Delhi's Olympian has come back to a resounding reception, and yet he does not hesitate to return to the monastic life he embraced more than a decade ago when he sought guru Sat Pal and submitted to the rigours of training
To start consolidating the gains from the last season and minimise the losses of the last few months? To getting the team selection and the batting order right? To revert to old-fashioned cricketing strategy?
We may spend a lifetime and more in trying to discover what snapped on the night on which Zidane combined the calm of the Buddha and the agility of the samurai with the instinct of a streetfighter.
If More was serious about grooming VRV Singh, he was forgetting that the selectors had spared no thought to the impact on RP Singh, man of the match on Test debut in Faisalabad. Does he not need any grooming?
Between July 30 and now, India has played a maximum of 89 days of international cricket. In comparison, tennis ace Roger Federer played close to 100 days last year. Tiger Woods featured in 126 days of competitive golf. The cricketers must stop making
Tendulkar's brilliant reading of the pitch and the situation, Yuvraj's growing maturity that led him to change gears at will and Dhoni's outright aggression all contributed to India's successful pursuit of victory.
The 24-year-old has left Team India scratching its collective head, wondering how his prolific scoring ways can be curtailed.
Short boundaries, locked stadium doors and security personnel looking the other way when thousands of lives can be at stake.Someone needs to accept responsibility. Who will that be in the PCB?
Selectors on tour - a good or a bad thing? Well, so far, the BCCI's move has meant that the selectors may get a first hand perspective, but it does have a flip side too.
In not even putting a semblance of a fight after Pakistan set India the task of batting five and a half sessions to earn a draw, the Indian batsmen showed, to put it mildly, a distinct lack of application.
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