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India fought well to end up with a minor loss of 48 runs against Australia in first test at Adelaide. After an aggresive declaration, Indian captain Virat Kohli bold decision to chase down created worries in Australian team but a middle order collapse ensured the hosts take up 1-0 lead in the series. Here are […]

The Adelaide Test match between India and Australia took a sharp turn on the 4th day of the Test match. A match which was evenly poised on the end of the 3rd day now leaves India to save the Test match , partly due to poor batting display and also due to the rogh patches […]

Virat Kohli became the fourth Indian to score twin hundreds in test matches. It was the seventh instance in the history of India’s Test history. Virat, who scored 115 in the first innings against Australia in the first test at Adelaide a couple of days ago has continued it with a 141 in the second […]

Indian Skipper Virat Kohli scored his seventh Test 100 in the day 3 against Australia. With that he became the fourth Indian batsman to score a 100 in his debut match as a captain. It’s been a long time since an Indian test captain scored a Test 100 outside the sub-continent.  Since the last time […]

As India goes into the first Test in Adelaide starting Tuesday, let us look back some of the finest batting performances by Indian batsmen in Test matches Down Under over the past few series. Here is the first piece from the series of articles. Sachin Tendulkar (116, MCG 1999-00) The series was a story of […]

The build up to the series is quite unlike the other series of the past. The series was scheduled to start on 4th December and the first match was to be played at Brisbane. But after all that has happened in the past week, the entire tour has been rescheduled. The series between India and […]

Each and every batsman start their innings with a zero, and slowly build their innings to reach to a half century. Getting off the mark than slowly building their innings they try to get to the magical figure of hundred, but are not always successful. Sometimes a half century is enough to get the team […]

India have never won a Test series in Australia. Out of their 40 Tests on Australian soil, they have managed to win just five while losing 26 and drawing nine. Here is a look at India’s performance in Tests in Australia from 1991 to 2012.   1991-92 (Australia 4, India 0, Draw 1 ) The […]

The likes of Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan have played an important part in Indian cricket. Their recent performances in the Vijay Hazare Trophy have been not up to the mark (Note: Apart from Zaheer the other three were invovled in the tournament). With World Cup 2015 just few […]