Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon A decade ago, when the match-fixing scandal broke, there was a possibility that Indian cricket might be destroyed. Especially since the national captain was involved. If India survived...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon Often a baton-exchange in cricket takes place in full public view, although sometimes its significance becomes clear only much later. When Vijay Merchant ended his career with 154 against...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings and chief of selectors. “The batting did not click for us,” Krishnamachari Srikkanth has pointed out with devastating honesty. “We also did...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon The most tense period of play in the India-England series were the 20 minutes when there was no action on the field on day three of the Trent Bridge Test. Would Indian captain Mahendra...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon It is fashionable today to claim that there is no such thing as talent and that all achievement is the result of hard work, or, in the words of Malcolm Gladwell, the “10,000-hour rule...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon Viv Richards or Brian Lara? Keith Miller or Walter Hammond? Malcolm Marshall or Waqar Younis? W G Grace or Ranjitsinhji? These are only some of the questions a sole selector of an all...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon The obituary of Test cricket has been written so often that it comes as a surprise to realise that we are on the brink of the 2000th match. Appropriately enough, England take on India...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricket By Suresh Menon As with all compromises, both sides claim victory. But that is hardly relevant. The International Cricket Council might feel its authority has been restored; the Board of Control for...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricke t By Suresh Menon Not always in Indian cricket has a vice captain automatically become captain. It is unlikely that either Harbhajan Singh or V V S Laxman, who have the job in the West Indies in the...

Now, you can get all the USA Cricket updates via Facebook . Also follow us on Twitter via @dreamcricke t By Suresh Menon For those above a certain age, the West Indies have represented the finest in cricket; their players so naturally gifted and so charmingly laidback that they seemed to play the game...