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And good luck to them!
Young cricketers are now being paid to do nothing else but practise, practise, practise. They don’t have to fit their training around a job or studies, so it would be a surprise if they didn’t keep improving
20 February,2025 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
India paid for their obsession with IPL, short-form cricket
It didn’t take Nostradamus to predict the result of the recent Border-Gavaskar Trophy series; the visitors played white-ball cricket with the red ball and consequently only once going the full five days of a Test match
18 January,2025 10:51 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
India’s hopes lie on Bumrah’s shoulder
If Jasprit Bumrah gets injured, the impact of that on the series will be felt more keenly than if any of the Australian quicks go down in a heap
13 December,2024 08:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
India have your numbers, Aus!
Neither Usman Khawaja nor Steve Smith have scored a Test century since June 2023 and Marnus Labuschagne has only one hundred in his last 10 innings
11 November,2024 07:32 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
Right here waiting for you
Cauldrons like the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Gabba are no longer to be feared. The vocal support that Team India can expect would have been unthinkable to commentators like Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri when they first toured Australia for Test matches in 1977-78 and 1985-86 respectively
07 November,2024 11:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
No more a gentle game!
The Spirit of Cricket is a legacy we should honour as a work of art, but has it outlived its time?
21 February,2024 06:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
There has to be action after plan
Until administrators in Australia are ready to accept that the entry barriers for South Asian cricketers are rooted in a sense of superiority and privilege, the newly-formed Multicultural Action Plan will have little meaning
09 January,2024 07:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
It’s a Mitch hunt!
What Johnson has done is exhume corpses best left buried and that has caused a level of cognitive dissonance, irking his former brothers-in-arms
07 December,2023 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
An accident waiting to happen
Despite being inserted on a dry pitch, there were gains to be had for India; but aggression and stupidity are distant cousins and the wrong trait came out on the wrong day
21 November,2023 08:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh
Why poor England can’t be defended
Defending champs were a jaded team playing a brand of cricket that was in stark contrast to their delusional rhetoric; they have confused Tests with ODI cricket
07 November,2023 08:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Michael Jeh