India's bowling is their Achilles' heel and recalling Rahul Dravid to prop the batting order is a retrograde step, according to former cricketers Wasim Akram and Sanjay Manjrekar.
A depleted India will be thoroughly tested by Sri Lanka Cricket Board President's XI, which boasts of six players from the Test squad, in the three-day warm-up match, starting at the Colts Cricket Club in Colombo, on Tuesday.
India registered their first victory over Sri Lanka at Dambulla, when they won the second ODI of the five-match series on Wednesday.
Former skipper Sunil Gavaskar believes India's bowling is still a concern and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will have to add some sting to their attack ahead of World Cup semi-final clash against Pakistan.
Master batsman Sachin Tendulkar was seen sporting a new look at India's practice session in Motera on Tuesday. Taking a cue from some of his teammates, the master batsmen dyed his curly locks brown.
The Indian cricket team's trouble doesn't end with their ouster from Twenty20 World Cup with reports suggesting that some of the players were involved in a pub brawl here even though Yuvraj Singh dismissed the claim.
Carrying out terror attacks during the World Cup in India may be an urgent necessity for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the Inter Services Intelligence before the common Pakistani begins to ask questions as to why his country has been denied the holding of the World Cup.
The erratic form of Indian seamers in the lead up to the World Cup does not concern Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni as they had been instructed not to exert themselves in the warm-up matches.
Guests trouped out of Arpita Khan's party and into Mukesh Ambani's, on the other side of Mumbai.
R Vinay Kumar and Murali Vijay are the new faces in India's 15-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup, beginning in the West Indies, on Friday.
With the help of statistics, Aabhas Sharma analyses four knotty questions the selection of the Indian team for World Cup 2011 has thrown up.
Wisden, the highly respected cricket publication, on Wednesday named Virender Sehwag as the Leading Cricketer in the World for 2008 and Mahendra Singh Dhoni captain of its first ever Dream Test XI which has five Indians in the ranks.
If the South African team is looking at home in the scorching Indian summer, the credit largely goes to its physio, Shane Jabbar, who has come well-prepared for the tough conditions.
Bolstered by the return of pace spearhead Zaheer Khan, India would look to stamp their superiority and clinch the five-match series against New Zealand with a third straight victory in the third One-dayer in Vadodara on Saturday.
Statistical highlights of the opening day's play in the first Test between India and New Zealand at Hamilton on Wednesday.
New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori has identified fast bowler Ishant Sharma as the key to India's victory in the third and final Test held in Nagpur.
India should play South Africa on turning tracks in the forthcoming two-match home Test series rather than playing on pace-friendly pitches, feels former captain Kapil Dev.
Following are the statistical highlights at the end of the second and final India-Bangladesh Test at Mirpur on Wednesday.
Images from Day 2 of the first Test between India and New Zealand in Hyderabad on Friday.
Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma says the former India spin ace has played a lot of games in the IPL, knows the format, the opposition well.
India posted a mammoth first innings score before claiming a couple of wickets to continue their domination against New Zealand, on Day 2 of the first Test, at the Sardar Patel stadium, in Motera, Ahmedabad, on Friday.
Images from the fourth One-Day International at the Eden Gardens on Thursday.
Dwayne Bravo's superb all-round showing saw Mumbai Indians edge past Royal Challengers Bangalore in a thrilling finish in the Group B match of the Champions League Twenty20 in Durban, on Sunday.
The southpaw slammed 75 as Uttar Pradesh ended day one on 303 for six against Baroda
Impressed with the skill-set of young speedsters at the MRF pace academy in Chennai, Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath said that hunting for stronger bodies from the northern part of India can be the answer to the nation's thirst for producing more fast bowlers.
India will be without many key players in the tri-series due to injuries but captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni says it's a blessing in disguise as it presents them with an opportunity to test bench strength ahead of the 2011 World Cup.
India will be without many key players in the tri-series due to injuries but captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni says it's a blessing in disguise as it presents them with an opportunity to test bench strength ahead of the 2011 World Cup.
Former Indian captain Anil Kumble on Sunday said that absence of key players in the Indian team cost them a major tournament like Champions Trophy.
Kumble has gone wicketless only twice in an innings at home after conceding 100 runs. Overall this was the sixth such instance. India has never won a Test in which this has happened.
If his exciting talent and the rich encomia showered on him by the likes of Wasim Akram and Sourav Ganguly are any indication, then India may have unearthed a potentially world-class fast bowler in Jaydev Unadkat.
India left out off-spinner Ramesh Powar, preferring young leg-spinner Piyush Chawla instead for the day-night encounter.
Images from the Tuesday's Asia Cup league match betweeen India and Sri Lanka, in Dambulla.
The Royal Challengers Bangalore were almost on the verge of defeating the Mumbai Indians at the MCA stadium in Pune on Saturday night when...
India's cricket selectors did a volte-face on Thursday when they brought in seniors to replace youngsters for the ODI series in Sri Lanka and Champions Trophy. It was not surprising that Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh made a comeback and making way for them were Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Yusuf Pathan and Manpreet Singh Gony.
A 16-member Indian team, eager to ease the pain of their Twenty20 World Cup debacle, arrived in Port-of-Spain from London on Friday for a four-match ODI series against the West Indies, starting June 26. The visitors landed at the Norman Manley International Airport in Jamaica without key players Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan.
Opener Virender Sehwag was forced to miss the match after failing to recover from a shoulder injury, but pace bowler Zaheer Khan was declared fit and included in the team after missing the two warm-up matches.
Images from the fifth day's play in the second Test between India and South Africa at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, on Thursday.
Intense action is in store when play resumes on Day 2. Can India bounce back and take a sizeable lead? India Abroad's Harish Kotian is at the ground posting updates as they happen. Follow what's the latest from the Test on Harish's MyPage!
Images from the first day's play in the second Test between India and South Africa at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Sachin Tendulkar (160) scored his 42nd Test century as India amassed a 241-run first innings lead before reducing New Zealand to 75 for 3 in the second innings on Day 3 of the first Test.
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