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The selection committee to the ministry of sports in India has recommended the name of Indian batsman Rohit Sharma for the Arjuna Award, India’s second highest sporting honour for 2014-15. Arjuna Award is the second highest honour for Indian sports persons. Tennis star Sania Mirza has been chosen for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the […]

The much anticipated India vs Sri Lanka series is all set to get kicked off in a couple of days’ time and it will mark the beginning of Virat Kohli’s captaincy era as he is set to lead his side for the first time in a full test series. This series will also be the […]

The much anticipated Test series between India and Sri Lanka is all set to begin from August 12th. Galle International stadium will be the venue for the first Test match. Over the years Galle International stadium has hosted several close Test matches and has produced great results. However, the Indian batsman haven’t seen much success […]

India’s biggest concern at the moment in batting department is their no.3 batsman. After the Indian great Rahul Dravid who managed to maintain his position as no.3 batsman for over 16 years, India has been struggling to find a proper no.3 batsman. Cheteshwar Pujara, who seemed to be a possible replacement at no.3 looked really […]

Cricket is known for its kindness. International cricketers travel through the world and make friendship with each other while playing for the country. There are many who shares good relationship with a particular cricketer even after the retirment. For example Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly of India ; and Kumar Sangakkara and Jayawardene of Sri […]

We all have our own personal hobbies in our lives right? Some of us like to collect coins or stamps, some us like to click new pictures, some remained hooked to the latest fascinating computer and video games and so on. And our Indian cricketers are no different. Apart from playing cricket, they also like […]

“The nervous nineties” is the most uncertain corridor for a batsman, till now the 33 cricketers are trapped while going through this corridor. There are a few great cricketers who manage to avoid this corridor. This list features almost every great of Test cricket including Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Steve Waugh, Virender Sehwag, Brian Lara, […]

2035 Papua New Guinea: Green and red flags adorned the iconic Amini Park cricket ground, PNG, as Bangladesh lifted their first World Cup. The final was a tight one between the home team PNG and the toygers (read: Tigers) of Bangladesh. Winning the toss, PNG chose to bat but lost one of their openers pretty […]

It’s not only by fours and sixes that an innings is build up of, 1s and 2s count quite a lot while it’s hard to take risks. And it is a run out, when the strength of fielders and wicket-keeper comes to account. Sometimes it is brilliance of the fielders, sometimes it is miscommunication, but […]

Coaching in this wonderful game of cricket is nothing less than a challenging art. Coaching in cricket is all about educating well known and relatively unknown cricketers with the tricks and trades of the game. The most challenging and daunting aspect about coaching though, is about dealing with the varied mindsets of the players, and […]