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Serious Thinking Needed for India After Series Defeat Against Australia

Today’s loss against Australia at Guwahati meant that a full-strength India lost a home series against a depleted Australian side with one match to go. It is too early with respect to the 2011 World Cup to hit the panic … Continue reading

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India v Australia One Day Series Schedule

It starts from Sunday. Here you go: October 5 (Sunday) at Vadodara – starts at 9:00 am IST October 28 (Wednesday) at Nagpur – Day/Night starts at 2:30 pm IST October 31 (Saturday) at Delhi – Day/Night starts at 2:30 … Continue reading

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Poll: Will India Beat Australia?

What will be the margin of victory or loss for India against Australia in the one-dayers? What will be Scoreline of India – Australia Series?(answers)

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India Coast to Victory Against Pakistan in Warm-Up

It was touted as the most important match of the Twenty20 World Cup, albeit a warmup match that was not part of the World Cup. Because of the seedings problem we talked about, the only way Pakistan and India can … Continue reading

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Should India Have Declared Earlier?

As the last Test against New Zealand was disrupted by rain and the match ended in a draw, once again the cricket fans and commentators have turned against the Indian cricket team captain and management saying that they should have … Continue reading

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India Make Major Inroads Towards No. 1 Status

As I write this, New Zealand are 235/5 chasing another 382 runs in just over 70 overs. Practically impossible. More to the point, they may not even survive those overs. India would have won the series by 1-0 or 2-0 … Continue reading

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A Missed Opportunity by Sehwag

When India was asked to follow on in the second test against New Zealand, I thought Virender Sehwag would set up and intriguing final two days of the match. We all remember how Sehwag pummeled 83 runs off just 68 balls, giving … Continue reading

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The India-New Zealand Blogging Wars

DeadBall and Short of a Length have been going at each other over the India-NZ series. Right now, it is kind of a wash as NZ won the T20 series handily and India is leading the one-day series 2-0. Of … Continue reading

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India as Usual in New Zealand

If anyone was expecting the Indian team to be behaving different on this tour of New Zealand, they would have been disappointed, but not surprised. If India was Australia’s Final Frontier, then New Zealand is India’s Collective Train Wreck. Not … Continue reading

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The Multiple Indian Squads for New Zealand

Here are the Indian squads for the New Zealand tour, by Tests, ODIs and T20′s: Tests ODIs T20s MS Dhoni Yes Yes Yes Yuvraj Singh Yes Yes Yes Gautam Gambhir Yes Yes Yes Harbhajan Singh Yes Yes Yes Dinesh Karthik … Continue reading

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