Sehwag, Gambhir's smug overconfidence exposed; Team India needs to wake up and smell the coffee

Sehwag, Gambhir's smug overconfidence exposed; Team India needs to wake up and smell the coffee  When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat – Pat Riley, respected basketball player and coach and now President of Miami Heat. --- Riley was preaching from his years of experience as a basketball player ...

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India vs England 2012: Pune T20I - Preview

Pune: India need to put behind the humiliation of losing the Test rubber against England and regroup quickly to take on the confident visitors in the first of the two T20 Internationals here from Thursday. Under-fire for the first Test series loss to England in 28 years and and with his captaincy under the scanner, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni will have to put these issues on the back burner and motivate his teammates for the shortest format...

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Laxman and Srikkanth to mentor Sun Risers as Tom Moody appointed coach

Hyderabad: The Indian Premier League (IPL) team, owned by the Sun Network, will be formally inaugurated in Hyderabad on Thursday. The Chennai-based media company, which acquired the team for Rs 425 crore, will unveil its logo and team name at a grand function. The team will be called Sun Risers.The team has roped in Kris Srikkanth and VVS Laxman as mentors. Their exact roles have not yet been defined by the team management, but team officials...

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All Proteas players to be given ‘game time’ during T20 ties against Black Caps

Johannesburg: South Africa’s T20 coach Russell Domingo has said that he plans to give ‘game time’ to all the players in his 15-man squad match during their three-match T20 series against New Zealand. “That’s the plan. We have 15 players; Dale (Steyn) will play on Friday and probably miss the last two, and Morné (Morkel) will come in and play after that so everybody is going to get some sort of game time in the series. That is important for...

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Pujara, Kohli, Ojha only future hopes

There's not much to pick and choose when you have lost a home series after an eight-year dominance. With most of the stalwarts retired, a couple dropped and a legend fighting to make up his mind, India look a dismal shadow of the team that became No. 1 in 2009. But it was expected, and now that the transition phase has actually arrived, here's a look back at the Test series loss against England to analyse who out...

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