Pakistan tries to cement ties with Saudi Arabia

India should remember that Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relations will remain special due, not least, to bonds of all Muslims with The Holy Land.They would also be strategic enough, irrespective of......

Who will enforce Pak SC's order to clip ISI's wings?

Despite being declared illegal by the Pakistan supreme court, it seems an uphill task for the fragile civilian government in Islamabad to compel the mighty security establishment to disband the......

Games Spies Play

'Why has the rhetoric gone down on the Indian side, Durrani wondered aloud.''I said because almost total normalcy and peace had returned on the ground in Kashmir,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.'The......

Were the Mumbai terror attacks a warning to Islamabad?

Experts trace the reasons for the 26/11 attacks to the Pakistan's military interest in three key areas: Kashmir, Afghanistan and nuclear armaments. Part 1: How the ISI tried to erase the traces of......

When It Was Bradman Versus India

History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, beginning in......

Ball tampering possible even with TV cameras on: M

Cricketer-turned-television commentator Sanjay Manjrekar says tampering with a cricket ball can be done without being caught on any of the numerous television cameras shooting the on-field......

Sunil Gavaskar, Indian Cricket's Real Master

When he ended his Test career, he held the following Test records: Most Tests (125). Most consecutive Tests (106). Most runs (10,122). Most hundreds (34). Most scores of 50 or more (79). Most......

Memories of another Melbourne Test

India lost the third Testin Melbourne in the current series after having been in a great position on Day 1. But V Gangadhar remembers another Test at the famous venue where India turned it around......

Flashpoints in contests with Australia

Sunil Gavaskar minced no words in 1999-2000 when he wrote that the Indians were up against 13 men when playing against Australia in Australia.Sachin Tendulkar's dismissal in the first Test against......