SCG Test, Australia v India – Day One: Australian Top Order Flays India

Viraj Deshpande reviews day one at the SCG as a new era of Indian cricket dawns: Virat Kohli assumes the captaincy of the Test team from MS Dhoni

MCG Test, Australia v India: Day Three – The struggle (within, without)

A solitary ERegnans takes in Day 3 at the MCG and muses on life, cricket, arrogance and all that stuff.

MCG Test, Australia v India – Day Three: Nureyev and Helpmann in Cricket Whites

Day three at the MCG leaves Bob Utber revelling in the joy of watching Test batting at its finest. Kohli’s Nureyev to Rahane’s Helpmann, followed by Harris’ fightback with the ball as the shadows lengthen, is Test cricket at its finest.

Adelaide Test, Australia v India – Day Five: All In All – Musings About This Last Week of Cricket and Life

Yvette has been captured by cricket: the game, the sad passing of Philip Hughes, and this particular Test match. She has been observing what’s happening while reading John Harms’s Confessions of a Thirteenth Man.

Adelaide Test, Australia v India – Day Three : “The Lions of India and the Lyon of Australia.”

Day three at the Adelaide Oval, and the cricket gods reward Bob Utber for coming up with the line: “He leant into the ball like a brush stroke from the hand of daVinci” by granting him some one-on-one time with Rahul Dravid.

Adelaide Test, Australia v India – Day Two: “Do your job”

Day Two saw what will be one of Michael Clarke’s more memorable centuries – but what will it cost him and his side? Callum O’Connor reports.