When you look at India’s itinerary in the World Cup, it clearly dawns that they are the most favoured hosts of three. Of course it helps when one of the BCCI’s top administrators is the tournament commissioner and the resultant is a sizeable gap between most of their six first-round matches. As if that...

When the fixture list for this tournament was drawn a long time ago, the India-Ireland encounter was just another of those matches where the minnows would line-up against a powerhouse team, hoping to have a good day. If they did, it would just about make an impression of the progress they have made since...