Dileep Premachandran

For India The Oval 2007 was Sydney 2004 without the pain as India sealed a series win this time round

Will the Oval Test see India's reputation as poor finishers change?

Indian teams can no longer be called poor travellers as the record shows that in the new millenium India have won 16 Tests away and 14 at home

How a humble little squash ball played its part in one of the great batting efforts of our times

Unless things go drastically wrong, Ireland have a Super Eight date with England to look forward to in Guyana a week on Saturday

The importance of openers is reflected in the fact that the top two sides have established, performing pairs

Six ODIs from the World Cup, India have too many variables for comfort

India squandered a golden opportunity to score an elusive series win away from the subcontinent

With his big scores too infrequent to camouflage his string of flops, Sehwag's well of goodwill is running dry

Dileep Premachandran picks through the wreckage of India's 4-0 trouncing by South Africa in the one-day series and finds it very hard to pick out many positives

Any hopes of India turning the corner after the Twenty20 victory was quickly dispelled as South Africa drubbed them by nine wickets to seal a hopelessly one-sided series 4-0.

India's bowlers have often been expensive at the slog after making excellent starts to the innings. Their bowlers neither have a good yorker or a slower ball. It is a problem that they have to solve quickly

On a night when the stars in the crowd were nearly as numerous as those in the sky above, it was Ricky Ponting that shone brightest as Dileep Premachandran, in Mumbai for the ICC Awards, discovered

India's recent form meant they were praying for a minor miracle to beat Australia. The result was just an affirmation of the fact that didn't play good cricket in this tournament

The BCCI's zeal to rehabilitate Azhar has a lot to do with the ICC and little to do with the man himself

Dileep Premachandran previews the chances of Australia, India and England in the Champions Trophy

Dileep Premachandran on how the Champions Trophy should not be viewed as being an irrelevance before the World Cup

Mitchell Johnson decimated India, but has flown back home to Australia as earlier planned. But we'll certainly be seeing more of him in the future.

No matter what the venue, an anticipatory buzz accompanies Sachin Tendulkar's every walk to the middle. And even though only a few hundred turned up at the Kinrara Oval on a gloomy afternoon, there was no mistaking the eagerness with which they settled in

Dileep Premachandran remembers Wasim Raja