Chapter 2: A Balanced Test — Balanced so far, but India have been in these kinds of situations a zillion times overseas — more in the recent past than before. I trust our bowlers to do the job. Any one of our captains in the ’90s or 2000’s would have killed to have the bowlers that…

Chapter 1: The Beginning — India were holders of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. They were travelling to Australia for the second consecutive time, after having won the series here 2–1 in four tests. Virat Kohli was the first Asian captain to win a series down under, and the build-up to this was even more exciting given…

The VIVO IPL 2021 came to a close on the evening of 15th of October, 2021 at Dubai where the Chennai Super Kings won their fourth ever IPL trophy, sixth ever trophy, and second final against KKR, but for the first time in IPL. Both teams beat Delhi Capitals in…

The first qualifier of VIVO IPL 2021 at Dubai saw Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings meet for a place in the finals. Both teams were coming into this game with losses in their last league games — CSK lost their last 3, while DC lost one. As CSK lost…

The Eliminator saw Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore at Sharjah to book a spot against Delhi Capitals at the same venue on Wednesday night for the second Qualifier match. RCB opted to bat first after winning the toss and went into the game with no changes. …

The second qualifier of the VIVO IPL 2021 saw Delhi Capitals meet Kolkata Knight Riders at Sharjah on Wednesday night to fight for a spot to meet Chennai Super Kings in the finals on Friday, at Dubai. KKR won the toss and opted to field first, and had no changes…

The final match of the VIVO IPL ended with Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals meeting at Dubai. While both had qualified for the playoffs, it was confirmed that DC would finish at the top position, and RCB were into the eliminators. RCB would need to win with a margin…

The 55th match of the VIVO IPL 2021, which was supposed to be a 330 pm IST start was postponed to 730 pm IST owing to the fact that the team should not have the undue advantage of knowing the winning margin ahead of the game. However, it was not…

The last game of the penultimate day of the IPL league stage ended with Kolkata Knight Riders pounding Rajasthan Royals by a massive 86 runs to guarantee themselves a spot in the IPL playoffs — just about. The odds of getting eliminated at this stage is probably the closest to…