NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s
offer to step aside as India captain if a “better” candidate can
be found is a noble gesture given the team’s woeful run of test
form, but several former skippers believe the wicketkeeper
remains the best man for the job.

Under Dhoni, India won the Twenty20 (2007) and 50-over
(2011) World Cups and also became the top-ranked test team,
prompting many observers to hail him the country’s greatest ever
leader.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Following the Pakistan cricket team has often been a veritable health hazard for their supporters, pledging allegiance to a supremely talented but highly fractious bunch that would veer from the sublime to the ridiculous in the blink of an eye.

Even at the start of this decade, the team functioned more like a secret society where any newcomer would struggle to breathe in a dressing room polluted by air thick with suspicion.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Following the Pakistan cricket team has often been a veritable health hazard for their supporters, pledging allegiance to a supremely talented but highly fractious bunch that would veer from the sublime to the ridiculous in the blink of an eye.

Even at the start of this decade, the team functioned more like a secret society where any newcomer would struggle to breathe in a dressing room polluted by air thick with suspicion.

NEW DELHI, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Following the Pakistan
cricket team has often been a veritable health hazard for their
supporters, pledging allegiance to a supremely talented but
highly fractious bunch that would veer from the sublime to the
ridiculous in the blink of an eye.

Even at the start of this decade, the team functioned more
like a secret society where any newcomer would struggle to
breathe in a dressing room polluted by air thick with suspicion.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Hernan Crespo became the hottest property of a new Indian soccer league starting next month when the Argentine fetched $840,000 in an auction of players and coaches on Monday.

Crespo was snapped up by the Barasat franchise of Premier League Soccer (PLS), which is modelled on cricket’s highly successful Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament and scheduled from Feb 25 – April 8 in West Bengal.

NEW DELHI, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Hernan Crespo became the
hottest property of a new Indian soccer league starting next
month when the Argentine fetched $840,000 in an auction of
players and coaches on Monday.

Crespo was snapped up by the Barasat franchise of Premier
League Soccer (PLS), which is modelled on cricket’s highly
successful Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament and
scheduled from Feb. 25-April 8 in the eastern Indian state of
West Bengal.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A wild, top-of-the-table celebration is set to cost the new table tennis champion A. Amalraj a quarter of his winner’s purse, the national federation has said in a statement.

Pitted against six-time national champion Achanta Sharath Kamal in the final of the men’s event at the 73rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships on Sunday, Amalraj had a difficult job at hand.

NEW DELHI, Jan 30 (Reuters) – A wild, top-of-the-table
celebration is set to cost the new Indian table tennis champion
A. Amalraj a quarter of his winner’s purse, the national
federation has said in a statement.

Pitted against six-time national champion Achanta Sharath
Kamal in the final of the men’s event at the 73rd Senior
National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships on Sunday,
Amalraj had a difficult job at hand.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The very thought of Sachin Tendulkar and his contemporaries being shown the exit door would have been dismissed a year ago, but the majority of the Indian cricket fans are now convinced that the ‘golden generation’ should make way for new blood.

After a decade-and-a-half of blind worship, fans believe their demigods have been rendered immobile by feet of clay and are ready to thank them for the memories and move on.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The very thought of Sachin Tendulkar and his contemporaries being shown the exit door would have been dismissed a year ago, but the majority of the Indian cricket fans are now convinced that the ‘golden generation’ should make way for new blood.

After a decade-and-a-half of blind worship, fans believe their demigods have been rendered immobile by feet of clay and are ready to thank them for the memories and move on.