From bell to bell, the fight lasted a total of three minutes, a minute-and-a-half shorter than his entrance. Even those three minutes felt like a stretch

Chris Gayle, KXIP | Virat Kohli, RCB | Suresh Raina, CSK | Rohit Sharma, MI | AB de Villiers, RCB | MS Dhoni, CSK | Sunil Narine, KKR | Dwayne Bravo, CSK | Bhuvneshwar Kumar, SRH | Amit Mishra, DD | Sandeep Sharma, SRH

If ball-tampering is a crime in cricket, then it is a pardonable one

Economic lessons from the captain’s chase

The fabled land of sweet waters is on the verge of dehydration. Aditya Iyer in Cape Town captures the mood before Day Zero

Open conversation with Sourav Ganguly, former captain, Indian cricket team

After being ignored for the first two Tests, Ajinkya Rahane puts selection policy to shame with a match-winning knock in the final game against South Africa

With a seven-wicket burst post-tea on Day Four, India's pacers break South Africa's resistance to win Johannesburg Test

Match officials nearly jeopardise a brilliant Test match after India tackle hazardous batting conditions to set South Africa target of 241 runs

Fast bowlers Bumrah and Bhuvi drag India back into third Test by bowling out South Africa for 194, just 7 runs more than their first innings total

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