Ajay S Shankar
About an hour after noon, the sun shining brightly, Team India skipper Rahul Dravid walked back to the dressing room, shaking his head, stopping to sa
Team India may have hoped that he would stay on, and recover from the “soft tissue injury” on his left calf for the second Test against Bangladesh nex
1, 2, 3,” their dance teacher marked time loudly, “Swagatham”, her students chimed in. But, as little Chittagong spread its arms to welcome the stars
They came into the room smiling broadly at the cameras, quite taken in by all the attention.
This morning, Team India slipped into their hotel swimming pool for a brief stretch after an exhausting day out in the humid Dhaka heat.
Nearing lunch, just as Team India looked like it was going to crumble once again, the ICC headquarters in Dubai sent out an email that began, “India l
Just after a minor dust storm hustled them indoors, and the first drops of rain started pattering down, one of the younger voices in the Indian dressi
Team India’s window to the future will have to remain shut for a while. Manoj Tiwary, the 21-year-old from Kolkata with a near-hundred average in the
Rattled by the storm that followed their World Cup disaster, Team India has slowly begun to pick up the pieces, starting with the first brick
At the end of it all, all the thunder and lightning about finding out what is wrong with the Indian cricket team stood exposed for what it really was
Just after the first session of its board’s much-hyped two-day examination, Indian cricket got the answer to what was probably the most eagerly awaite
The Board will take a decision on the future of Indian cricket. But don’t hold your breath
Greg Chappell may have decided to walk away much before Sachin Tendulkar’s outburst because the coach had already realised that he had nothing more le
In the end, Greg Chappell didn’t wait for the umpire’s decision. One day after he sent this email to
The Indian Express, the man who coached an
The inside story: Coach and players on different pitches, overloaded captain, seniors pulling in different directions
By this time, you would have stepped down from the giant wheel after that dizzy late night ride with the Indian team, still shaking your head.
Just the other day, they were feted, hailed, toasted, some of them even taken home for dinner by people they had never seen before.
High up over the sprawling savannah in Port of Spain, looking down over the hotel balcony at a bubbly bunch of school kids setting up cricket nets on
It may sound politically very incorrect, it may even seem a bit cruel, but some of the Indian cricketers have managed to convey the effect Sanath Jaya
On skipper Dravid’s menu, two days before key match: Final XI, team morale
Sitting on the stairs beneath the dressing room, waiting for his turn to speak, Team India skipper Rahul Dravid knew that though Bermuda was done, the
Minutes after he had raised some eyebrows in front of the cameras by declaring that he was eyeing one more World Cup, Muttiah Muralitharan walked out
The clouds are still hovering over the Queen’s Park Oval, Bermuda has been crushed, and the same fans who had called Rahul Dravid a ‘loser’ after Bang
I have never met Bob Woolmer. But yesterday I saw, for the first time, coach Greg Chappell in a state of shock, the Aussie all-weather mask slipping,
As Virender Sehwag squeezed out that one run to score his first century in the last 15 months, millions of us would have looked up to the heavens alon
