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India tour of Australia 2011-12

Sunil Gavaskar opines Duncan Fletcher lucky to get extension as India coach

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar feels that Duncan Fletcher is lucky to have been handed an extension as no Indian coach would have been able to survive after losing 10 Test matches.

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India geared up for series against New Zealand

The Indian cricket team is due to play their first Test series versus New Zealand starting on the 23rd August in Hyderabad.   India will be playing a Test series after a gap of six long months post the Australian debacle when the Indians lost the series 0-4.   The Men In Blue will have...

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Mickey Arthur becomes ‘Aussie Mickey’

Mickey Arthur, who became the first foreign-born Australian coach, said that he was gifted a t-shirt that read "Aussie Mickey" by Ed Cowan and Brad Haddin just a few weeks after Australia had drubbed India 4-0 in the Test series in January 2012.

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MS Dhoni says comments on retirement ‘blown out of proportion’

India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday rubbished talks about his retirement plans in 2013, saying his comments made during the Australian tour were "blown out of proportion" and there was still time for him to take a call.

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Will Irfan Pathan or Ravichandran Ashwin push Ravindra Jadeja off the No 7 slot?

Umesh Yadav, Virat Kohli and Vinay Kumar have been India’s biggest plus points in an otherwise forgettable tour. With the seniors’ conundrum and the rumoured Mahendra Singh Dhoni-Virender Sehwag spat hogging the headlines, it is understandable that these positives have been overlooked as contentious issues have come to the fore.

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Tour of Australia has starkly exposed India’s many shortcomings

India would need a few miracles if they need to back up their status as World Cup champions and be in contention for a place in the final of the Commonwealth Bank (CB) Series in Australia.

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It would be a huge mistake to rest Gautam Gambhir against Australia

The unbending Indian rotation policy doesn’t seem to encompass the changing situations. Going by the pattern and the logic of the policy, the in-form opener Gautam Gambhir is set to warm the bench when India play Australia at Brisbane. 

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Team India looks like an ascetic in a topless bar – complete misfit!

The hope that things will improve gets battered with failure after successive failure, each of which seems worse than the previous failure, leading to state of despair where finally faith recedes. Not the best of times to be a fan of Indian cricket, and David Warner is not the reason for that.

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Zaheer hasn’t completed a Test series away from home since Bangladesh 2010

Zaheer's fitness woes haven't allowed him to complete numerous series'.

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Second practice game should decide who between Rohit and Kohli will play 1st Test

Performance may be of some importance in determining who bats at No 6.

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