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Anand Sachar
Anand Sachar is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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Not an automatic selection: Now, questions of fitness, class, time await Dhoni ahead of every game
India skipper Virat Kohli may not have said it, but the writing is on the wall for the former captain.
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Spontaneous combustion or measured assault? Hardik Pandya needs to decide which form he’ll take
The 23-year-old can’t simply look to smash every ball out of the park.
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Champions Trophy is the beginning of MS Dhoni’s final chapter, soak it in while it lasts
The Dhoni story may not last too much longer but it will continue to amaze for as long as it does, as the warm-up match against New Zealand showed.
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Trending
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Arundhati Roy: The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world
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‘Jaane Jaan’ review: A dream cast and solid craft steer ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ adaptation
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Watch: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi reprise their characters of Munna Bhai and Circuit for ad campaign
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India at Asian Games, September 22 schedule: Indian paddlers in action; Volleyball team to play R12
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Fiction: Rumours say an ex-army chief is staging a military coup. How will the government respond?
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England is Virat Kohli’s final frontier and Champions Trophy is another chance to conquer it
It may not be the red cherry at the Champions Trophy, but the venue is still England, a place where Kohli hasn’t done too well in the past.
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Yuvraj, Gambhir, Zaheer, Harbhajan: An IPL to remember for Indian cricket’s old guard
IPL 2017 rewound the clock for the romantics of India’s most recent favourite cricket generation.
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From Dravid to Jayawardene, the rise of recently active cricketers donning the coach’s hat in IPL
The hurry to take up coaching roles in the IPL stems from the opportunity the players perceive to coach teams at the international level.
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Video
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Watch: Rahul Gandhi puts on railway porters’ uniform and badge and carries luggage as he meets them
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Watch: The moment when Pope Francis joined a priest’s video call to his family back in Kerala
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Watch: Scenes of chaos at Mumbai Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations as crowd breaks through barricade
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Watch: Man brews coffee and records it in cinematic style inspired by the film ‘Oppenheimer’
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Watch: Deep-sea footage of World War II shipwrecks from the Battle of Midway in the Pacific Ocean
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‘He has experience you can’t buy’: Corey Anderson on playing under captain ‘fantastic’ Zaheer Khan
The big-hitting Kiwi all-rounder talks to Scroll about a new start in the IPL, how he deals with injuries, and a hearing deficiency not many know about…
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Sunil Narine, the batsman, has reinforced the pinch-hitting formula in T20 cricket
It is almost an ode to the ODI generation, when pinch-hitters were in vogue; albeit with greater chances of success.
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From all-weather man to crisis man and captain, Ajinkya Rahane has come a long way
Throughout this season, the Mumbai batsman has come to India's rescue when the team most needed it.
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The Reel
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‘Jaane Jaan’ review: A dream cast and solid craft steer ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ adaptation
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What’s behind the Kareena Kapoor Khan swerve: ‘It’s important to keep changing yourself’
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Sriram Raghavan: Remembering the dark side to Dev Anand
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‘Khufiya’ trailer: Tabu, Ali Fazal in Vishal Bhardwaj’s spy thriller
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Host’ is a Korean creature feature with head and heart
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For 'special talent’ Kuldeep Yadav, there could not have been a better debut
The 22-year-old from Kanpur cried after his coach asked him to give up pace for spin. This is his journey.
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Batsmen, beware. Ishant Sharma is no longer the gentle giant of Indian cricket
Can the lanky fast bowler's recently-discovered furious side improve his consistency and develop an aura of fear around him?
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Thanks to the Kohli brand of ruthlessness, this Indian team is like no other
Australia are renowned for their sledging but in Kohli’s India, they have met their match.
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The Field
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India at Asian Games, September 22 schedule: Indian paddlers in action; Volleyball team to play R12
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ICC Men’s ODI World Cup: South Africa announce revised squad with pacers Nortje, Magala ruled out
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Misplaced priorities: India’s preference for multi-sport events needs a relook
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Watch, Asian Games highlights: India stun three-time champs Korea to make it to volleyball knockouts
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Asian Games, Boxing: Deepak Bhoria – once undernourished and counted out, now India’s best medal bet