England's batters have been hiding their failures under the pretext of Bazball. This classic case of escapism has now been exposed by India's 4-1 victory in the Test series.
Bazball destroyed England’s greatest batter in this series. Joe Root scored a brilliant hundred in fourth Test match only when he shunned the illogical Bazball approach. This should be lesson enough.
After India set a competitive target of 169, England’s openers Buttler and Hales smashed India to all parts of the Adelaide Oval to a victory by 10 wickets with 4 overs to spare.
Syed Mushtaq Ali played for India from 1936 to 1952, and left legendary bowlers flummoxed with his hitting. In 2006-07, the BCCI named its Twenty20 competition after him.
Virat Kohli is right that the England series was more hard-fought than scoreline suggests, but he’s wrong in believing it wasn’t in hands of Team India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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