Bhajji and Tendlya stick it to the Aussies

A great day for the series as such and finally India sticks it to the opposition to throw open the match to a great contest. It was important that Tendulkar and Sourav play well to ensure that the total comes close to the Aussies and they both stuck it out as well as they could. It took a couple of failures on the part of Dinesh karthik that too up the order, which is typically not his bread and butter spot, for a witch-hunt to be ordered. I wonder now what there is to say on Yuvraj merely b...

What a Jaffer of an innings

Wasim Jaffer pummeled the Pakistan bowlers on day 1 of the second test at Eden gardens, Kolkatta, with an absolutely brilliant 192*, to take India to 352/3 at the end of the day's play. The day started with plenty of melodramatics from Shoaib Akhtar, who on a normal day when he is so-called fit, runs out of steam in 3 overs, was now attempting to bowl with his viral infection and ended up giving Pakistan a huge liability to face with. It was like a "bold and the the beautiful" soap serial wit...