India 'B' 236/4 is 45th over; India 'A' 295/5
Azhar scored 50 in (46) and Sharath 42 with the 100 coming up in the 21st over. Niraj Patel scored a quick-fire 70 in just 63 balls with seven fours and Mongia adding 24 in 22 balls.
Jadeja to lead Board President's XI; Azhar, Mongia in side
Board President's XI which will play a three
day game against the visiting South Africa team at the Brabourne Stadium
in Bombay next Saturday.
Cricket diary
Prem Panicker on the Challenger Series. And chucking controversies. And innovations in the world of cricket. In the next instalment of his notes from a cricket-lover's diary
A sight for sore eyesA
The Armchair Expert. On why watching cricket on Channel 9 is a whole new ball game.
Domestic cricket damned
Dilip Vengsarkar laments the decline of India's domestic cricket and blames the board for not looking at ways to improve it.
The best of the nineties
Mohandas Menon does a wrap-up of limited over internationals in the last decade.
Guest Columns
One more post-mortem
What went wrong for India in Australia? Who should have been in the team and who not? Balaji Krishnan seems to have the answers.
Handicap the Aussies - save cricket
Soam Acharya proposes a system of handicaps for certain
key members of the Australian one-day team to check their dominance.
Looking ahead
Kanishk Bhatia examines Indian cricket's talent bank and offers some suggestions which could be of use to our selectors when picking future teams.
Yesterday's issue
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