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Three Indian pairs in the QF of doubles (while four Indians have made R2 in singles, one of whom is already in the QF, and at a minimum another Indian definitely will be in the QF since two play each other). [R1] 1- Arjun Kadhe/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND/IND) d. Rithwik Bollipalli/Niki Kaliyandi Poo...

[R2] WC- Sasikumar Mukund (IND,457) d. Q-Felix Gill (GBR,344) 61 60 :dance: Mukund holds at love to take the first set 6-1 Mukund breaks at the start of the second set, after a couple of deuces. Then holds easily. 2-0 Breaks again! 3-0 And he cruises to 6-0 in the second set!! He rises to 421 in the...

Patidar has failed completely in 3 of the 4 innings he has played in tests. The way he got out in both innings in Rajkot was truly shocking: looked like an utterly inept dilettante. Given those performances, I am actually shocked that he is still in the squad. Frankly he has shown quite emphatically...

Good job by the Indian men and women to make the play-offs (i.e., the last 24). The format is: each of the 8 pool toppers make it straight to the last-16. The second and third from each pool (16 teams in total) play the play-offs to determine who will play the pool toppers who are already in the las...

Both husband and wife were in Delhi recently. I don't think they are planning to retire yet, but parenting is probably taking up a bit of time.

For a change, doubles results continue to be disappointing. 2 of the 3 Indian pairs lost today. The only win: [R1] Siddhant Banthia/Parikshit Somani (IND/IND) d. Goncalo Oliveira (POR)/Luca Margaroli (SUI) 57 76(5) 10-5 But: [R1] 4- N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/Andre Begemann (GER) l. Kaito Uesugi/Toshihid...

[R1] 1- Sumit Nagal (IND,101) d. Yu Hsiou Hsu (TWN,227) 76 64 [R1] WC- Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,420) d. Stefano Napolitano (ITA,160) 76(5) 76(5) Sumit moves decisively into the top-100 now. He is at a new career high of 95 in the live ATP rankings. Ramkumar moves up to 406. Niki is 729, and there ar...

Apparently Bumrah is going to be rested for the Ranchi test, in order to keep him fresh for Dharamsala, where a green-top is expected. So there is talk of Padikkal getting a test debut, if Rahul isn't yet fit. So, we may go with Rohit, Yashaswi, Shubman, Rahul/Padikkal, Sarfaraz, Jadeja, Jurel (wk),...

Next up for Niki is the top seed, Sumit, assuming the latter wins his R1 against a Taiwanese opponent.

Mukund's opponent will be either 19-year-old Coleman Wong (HKG,237) or 21 year old Q-Felix Gill (GBR, 344).

It'll be funny to have Sweden trying to run away from clay in order to neutralise Sumit. Delicious!

Two terrific upset victories in R1 of the main draw by Indian wildcards today:

[R1] WC-Sasikumar Mukund (IND,457) d. (8) Federico Gaio (ITA,202) 63 62
[R1] WC-Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,791) d. Goncalo Oliveira (POR,213) 63 67(2) 76(3)

After 70 tests, Jaddu now has 3005 test runs at a batting average of 37.09, and 287 test wickets at an average of 24.14 apiece. One of India's greatest test bowlers ever by the numbers, with 3000+ runs as well (including 4 centuries). A year ago, he bowled India to victory at the Kotla against Austr...

Shardul Thakur and Mukesh Kumar went back to play Ranji trophy in this round, and absolutely slaughtered the opposition. Mukesh took 10/50 in the two innings against Bihar, and Shardul took 10/52 against Assam, delivering innings defeats for their respective sides Bengal and Mumbai. I think that rea...

Let's have a few upsets by home-country players ousting foreign seeds!!

I was quite disappointed the selectors/team management didn't select Jaiswal for the ODI WC (and instead selected him for the unimportant Asian Games tournament). As we can well see, he is a match winner across all formats and he could well have got us over the hump in place of just an average Gill...