Author: Rahul Giri













 The century drought lasted 23 Tests and 41 innings, but even as the average and strike-rate plummeted, Virat Kohli’s commitment to excellence never did. Can he now gone on to enjoy the kind of Indian summer that Sachin Tendulkar and Jacques Kallis did?   The banks of the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad have been witness to some historic moments in Indian cricket. It was there that Sunil Gavaskar became the first man to scale the 10,000-Test-run mountain. It was also the venue where India became the first team to beat Australia in a World Cup knockout game since 1996,…



-Atreyo Mukhopadhyay Boring? Yes, because spectators these days prefer watching quick runs rather than a quiet contest between bat and ball. Monotonous? Perhaps, because the day’s play was mostly about India’s dogged batting against some restrictive lines bowled by the Australians. A spectacle? Not quite, because there were not many moments that sent the pulses of the spectators or TV audiences racing. Is that all? Not at all. It may not have a very exciting day of cricket from a viewer’s point of view, but the contest was engrossing in its own way. Neither side was ready to give an…