EMOTION ran high among the Indian players as they walked back to the dressing room after coming second-best by a distance to Australia in the World Cup final. It was a feeling of disappointment at not realising the dreams of more than a billion people. The trophy that had eluded them since 2011 remained out …
Just as the sun shed its scorch, with the afternoon drifting to the evening, swathes of schoolchildren in white uniforms began their flag-spreading drill rehearsals. Four of them held onto one side of the flag — those of all 10 nations in the World Cup were unfurled, first with enthusiasm and then with lethargy, The …
If there is a defining shot of this World Cup, it’s the imperious down-the-pitch charge to seamers by India captain Rohit Sharma. If there is one defining ball from the 2015 World Cup final, it’s Mitchell Starc’s devilish yorker that clattered the stumps of the advancing Brendon McCullum, New Zealand’s talisman. Rohit versus Starc could …
While the whole world and importantly the Afghanistan team watched him writhing in pain on the ground, and dealing with cramps in toes, calf, hamstring and back spasms, hoping he would buckle under, any moment, Glenn Maxwell had throughout been working on messing with their minds at Wankhede. The sixes and fours would inevitably rain …
Glenn Maxwell looked broken. He was crawling on his knees between overs, gasping in pain, but his spirit remained intact. The Aussie kept swishing his bat around to score an unbeaten 201 to script possibly the greatest ODI knock of all time. It was certainly the greatest innings in a World Cup chase, the one …