Munaf Patel

Venkatesh Prasad, India's bowling coach, has said the selectors should have consulted him before deciding to pick Munaf Patel for the ongoing one-day series

Chawla was the bowling hero but Powar, the most economical, shouldn't be forgotten

A full house at Bristol were handed an explosive match, India levelling the one-day series with a nine-run victory at Bristol as 649 runs flowed in ideal conditions

A remarkable debut gave way to a year spent on the fringes, but Munaf Patel is finally back, action tweaked and body stronger. Sidharth Monga met him.

Forty eight hours ago an Atlantic storm lashed Glasgow so furiously that the picturesque Clydesdale Cricket Club, the venue for India's first-ever one-day international against Scotland, resembled a duck pond

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been named captain of India's Twenty20 squad for the World Championship to be held in South Africa in September

Munaf Patel is determined to regain his firepower in order to book a berth in the Indian team for the upcoming limited overs series in England

Dennis Lillee is optimistic about Irfan Pathan's chances of returning to the Indian side

The duo are hoping to make the tour to Ireland and England

Sachin Tendulkar and Wasim Jaffer missed the first day of the camp organised for batsmen at the National Cricket Academy

Sriram Veera reports on the progress made by India's bowlers at a fitness camp in Mysore

Dilip Vengsarkar put the onus of keeping the players fit on John Gloster, the team's physio, and Greg King, the trainer

Ishant Sharma, the young Delhi fast bowler, will replace the injured Munaf Patel in the Indian Test squad in Bangladesh

India registered a facile win after West Indies, in a perfect exhibition of the infamous Calypso Collapso, deflated like cheap party balloons and were shot out for a paltry 85 in the scenic Trewlany Stadium in Jamaica

Rahul Dravid was glad that his move to bat at No.5 came off, a position from where he could control the innings

Zaheer's Khan 5 for 42, his best figures in one-dayers, kept Sri Lanka down to 230 before Rahul Dravid and Mahendra Singh Dhoni propelled India past the target to level the series in the third one-dayer at Goa

India's national selectors announced that the same 15 players who formed the squad for the Rajkot one-dayer would travel to the West Indies for the forthcoming World Cup

Munaf, who picked up 2 for 25 from seven overs, nailing Upul Tharanga and Mahela Jayawardene, came in for praise from Rahul Dravid who addressed a brief press conference shortly after play was called off just after 8.30pm