Boria Majumdar

India need to forget what happened against South Africa and get their act together against Bangladesh and Australia.

It was March 2020 and the Indian women had made the final of the world T-20 in Australia against all odds.

India versus Bangladesh could well turn into a one-sided affair. India, on paper, are the stronger side and will need a convincing win to ensure their net run rate stays comfortably ahead of South Africa. The immediate task is to put the Australia game aside and concentrate fully on Bangladesh. One step at a time, as they say. There were several areas of concern in the South Africa match, and each of them needs to be ironed out at Old Trafford later today.

For Sir Clive Lloyd, 25 June 1983 remains a melancholic memory that he has relived many times since. While the wound has healed with time, the scar remains. The first time I discussed the 1983 World Cup at length with Sir Clive was in Oxford in 2009, during the ICC Centenary Conference, which I had the pleasure of organising.

While June 23 is celebrated as International Olympic Day, June 25 can lay claim to be designated as India's national cricket day.

While we all remember June 25, 1983, not many remember the start of the journey on the same day in 1932.

India made the chase look easy and won in a canter, but if you are an Indian fan, there are enough reasons to be worried ahead of the game against Australia at Lord's on 28 June.

We keep hearing the phrase ‘good headache to have' when it comes to selection when a team is blessed with an abundance of talent. I actually don't think the headache is pleasant, because you eventually end up taking a call that deprives one very good player of an opportunity. And that's exactly where India find themselves at this point.

We keep hearing the phrase ‘good headache to have’ when it comes to selection when a team is blessed with an abundance of talent. I actually don’t think the headache is pleasant, because you eventually end up taking a call that deprives one very good player of an opportunity. And that’s exactly where India find

While a separate changing room is preferable, in case there is no separate room Vaibhav will have to change at different times compared to all the adults in the team. That’s a mandatory requirement and will have to be followed.