Gautam Gambhir, born on October 14, 1981, is a feisty Indian opening batsman and captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL franchise. Jaideep Vaidya goes through the career of the aggressive Delhi lad.
Ryan Harris, born on October 11, 1979, is an Australian quick whose claim to fame was becoming the Man of the Series for his team during the Ashes 2013. Jaideep Vaidya goes through the career of 'Rhino'.
The mayhem began Thursday at 3.37 pm. A seemingly innocuous tweet by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) created a butterfly effect that shook the foundation of the cricketing world, at the expense of sounding melodramatic. It isn't every day that one of the greatest sporting icons that not only India, but the world has seen, calls it quits from the game.
On October 10, 2003, Australian opener Matthew Hayden became the highest individual run-scorer in a single Test innings when he went past Brian Lara's 375, at the WACA against Zimbabwe, when he scored 380 runs. Jaideep Vaidya revisits the epic knock.
When the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal broke out on May 16 this year, towards the home stretch of the near-two-month-long tournament, nine matches were still left to be played. It would turn out to be one of murkiest and most shocking scandals to hit Indian cricket, one that transcended vocations; and as the days progressed, it reached levels comparable to the cricket match-fixing scandal in the late nineties.
He was called the gentlemen's gentleman. Whoever branded cricket the gentleman's game decades ago must have foreseen someone like him gracing the sport in the future. He was called "The Wall" for his robust, rock-solid, and near-impregnable defence while batting.
There were two shots that Rajasthan Royals' Ajinkya Rahane played in the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) 2013 semi-final against the Chennai Super Kings which were true depictions of the talent that he is but, sadly, wasted by the national selectors.
South Australian batsman Callum Ferguson has been drafted in as injured skipper Michael Clarke's replacement for the seven-match One-Day International (ODI) series against India starting October 13. Jaideep Vaidya looks at the implications of Clarke's absence and Ferguson's inclusion into the Australian team.
Tom Moody, born on October 2, 1965, is an Australian cricketer-turned-coach who was a batting all-rounder in his playing days. Jaideep Vaidya glances through the career of the two-metre 'long' Moody.
India announced a 15-man squad for the one-off Twenty20 International and the first three of seven One-Day Internationals against Australia later this month. While all the focus and the debates have centred on the comeback of Yuvraj Singh and the exclusion of Dinesh Karthik and Umesh Yadav, Jaideep Vaidya goes behind the scenes and analyses the balance of the squad, while comparing it to Australia's.
