To take only four wickets on the final day on a pitch offering the spinners enough assistance to be awkward was simply not good enough, and the fact that Sachin Tendulkar claimed his 41st century was

With no end in sight to the CAB’s ongoing controversy over the IPL accounts, the entire case has now been handed over to a special panel of legal eagles that is expected to sort things out and close the chapter once and for all.

The Eden Gardens, home of the Shahrukh Khan-owned Kolkata Knight Riders, hosted seven matches of the IPL Twenty20 Championship during the April 20-May 25 carnival.

Well, at least there's no doubt that the decision to play the first Test at Chennai was vindicated. That was a superb game, rounded off by a fantastic knock from Sachin Tendulkar. There was something for everyone — except, for England, the right result.

Defeats like that can have a huge effect. The hardest loss to take during my time as coach came in Adelaide. This was on a par but in Australia we blew it on the last morning with the bat. This time England had more than enough runs to play with.

"Time is running out fast and it will be difficult for us to make security and logistical arrangements at short notice. We are still waiting for a final answer from the Indian board.

On the discussions he had with Yuvraj and memories of the 1999 Test against Pakistan: Yes, that Test did occur in my mind and that is when I actually went and told