South Africa never lost a single Test when he was captain, but in Ali Bacher’s story, that record occupies nothing more than a footnote.

Former South African cricket boss Ali Bacher was at the centre of the storm when eleven years ago his protégé, the late South Africa captain Hanise Cronje, was found guilty of negotiating with a booki

Gautam Gambhir’s decision to make a mad dash home and get hitched instead of staying back in Kolkata for India’s one-off T20 against England on Saturday has given the old game a new challenge to contend with. It’s not a club versus country tussle anymore, but rather of personal commitments versus cricket.

The controversies Shoaib Akhtar has managed to churn in his career far outnumber his contributions on the field.

His stinging indictment of Sachin Tendulkar’s abilities shows the ex-Pakistan pacer i

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a brand magnet for a reason, and his saleability goes beyond what he can (or cannot) achieve on the field.

There may not be a performance review after this tour concludes and Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men return home to the dusty, dry featherbeds that they find oh so convenient.

It’s ironic, he says, that the man he’s replacing was the very bowler he had formed an iconic partnership with the last time India had been on tour of England.

Huge-billboard size pictures of Zaheer

Halfway into the Test leg of their tour of England, India are running out of players they can put on the field.
Although opener Virender Sehwag will be a welcome addition as Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men pick up the pieces ahead of the third Test at Edgbaston beginning on August 10, they will be without the services of Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh, both injured during India’s 319-run loss in the second Test at Nottingham.

Many years from now, long after Gautam Gambhir would have hung up his gloves, his 97-run knock that gave India a World Cup triumph after 28 years would be remembered as his single most greatest legacy

India exacted revenge of their shock loss to Bangladesh in the 2007 World Cup, with an 87-run mauling of the same opponents in the 2011 opener at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur, near Dhaka, on Saturday.
A 175-run knock by swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag off 140 balls, inclusive of 14 hits to the fence and five over it, coupled with an unbeaten 100 by middle-order