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The pitch boomerang: how India's rank turners are biting them, not the opposition

In recent years India have been rolling out Test pitches with high turn, but rather than boosting the home side, they have brought the opposition into the game

15-Jan-2025•Himanish Ganjoo

Cheteshwar Pujara on R Ashwin: brilliant, relentless, always learning

The India batter pays tribute to his offspinner team-mate, who stands on the verge of his 100th Test

04-Mar-2024•Cheteshwar Pujara

Were the pitches tougher to bat on in the 2023 India-Australia series or the 2017 one? Here's what the data says

Looking at pitching lines and lengths for offspinners against right-hand batters tells a story

13-Apr-2023•Kartikeya Date

India's season of scraps and fightbacks

They won ten of 13 Tests in 2016-17, and lost one, but it wasn't all plain sailing: in nine matches, they fought back from difficult situations

30-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Snapshots of India's home season

Which was your favourite episode in India's 187-day-long home season?

30-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

Relentless Jadeja, patient Pujara, versatile Umesh

On pitches changing with every venue, India's players adapted nicely to fight back from 0-1 for a series win. ESPNcricinfo rates them out of 10

29-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Poll: The best of India's home season

Have your say on the most memorable performances from the 13 Tests in India since September last year

29-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

Smith twice as good as Australia's next best

Given how keenly the Border-Gavaskar Trophy was contested, it is of no surprise that the key numbers between the two sides stack up in similar fashion

29-Mar-2017•S Rajesh

Australia must build on their near-miss in India

Australia's 2-1 series defeat in India has plenty of echoes from history; various sides have responded to such hard-fought results in starkly contrasting manners

29-Mar-2017•Daniel Brettig

Smith and spinners stand out for Australia

Marks out of ten for Australia's players at the end of their 1-2 series loss to India

29-Mar-2017•Brydon Coverdale

The season of Kohli, and all his men

Thirteen Tests, ten wins, four trophies. This is the story of India's historic home season, and the players that made it happen

29-Mar-2017•Jarrod Kimber in Dharamsala

How hard hands loosened Australia's grip

In both Ranchi and Dharamsala, Australia fell short of posting truly daunting first-innings totals despite hundreds from Steven Smith. It was the lack of big scores from their openers that made it tougher for the middle and lower order

28-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Dharamsala

'The most gripping series I've watched for a long time'

Both the Indian and Australian teams were applauded on Twitter following a hard-fought Test series

28-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

India complete the Test-trophy set

Stats highlights from India's win in Dharamsala, a victory that sealed the series for them

28-Mar-2017•Bharath Seervi

Australia's session of horror and melancholy

Australia had come to India well-prepared, and had competed for three-and-a-half Tests, but the middle session of the third day disrupted all their diligence

27-Mar-2017•Jarrod Kimber in Dharamsala

Umesh's spell of pace and fire

Five-and-a-half-years after his Test debut, Umesh Yadav showed he can be the bowler he has always threatened to be: fast, brutal and thoroughly unpleasant to face

27-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Dharamsala

Plot watch - Normalcy returns with DRS

After two full days when this series seemed to have stopped following its well-established plot lines, today was back to normal service in some ways

27-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

Lyon's blockbuster start to hard scrap

Nathan Lyon claimed 5 for 34 on Test debut in Galle in 2011 but since then he has had to grind for every bit of success

26-Mar-2017•Jarrod Kimber in Dharamsala

India's WACA exam in Dharamsala

Australia's bowlers were pleased, and India's batsmen not so much, when they discovered that the Dharamsala surface played a lot like one in Australia

26-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Dharamsala

Plan against bouncers can't be instinctive

The former India opener analyses different methods batsmen adopt while negotiating the short ball on Indian surfaces where inconsistency in bounce is a big factor

26-Mar-2017•Aakash Chopra

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