DURBAN: Just like the last time the teams played here, South Africa limped away from a traumatic cricket experience against Sri Lanka in Durban shaking their head and seriously pondering the future.

As the Proteas ended 2011 with a groundbreaking Test defeat, there was [...]

MELBOURNE: Batting great Sachin Tendulkar has termed the SCG as his ‘favourite ground’ outside India and hoped to continue his love affair with the stadium in the second Test against Australia, starting January 3.

Tendulkar averages a staggering 221 with two centuries and a double century from just four Tests [...]

MELBOURNE: The ongoing rubber against Australia was seen as India’s best chance of winning a series Down Under, but former captain Sunil Gavaskar on Friday said that the visitors should forget about such a possibility after the humiliating loss in the first Test.

India witnessed yet another poor start to [...]

SYDNEY: Former captain Sourav Ganguly is confident India will bounce back in the second Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG) starting on Tuesday.

India suffered a 122-run loss in the first Test that ended within four days at the Melbourne Cricket Ground [...]

DUBAI: Iconic Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar rose a couple of rungs to be joint fourth but fellow veteran Rahul Dravid dropped out of the top 10 in the latest ICC Test rankings issued on Friday.

Tendulkar, who scored a half century in the opening MCG Test [...]

MELBOURNE: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has a jinxed man in his corner and it’s none other than coach Duncan Fletcher.

For all the praise and admiration the Zimbabwean gets in the cricketing world for his technical wisdom, his record in Australia is as abysmal as it gets. [...]

MELBOURNE: Having claimed the prized wicket of Sachin Tendulkar in both the innings of the first Test at Melbourne, Australia pace spearhead Peter Siddle hopes to nail the iconic batsman again during the Test series.

“Sachin is a big scalp and to [...]

MELBOURNE: Usually dependable, Gautam Gambhir is now bringing deep creases into the forehead of his skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni with his consistent failures of the past two years, and the current tour could be a make-or-break one for the opening batsman.

It’s a law of diminishing returns for [...]

MELBOURNE: The controversy over DRS not being used in the ongoing Test series between Australia and India took an interesting turn with MS Dhoni declaring that he would rather pin his faith on umpires than rely on technology that is not foolproof.

Dhoni’s assertion came on a day on which [...]

MELBOURNE: There was a slight disappointment in skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s voice.

But no remorse after presiding over yet another overseas Test loss – his fifth in a row. The 122-run defeat at the hands of Australia at the MCG on Thursday set India back in the four-Test series, but [...]