Young guns have turned the corner

The recent success in both Tests and ODI series against one of the best sides in the world, Sri Lanka, augers well for Team India, in general and its talented youngsters in particular and promises even better performances in 2010. Under-19 World Cup winning skipper Virat Kohli, his teammate Ravindra Jadeja and Suresh Raina seems to have grown in stature after showing signs of nervousness and apprehension during the start of their careers even though their abundant talent was visible in glimpses in the past. The consistency they....

Posted by V Veera Kumar at 13 : 36 | 0 comments

Leave Sachin alone!

What was meant to be a straight forward answer from the heart by India's iconic sportsman Sachin Tendulkar is made into an unnecessary controversy by Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray though not just the majority of the Maharashtrians but the whole of India seems to be solidly behind the little master. I don't think the world's best batsman needed this kind of a diversion during a very important home series against Sri Lankans but then Shiv Sena is know to make mountain out of a mole hill at....

Posted by V Veera Kumar at 15 : 22 | 8 comments

Why bring back Sreesanth?

The Indian selectors, chaired by Krishnamachari Srikkanth, seems to be bent upon pleasing the state units more than picking the best possible team for the forthcoming Test series against Sri Lanka. Otherwise, how would anyone explain the inclusion of India's spoilt brat S Sreesanth for the first two Test matches, when he has hardly played any competitive cricket in the past one year or so. Sreesanth started off as a promising new ball bowler, who could trouble the best of batsmen with sheer pace, but unfortunately ended up....

Posted by V Veera Kumar at 14 : 40 | 13 comments

Amazing fightback

The Aussie cricketers may not be the most sportive people in the world but it is amazing how they do find ways to make comebacks with sheer will and determination like they have managed to do in the on-going series against India, when everything seemed lost. Of course, in the nineties and early twenties, they had proven match-winners like Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Mathew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist and many more to win them matches from impossible situations but with the present (almost a second string) side even they....

Posted by V Veera Kumar at 13 : 33 | 4 comments