There cannot be much debate about the fact that the Indian Premier League (IPL) attracts the finest cricketing talent in the world. Each and every team in the world’s premier T20 league has men who can dramatically alter the course of a game in a matter of few balls that creates spectacular finishes. H Natarajan picks a Dream XI from an outrageous talent pool in the fifth edition.
As Sachin Tendulkar celebrates his 39th birthday today, there are growing questions in the minds millions of his fans: How long will the maestro continue playing for the country? Will he play the 2015 World Cup?
Tarot reader Shruti Chopra provides the answers.
Its one year today since MS Dhoni’s men won the 2011 World Cup. H Natarajan goes back in time and finds remarkable similarities between India’s World Cup triumphs in 2011 and 1983.
By H Natarajan
The news is the cricketing equivalent of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In a sensational and unexpected development that is bound to devastate Indian cricket fans, Sachin Tendulkar has decided to quit international cricket.
It’s exactly 25 years since Sunil Gavaskar last played for India. H Natarajan recalls the Little Master’s epic effort in that final innings against Pakistan at Bangalore which has strange coincidences with Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th international hundred on Friday.
By H Natarajan & Nishad Pai Vaidya
Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar created record on Friday as he completed his 100 international centuries. On this occasion, CricketCountry takes a look at the 100 special moments of the Little Master's life.
By H Natarajan
It’s exactly 11 months today since India won the 2011 World Cup. Yet, quite unbelievably, many of the team who successfully climbed cricket’s Mt Everest have fallen by the wayside. Let us go through the track record of each member of the World Cup-winning Indian team since the quadrennial championship last April:
By H Natarajan
In a side of ageing maestros, Virat Kohli offers India the flame hope that in him there is at least one potential world class player who is capable of taking over the baton from the battle-worn, ageing heroes.
By H Natarajan
Gambhir has now gone without a Test century for 33 innings. His last Test hundred was two years back in Bangladesh. Sehwag, Gambhir’s opening partner, hasn't scored a hundred outside the subcontinent since January 2008 – that’s almost four long years!
By H Natarajan
The Indian team is now clutching at every straw to avoid the tour turning into tour drown under. Advice have been flying thick and fast as to what the team could possibly do to arrest it from becoming yet another nightmare.
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