The price of over enthusiasm
Plays of the day for the opening day of the third Test between Sri Lanka and India at the P Sara OvalSidharth Monga at the P Sara Oval03-Aug-2010Cost of enthusiasmAfter a heady debut, Suresh Raina…
Graceful and gracious
Bishan Bedi's talent was vast and he had the heart to match. The beauty of his action was bewitching and he had the cruelty to go with itSuresh Menon23-Sep-2010Some years ago, while recuperating after surgery,…
Australia's unfortunate dozen, and India's favourite venue
Ricky Ponting becomes one of only 12 players - all Australian - to suffer two one-wicket defeats in Tests, while Mohali is clearly India's best home groundS Rajesh05-Oct-2010Jinxed by a wicketIndia's stunning come-from-behind win in…
Baboo's story
Ian Chappell thought Baboo Ebrahim better than any white spinner in South Africa. Given the opportunity, he could have played for the country, but his era was not a time for opportunitySidharth Monga18-Jan-2011Ismail "Baboo" Ebrahim's…
New Zealand batsmen mess it up again
Compared to other teams, New Zealand have been most susceptible to top-order collapses, and it happened yet again in NagpurS Rajesh25-Feb-2011New Zealand's shambolic top-order batting ruined another match which was billed as one of the…
The commoner's colossus
A Lahore urchin, Lala Amarnath grew to walk with princes, but never lost sight of his rootsKN Prabhu28-Mar-2011I am aware Lala Amarnath was not popular among his contemporaries, and the lesser men who followed chose…
Whimpering exits, errant tweets and the third left-hander
An ambush on a mountain, India's other wicket-keeper, Shaun Marsh takes the orange cap and more in a review of the action from the sixth week of the IPL Dustin Silgardo20-May-2011The whimpering exitsNot even Ravi…
Sangakkara's role-switch, Watson's Dilshan-moment
ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the second day of the second Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, in PallekeleDaniel Brettig in Pallekele09-Sep-2011The unheeded warningSuranga Lakmal's first ball to Shane Watson on the…
Going back to Australia's Twenty20 roots
On the eve of the Big Bash League, we revisit the first Twenty20 match played in Australia, in January 2005Alex Malcolm15-Dec-2011On January 12 2005, the WACA was sold out. It was the first time the…
Kohli shows he belongs in Tests
A breakthrough innings that was played against a similar backdrop to VVS Laxman's Sydney symphony in 1999Sidharth Monga at the Adelaide Oval26-Jan-2012Twelve years ago, on a similarly gloomy tour of Australia, a 25-year-old Indian found…