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Madan Mohan

Madan Mohan (Madan Mohan, a 25-year old CA from Mumbai, is passionate about writing, music and cricket. Writing on cricket is like the icing on the cake)

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2015 World Cup semis: India do a Eugenie Bouchard at the SCG

India crashed to a 95-run defeat against Australia in the World Cup semi-finals played at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Thursday.

26 March 2015 •9:22 PM

India tour of South Africa 2013: Team India lose rubber, but win hearts

India's young brigade can return from South Africa with their heads held high.

31 December 2013 •8:22 AM

Ashes 2013-14: England’s arrogance pulled them down

It was only Karma that England lost the Ashes, after urinating in the Oval last time round.

18 December 2013 •4:12 PM

Marauding Mitchell Johnson exposes England’s ineptitude against hostile pace bowling

Johnson’s barrage of high-140s thunderbolts had England hopping, ducking out of trouble’s path.

08 December 2013 •10:28 AM

Sachin Tendulkar’s farewell speech will be long remembered

It may sound like stating the obvious, but even a career spanning 24 years draws to a close, just like that, one fine day. No matter the amount of preparation and build up for the moment, sporting full stops arrive abruptly and suddenly. Saturday morning I had to head off to complete some formalities and when I returned in the afternoon, Sachin Tendulkar had already given his long and emotional farewell speech. There it was, the moment we had been waiting for — rather, dreaded. And it’s already a part of history.

17 November 2013 •12:23 PM

Can numbers capture the drama and intensity of Test cricket?

Numbers don’t lie, but do they always tell the whole truth? I read recently a bold article in a cricket website arguing that Test cricket is possibly in better health than ever before. The writer has compiled statistical tables that show that the percentage of matches that finish in draws has gone down dramatically from 36% in the nineties to 25% in the noughties. He pointed out that the strike rate of some contemporary bowlers like Harbhajan Singh is better than that of more illustrious predecessors like Bishan Singh Bedi or Erapalli Prasanna. The inference he draws from all this is that batsmen take more risks nowadays in cricket, keeping bowlers in the game (contrary to the myth of the balance tilting in favour of batsmen) and making Test cricket more competitive.

20 October 2013 •12:16 PM

Sachin Tendulkar retirement: End of the “Big Three” of Indian cricket

He was around for years and years when Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman debuted for Team India. But to expect him to bat on for a similar period after they retired was perhaps asking too much. Sachin Tendulkar announced his intention to retire from Test cricket after his 200th Test, which should happen in the upcoming home series against West Indies. Having already signed off from One-Day Internationals and opted out of Twenty 20 Internationals, this also marks the end of Tendulkar’s international career. It’s also the end of an era of great Indian batsmanship.

11 October 2013 •9:53 AM

Ashes 2013: Australia belatedly appreciate the virtues of experience

Even as Australia surrendered the fourth Test of the 2013 Ashes in a bizarre climax, at least one of their batsmen had something to celebrate at the end of it.

16 August 2013 •8:46 AM

RIP The Ashes, long live Big Bash League!

On Sunday, as Australia crashed to a heavy defeat at Lord’s, a venue where they hadn’t lost for 75 years previously, its cricket board apparently couldn’t wait to tell the world what a success the Big Bash League (BBL) Twenty20 competition had been. It waxed eloquent about the success of CA’s strategy for BBL, its appeal for people who had not followed cricket previously and its entertainment quotient.

24 July 2013 •8:35 AM

Ashes 2013: Australia show remarkable resolve in narrow defeat

Australia relived the heartbreak of the Ashes 2005 Test played at Edgbaston, losing by 14 runs to bring down the curtains on a thriller. In five days, the 2013 edition of the premier Test series of the game pooh-poohed naysayers of long form cricket, providing plenty by way of thrills and, er, controversies in a relentlessly see saw opening salvo at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Australia would only wish, though, they had finished on the right side of it.

15 July 2013 •10:02 AM

IPL: It’s time N Srinivasan woke up and smelt the filter kaapi

N Srinivasan seems to have channelled the James Callaghan spirit as he battles his very own summer of discontent. Or, perhaps, "disarray" is would be more appropriate word than "discontent".

22 May 2013 •11:12 AM

Before IPL, we had Sharjah

Long before the Indian Premier League (IPL) or even Twenty20 were dreamt of, the Sharjah Cup was a tournament cricket fans from these countries anticipated eagerly.

02 May 2013 •11:19 AM

Will the threat of twin Ashes debacles force Australia to change their ways?

Lately, England and Australia have both begun to derive pleasure from gloating over the other’s losses to other opponents. England could barely conceal their glee as Australia collapsed to an unprecedented 0-4 whitewash in India. When England returned with a stalemate from New Zealand, it was Australia’s turn to gloat. After all, Australia’s got to be 'superior’ to New Zealand and Kiwi conditions are pretty similar to England. So if Peter Fulton could thrash the Pommies for twin tons in a match, so can Phil Hughes, right?

30 March 2013 •12:16 PM

One-sided Test series don’t augur well for the future of the game

Indian fans have tasted 'revenge’ and many probably loved it as Australia crumbled improbably to a third successive defeat on a Mohali flatbed. If India manages to win at Delhi and register a whitewash, they can bask in its afterglow for less than a year… until it’s their turn to go around the world again!

20 March 2013 •9:32 AM

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men must guard against complacency

As I write, New Zealand have given England a rude wake-up call at Dunedin, bowling them out cheaply and piling on runs and more runs. While it looks as though England might get out of jail in the second innings, the so-called Ashes warm-up already seems to have got a bit too hit for comfort. It’s a match that’s instructive for Team India as they sit pretty on a 2-0 lead in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

10 March 2013 •8:07 AM

Captain Michael Clarke under pressure to save Australia’s fast-sinking ship

March 3, 2013 could possibly go down as the day that Michael Clarke’s proverbial honeymoon as Australian cricket captain hurtled to a bitter end. As Cheteshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay piled on the runs at increasing pace in India’s first innings response to Australia, Clarke’s cup of woes spilled over at a worrying rate.

04 March 2013 •8:52 AM

Harbhajan Singh kicks off mind(less) games

Harbhajan Singh has only just been reinstated in the side in spite of a middling Ranji season, but this has not curbed his enthusiasm for verbal warfare. Perhaps it is easier than warfare of the on-field kind.

17 February 2013 •8:15 AM

Dale Steyn — licensed to thrill

Pakistan predictably found South Africa too hot to handle first up at Johannesburg and collapsed in the face of yet another Dale Steyn special.

05 February 2013 •9:41 AM

2012 saw Indian cricket in a freefall; Rahane, Pujara & Bhuvaneshwar beacons of hope

It would be wonderful to write something gloriously optimistic and positive at the start of a new year. But the best one can say about 2012 from Team India’s perspective is that it is finally over. The stranglehold of Murphy’s Law choked India and just about anything that could go wrong did go wrong.

01 January 2013 •1:07 PM

Sachin Tendulkar stands conquered; Indian cricket’s cherished dream is now a nightmare

Sachin Tendulkar’s unsuccessful battle against Anderson at Nagpur may go down as that kind of moment in his career. Will he retire? It really doesn’t matter anymore to me, because I have already seen a phase of his career that I hoped I wouldn’t have to.

20 December 2012 •9:09 AM

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