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The bundles of thick cables by Gate 7 at Green Park were a dead giveaway

Pakistan View

A statistical analysis of Shahid Afridi's century

Gerald de Kock was one peeved communications officer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After a summer and autumn of discontent, India's cricket team can put their feet up this evening, safe in the knowledge that the opening-batting conundrum appears to be nearer a solution - on placid home pitches at least

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

Rahul Dravid and John Wright speak about the pitch at Kanpur ahead of India's first Test against South Africa

Graeme Smith and Ray Jennings speak out ahead of South Africa's first Test at Kanpur against India

Sourav Ganguly is free to play in the first Test against South Africa at Kanpur, which starts on Saturday (Nov 20), after the ICC decided that it was impractical for the appeal against his two-match ban to be heard before the match

Shivkumar Yadav had no aspirations or training to be a curator as he was growing up but now, in his mid-thirties, he finds himself in charge of the Green Park pitch at Kanpur

Kanpur and Mohali have been confirmed as the venues for New Zealand's tour of India in September-October, but doubts have arisen about Kanpur's readiness for a match

It is about time that the selectors gave some thought to playing five specialist bowlers in the side

It appeared that England had got off to an incredible start to their innings when Nick Knight and Marcus Trescothick put on 71 for the first wicket in ten overs