The hope Bangladesh held out early was however frittered away towards the end

Sri Lanka ground down the visitors in humid conditions, with 125 runs coming in the first session, 107 in the second and 118 in the third as the lead swelled to 488

It was, even by Bangladesh's modest Test standards, quite a collapse and Sri Lanka drove home the advantage by batting aggressively

Dodda Ganesh, the right-arm medium-fast bowler from Karnataka, who played four Tests and one ODI, announced his retirement from all forms of the game in Bangalore

Cricinfo sought Srinath's views on the fastbowlers selected for the tour of England

Virender Sehwag has been working hard of late to iron out the flaws in his batting

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

The chants of Dada, Dada ringed the arena as Sourav Ganguly walked out

Mohammad Rafique won't bowl the ball of the millennium, but he has the admiration of his team-mates and the respect of the opponents

An efficient bowling performance from Asia XI was followed by a sensible run-chase as they romped to a six-wicket win against Africa XI in the Twenty20 clash against Africa XI at Bangalore

An African side shorn of the continent's best-known players will take on a relatively heavyweight Asian team and hope to give it their best shot

When two wicketkeepers appear for a side in the same game

India's Test team comprises two specialist wicketkeepers but there are precendents to this. Sriram Veera looks at the colourful characters who stood behind the stumps for India

He was the first superstar of West Indies cricket. He bowled furiously, batted aggressively and was an outstanding fielder

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

After four months out of the game, the West Indian maestro got the World Cup off to a cracking start

Yuvraj Singh, who has been declared fully fit, and Anil Kumble are back in the Indian one-day squad for the remaining two one-day internationals against West Indies at Chennai and Vadodara respectively.

The demons on the pitch were working overtime - Sourav Ganguly fell pushing too early, Sachin Tendulkar perished driving loosely, India limping at 35 for 3 - when Dinesh Karthik entered the fray

Lack of proper planning seems to be the reason behind the sluggish pitch laid out for the second one-dayer at Cuttack

Ramesh Powar led a disciplined bowling performance on a slow and low pitch to steer India to a thrilling 20-run victory at Nagpur.