Sachin: a Billion Dreams
As if the life and times of Sachin Tendulkar weren’t prominent enough, the little master now has his own film, directed by James Erskine, out in cinemas now. The Cricket Blog was lucky enough to get ...
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Joe Root must learn from Virat Kohli
It has been a chastening winter for all of England’s cricketers in India. Heavy defeat in the Test match series was followed up by more disappointment in an enthralling ODI series and has come as a h...
Time for Test specialists as England seek improvement
India’s crushing win in the third Test match against England in Mohali hardly came as a surprise following a dreadful third day for England. After letting India take a significant lead into the secon...
Duckett and Hameed show England’s, and cricket’s, problem
The state of modern batsmanship is at a worryingly low ebb. The recent capitulations by Australia and England encapsulate a larger pandemic that seems to be spreading like wild fire throughout the ga...
R Ashwin’s ascent – the best cricketer in the world?
It’s always difficult to agree on a topic such as this, but who is the best cricketer in the world right now? One man who is enjoying a stellar 2016 is Ravichandran Ashwin, the Indian all-rounder who...
Yuzvendra Chahal earns chance with the India cricket team
The ninth IPL season ends on Sunday and after a hectic schedule many players will get a well-earned period of rest. India, however, are sending an ODI and T20 squad to Zimbabwe for a series of games ...
Why won’t the BBC give the IPL proper coverage?
In the modern world, cricket is a rapidly changing game. Gone are the days of Test match cricket monopolising the calendar and even the original one day formats have been changed and modified to refl...