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Team India failed unit test

Thursday 18 June '09

Their first match on this trip, the warm-up against New Zealand, India lost by nine runs; their last game of the campaign.
Clash of contrasts as Pak take on SA

Thursday 18 June '09

Will the South Africans choke? Or will the Pakistanis self-destruct?
spinners keep it tight

Wednesday 17 June '09

For a team who have been knocked out of the tournament a couple of days ago, a team left with nothing to play for....
Couldn't connect, we lost our players during IPL: Coach

Tuesday 16 June '09

Riding on 39 days of manic IPL action, Indians were the men in form, the side that had figured this format out. So what went wrong for M S Dhoni and his team? Bad form? Bad planning? Bad luck?
After shock, one for pride

Tuesday 16 June '09

Five days of an interesting Test pass quickly. Five days of a Twenty20 tournament can seem like years....
OUT

Monday 15 June '09

England quicks send India out of World T20 championship, win by three runs....
Home or away? Lord’s turns out in lighter shade of blue

Monday 15 June '09

When India play England at Lord’s, which side has the home advantage?
First time as captain, Dhoni faces Sunday Stress

Sunday 14 June '09

For the last couple of years, ever since their World Twenty20 title in South Africa, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team have strutted....
Two years after, Yuvraj meets Broad in similar setting

Sunday 14 June '09

India versus England or Yuvraj versus Broad? It’s a crucial, must-win clash for both teams, but when the battle within is as mouth-watering as this one...
Windies rock Indian boat

Saturday 13 June '09

The West Indies fast bowlers had a plan, and unlike the norm in Twenty20 cricket, keeping it in the right areas wasn’t a part of it.
Three months after Lahore, SL too good for ‘distracted’ Pak

Saturday 13 June '09

Salman Butt was belting it out of the practice area, as was Misbah-ul-Haq, and the bowlers ran in with purpose and hit the right areas most of the time.
‘We knew about Viru’s injury’ Dhoni

Friday 12 June '09

The Indian cricket team’s World Twenty20 campaign has so far been played out at two parallel tracks.
Rohit’s plugged the hole, but bigger tests await

Friday 12 June '09

Under normal circumstances, losing Virender Sehwag in the run-up to a major event would turn out to be a massive blow for the team.
Man who invented T20 sits back — and pitches for the future

Thursday 11 June '09

Stuart Robertson is acknowledged as the inventor of T20 cricket although he has slipped away from the glaring spotlight the game has been under since 2003 when it made its debut in England.
Swinging in the rain

Thursday 11 June '09

The Ireland batting line-up, especially in the absence of their mainstay Niall O’Brien, is hardly one to measure a bowling attack’s potency against.
From turmoil, Lanka rise up again

Thursday 11 June '09

Just over three months ago, the Sri Lankan cricket team were being shot at in their team bus on their way to the Gadaffi Stadium.
Injured Sehwag on way home, Dhoni a little hurt

Wednesday 10 June '09

The Board of Control for Cricket in India confirmed that Virender Sehwag would play no further part in the tournament.
‘We’ve got some thinking to do’

Wednesday 10 June '09

Ricky Ponting wasn’t exactly at a loss for words after the knock-out blow...
Taking no chances

Wednesday 10 June '09

India take on Ireland in their final Group A match here at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, and will be keen not to slip up against the associate nation.
Injured Sehwag on way home, Dhoni a little hurt

Tuesday 9 June '09

The BCCI confirmed that Virender Sehwag would play no further part in the tournament.
Irish amateurs do it again

Tuesday 9 June '09

Remember them? The sheep farmers, school teachers and lorry drivers who made the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean their own are back, with a bang.
No words, only actions in camp India

Tuesday 9 June '09

The Lady Bay cricket facility next to the Trent Bridge stadium was proving to be too small for Yusuf Pathan.
Ojha adds to India’s aura

Monday 8 June '09

Sunday morning, sleepy Nottingham woke up to a steady drizzle. Dull, grey, windy and damp...
Australia face moment of truth

Monday 8 June '09

When they sent Andrew Symonds home for the latest in a series of transgressions...
Yuvraj calls the shots

Sunday 7 June '09

It’s hard to imagine that two years ago, Gautam Gambhir was still on the fringes of the Indian cricket team, having got his chance....
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