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Eden Gardens 2001: Silver Jubilee of a Kolkata epic

VVS Laxman, one of the architect's of that incredible Test victory, looks back fondly on how it all transpired in Kolkata

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Features • Mar 13

The perfect game that never came

England's 2026 T20 World Cup campaign never quite produced the complete performance. Yet they remained alive in games longer than the situations often suggested possible.

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Features • Mar 13

Flags, anthem, action: Crafting a cricket match

Unfurled by volunteers, giant recycled-plastic flags set the stage at the T20 World Cup where cricket, national pride and a sustainability message meet before the game begins

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Features • Mar 13

Suryakumar Yadav, ready in waiting

He spent years looking ready before the opportunity arrived. Now, in a home World Cup final, the occasion meets him as captain

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Features • Mar 13

Where stories look for an ending

A difficult tour of India brings New Zealand back to the same opponent in a World Cup final, while Abhishek Sharma and Varun Chakaravarthy pursue unfinished stories of their own

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Features • Mar 13

The tactical fault lines of the India-New Zealand final

Ahmedabad's batting-friendly surface, New Zealand's dominance against pace and India's off spin vulnerability create a fascinating tactical puzzle ahead of the T20 World Cup final

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Features • Mar 13

'There was no point being stubborn' - Sitanshu Kotak on India's mid-World Cup batting shake-up

A preview of our exclusive interview with India's batting coach, who opens up on the team's fearless batting philosophy, the World Cup arcs of Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma, and more. Full interview out tomorrow!

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Features • Mar 13

The echo of Kolkata: South Africa's uneasy next act against New Zealand

Merely days after a shock semifinal exit at a World Cup, South Africa will face their conquerors in a bilateral T20I series

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Features • Mar 13

Suryakumar Yadav: Glory, and a place in Indian cricket folklore

Suryakumar Yadav was nowhere near the reckoning to be India's T20 captain after Rohit Sharma. But he found the support, and he repaid it with a World Cup title at home

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Features • Mar 13

Losing early wickets made us think that we had to utilise Sanju - Kotak

India's batting coach opens up about India's T20 World Cup winning campaign - bringing back Sanju Samson, trusting Abhishek Sharma, the high risk-high reward approach, and much more in an exclusive interview with Cricbuzz

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Features • Mar 04

India vs England: A familiar semifinal at a different Wankhede

All the tactical subplots ahead of a semifinal showdown that has become a recurring chapter in the last three T20 World Cups

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Features • Feb 21

How Australia sleepwalked out of the World Cup

The Mitchell Marsh-led side endured arguably their worst world cup campaign but how many fans and non-team related stakeholders will pay heed or even notice?

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Features • Feb 21

The unexaggerative, unvarnished, unspiced Quinton de Kock

Fill a room with a 100+ reporters on the eve of a T20 World Cup game against India, and de Kock still remains a hear-the-question, answer-the-question, no-frills kind of guy

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Features • Feb 20

Jacob Duffy's winning hand

Once a prodigy, then a peripheral figure, Jacob Duffy has spent a career discovering that early arrival and late blooming can belong to the same story

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Features • Feb 19

Indian cricket deserves better than the cupcake catastrophe

Indian cricket is its busy mind, its beating heart, and an engine fuelled by nothing less than love. These people are steeped in cricket, not cupcakes

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