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Indian cricket team can win against odds in all conditions, says Hayden

Indian team has all the markings of a great team as it can not only fight it out but win against the odds in all conditions, says former Australia opener Matthew Hayden

All-rounder Yusuf Pathan announces retirement from all forms of cricket

Yusuf Pathan was part of the inaugural T20 World Cup-winning side in 2007 and also the one that triumphed in the 2011 ODI World Cup at home

IND vs ENG 3rd Test: Batsmen struggle to get a hang of skiddy pink ball

To give an idea about the rarity of the occasion, it was only the 22nd match ever in the history of Test cricket to end inside two days and the second in India

Wearing shoes with rubber sole: Azharuddin's advice to batsmen on turners

Wearing shoes with rubber soles, assured footwork and proper shot-selection are the keys to success for batsmen on a 'rank turner' like the Motera pitch, feels Mohammed Azharuddin

It's for ICC to decide whether Motera pitch is fit for purpose: Joe Root

Joe Root said it is up to the ICC, and not the players, to decide whether the Motera pitch is suitable for Test cricket after his side was crushed inside two days by India in a low-scoring day-nighter

India vs England: Rohit's bane turns into his success on tough tracks

After his dismissal off the bowling of Lyon in the first innings of the fourth Test against Australia in Brisbane last month, Rohit Sharma was criticised for being too aggressive and profligate

India vs England: Former players feel Motera pitch not ideal for Tests

Several former players, including Harbhajan Singh and VVS Laxman, said that the spin-friendly Motera pitch was not ideal for Test cricket, an opinion that was not shared by legendary Sunil Gavaskar

Indian spinners expose England's mental frailties, weak skill-sets

England's mental fragility, as well as its lack of skills, were laid bare as slow bowlers Axar Patel and R Ashwin kept them under a tight leash with wicket-to-wicket line

IND vs ENG 3rd Test: Fans came to watch Kohli face Anderson, says Root

England skipper Joe Root said he feels like the spectators have almost been 'robbed' as they came to watch Virat Kohli face the likes of James Anderson and Broad but watched him taking wickets instead

Intent to score was needed on Motera track, it was a normal wicket: Rohit

Intent to score and not just survive was the key to flourish on the Motera pitch, asserted India opener Rohit Sharma who batted effortlessly on the 'interesting but normal' pitch

Kohli eclipses Dhoni to record maximum Test wins as captain on home soil

Virat Kohli surpassed MS Dhoni's record of winning maximum number of Test matches as captain on home soil after leading the side to a 10-wicket victory over England in the day-night third Test

IND vs ENG: Kohli laments poor batting by both teams on good batting wicket

Virat Kohli lamented the quality of batting from India and England in the third Test that saw teams getting bowled out for low scores in the first three completed innings

IND vs ENG: Motera pitch was good, quality of batting was not, says Kohli

Virat Kohli said poor batting and not the pitch was responsible for the day-night third Test vs England winding up inside two days and described the performance of batsmen on both sides as 'bizarre'

Pitch or team? English media divided over reasons for Motera debacle

The British media lambasted its cricket team's abject surrender to India in the pink-ball Test

People's mandate no license to act irresponsibly: Sena on stadium renaming

Shiv Sena targeted the Centre over the renaming of Ahmedabad's Sardar Patel cricket stadium after Prime Minister Narendra Modi

IND vs ENG: It's all about confidence, says Axar on phenomenal Test outings

It was a long wait for Axar Patel and it didn't help that everyone around him had just one question for the past three years -- "Why aren't you in the Indian team?"

Motera Stadium: Yechury joins meme fest, says it's a 'pawri' of cronies

Jumping on the 'pawri ho rahi hai' bandwagon, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury used the trending meme to mock the Centre's explanation for renaming a cricket stadium in Gujarat

India vs England Test series: Ian Bell slams England's rotation policy

England guilty of thinking too far ahead, have gone wrong with rotation policy, says former England batsman Ian Bell

IND vs ENG: Bizzare that 21 of 30 wkts fell to straight balls, says Kohli

India skipper Virat Kohli brought forward a relevant point that the quality of batting was to be blamed as most of the batsmen got out to balls that didn't turn

England out of WTC final contention; India move up to top spot in standings

India knocked England out of contention from the ICC World Test Championship final, scheduled to take place in June, with its 10-wicket triumph in the day-night third Test at Narendra Modi Stadium