| Stump Vision - by R. Mohan |
| - Team India are not bad travellers |
| The tag of Team India Team India tending to travel badly like wine is old hat. The syndrome vanished in the last decade in which India won Test series in various climes – Pakistan, West Indies, England and New Zealand besides a dominant 1-1 draw in Australia. But one country that continues to bother India in the new millennium is Sri Lanka.
Why the emerald isle, which is being seen more and more as an attractive holiday paradise around the world now, should prove inhibiting to Team India is becoming a modern cricket mystery. It is understandable if Indians felt uncomfortable in the ’80s when they crossed the Palk Straits at the height of t.....more |
| From the Diary - by Sunil Gavaskar |
| - Sunny's Column (646) |
| What a way to go! Muthiah Muralitharan signed off from test cricket not only by scaling bowling’s impossible peak by reaching 800 wickets in test cricket but also helping his team to win the first test match. He got the last Indian wicket in the second innings to get to that landmark which looks pretty hard to be beaten though we have seen in life and in cricket that nothing is ever impossible. For some time it appeared as if he would be stranded short of that mark as Lasith Malinga ripped the heart out of the Indian batting and that cricket historians and statisticians would remember him for being left on 799 wickets like Sir Don Bradman is .....more |