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Kohli leaves a 'Virat' legacy behind in Tests

May 17, 2025
The joy of the 2011 World Cup win hadn’t even subsided when India faced two humiliating clean sweep defeats in England, followed by Australia. The magnitude of the defeat can be understood by the fact that in NO game did India even come close to fighting (forget winning). If all…
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WTC Final: India's 'fightless' loss makes calls for transition

June 16, 2023
Twice in three years…India reached the finals of the World Test Championship (WTC), but couldn’t cross the line owing to a pretty mediocre performance at the big stage. The most disheartening fact was that we ended up losing against “them”,  our biggest arch-rivals. At the Oval, the Aussies first put…
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BGT 2023: India retains Trophy, gears up to face Aussies in WTC Final

March 23, 2023
INDIA versus AUSTRALIA. Well, there is no more beautiful term than this, for an avid cricket fan like me. This series too even after starting on a pretty dull and one-sided line, ended on quite an interesting note. Although India historically retained the Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) for the fourth…
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The Fall and Rise of VIRAT KOHLI

October 17, 2022
On September 8, around 9:30 pm. Afghan pacer Fareed Ahmed bowled a short ball a little over the waist, and the confident wrists of VIRAT KOHLI smashed the ball over the deep mid wicket for a six…and finally the drought of 1021 days ended…that was the 71st century for the…