in the post-Gavaskar period?

His performance with the bat and the confetti of praise that has been showered upon him raises this question: Is Shiv Sundar Das the best opening batsman the country has produced in the post-Gavaskar period

02-Jul-2001•Partab Ramchand

Good captains are ready to take the blame

"A captain is only as good as his team." It sounds good when a winning captain makes such a statement, but we in India have got used to beleaguered leaders trotting it out as an excuse for failure

30-Jun-2001•V Ramnarayan

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