Wasim Akram and Sachin Tendulkar during an India-Pakistan ODI at The Adelaide Oval, Australia on January 25, 2000. (Jack Atley/ALLSPORT/Getty Images) Once upon a time, cobbling up your own combined India-Pakistan XIs over long afternoons used to be standard practice for cricket fans. That was the era of fierce cross-border rivalries, when the two teams … Read more
Ravichandran Ashwin. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images) Did rejection hurt him so bad that he couldn’t take it anymore? This question has left the Indian cricket world in a tizzy as R Ashwin – India’s second highest Test wicket-taker – announced his shock retirement from international cricket on a rain-soaked Tuesday afternoon in Brisbane.This wasn’t … Read more
Ravichandran Ashwin. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) In Brisbane rain, an Ashwin googly…’My last day as an Indian cricketer’: Spin stalwart R Ashwin chooses drawn Test to call end on a storied careerBRISBANE: India’s campaign in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy was jolted by the shock retirement of spin stalwart Ravichandran Ashwin in the middle of the … Read more