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Image Source: BCCI and ECB official websites. Test match is arguable the toughest format of the game and one of the most interesting formats too. A lot of thought is given to the selection of athlete(s) for the Playing XI for a given Test Series and each Test Match, to be precise. If it is a five-matches series in England, the stakes are significantly higher than usual. We all are enthusiasts and fanatics of sports (in this case Cricket), and we can feel the difference when it comes down to playing a sport for 5-days and when the game itself resembles our day-to-day lives. Doesn’t it? You start fresh every day, with new and more exciting challenges (such as weather), new opportunities, new setbacks, new record-breaking performances. Irrelevant of the Nation or the Team you represent. Harsha Bhogle kind of sums it up quite nicely for us, “I like many things about Test Match Cricket. We go through difficult phases in life. Maybe, financially we are not that well-off. The fact that you p...

When it comes down to ranking the best sport, we have different views & ranks for all the different flavors & the variety of sporting activities we can find in different corners of the world. Cricket seems to find a spot in Top-10 every year because of the ICC World Cups or the T20 extravaganza or maybe the moneyball that happens around via T20 leagues across Australia, India, South Africa, Pakistan, England & many more. If we compare the top-ranked sport in the world, it is necessary to catch-up with the recently hot-topics going around - the MS Dhoni saga & the wicket-keeping standards he has set for the players to fill for the vacant position.  To get to some answers, we will have to go through a story of which I’d like to call the wicket-keeping-batsman era of world cricket because it is not just MS Dhoni, there has been an equal contribution of Kumar Sangakkara and Adam Gilchrist who have changed the perception of being a solid pillar for the batting unit whil...

There have been multiple discussions and debates on social media platforms and we have been watching people share details of athlete's achievement in their respective sport and in the caption, they often describe cricket, being the only reason for that sport and the athlete for not getting the respect she/he deserves or request the viewers to pay attention over the win of other dimensions of sports specifically when Indian Cricket registers a win.  Personally, I am totally against the fact of criticizing just one game to be the sole reason, why other sporting dimensions are unable to make that impact without people noticing the efforts and story of those athletes, because of endless reasons.  Is it really cricket that is responsible for other sports not growing in India or is it the people of India not accepting the culture of being a sports-educated society who gives equal importance to studies as well as physical activity for our children to grow both physic...