Despite hosting Andhra, who are lying at the bottom of the Group B heap, Railways seem content to play for three points in their Ranji Trophy Super League...
Common sense is an uncommon degree in what the world calls wisdom. I hadn’t thought of that Samuel Coleridge witticism since school, until Kevin Pietersen brought back memories by pointing out a lack of rational thinking from the organisers of the Kanpur one-day international.
It has been just three months since England completely outplayed the touring South Africans, demolished them 4-0 and seemed to turn the corner as far as their one-day cricket was concerned.
Joshna Chinappa seems to have a special affinity for creating history. The youngster from Chennai, who first stormed into the spotlight when she won the British Junior Open in 2005, broke new ground when she won her second WISPA title in as many weeks, winning the NSC Super Satellite No 4 in Kuala Lumpur. With this, she became the first Indian to not only win a WISPA title but win two, back-to-back.
Reading the name Sachin Tendulkar on an Indian team-sheet is never a happy proposition for any opposition captain, especially if your team is 3-0 down and desperate for a win in order to keep the series alive.
In I-League match against Mumbai FC at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan, Chirag United were clearly the better side, but misfiring strikers meant they had to settle for a 1-1 draw.
The one thing that has grown in cricket over the past decade is the size of a team’s support staff — it’s practically the norm for a squad to include a physiotherapist, a trainer, a psychologist or even nutritionists and strength trainers.
