Labour’s Reckoning
The crisis engulfing Britain’s Labour government is no longer merely about the future of the prime minister.
The crisis engulfing Britain’s Labour government is no longer merely about the future of the prime minister.
I grew up in Kolkata at a time when public life carried a certain dignity. Politics was not merely a contest for power; it was also an exercise in restraint, language, and moral posture.
England skipper Ben Stokes is set to return to competitive cricket during Durham’s County Championship match against Worcestershire.
England quick Ollie Robinson believes he is ready to return to Test cricket and show his best form if he gets another chance during the upcoming home summer.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) opener Phil Salt has returned to England for scans on his injured finger, which has kept him out of the team’s last three matches in IPL 2026. In his absence, fellow England player Jacob Bethell has been opening the batting alongside Virat Kohli.
England's innings on Thursday lasted for 75.5 overs, which was quite close to the 79.2 overs it lasted across two innings combined in the third Test.
Which implied India’s own frailties in the briefest Test held in this land and even though some experts had already said that Motera wasn’t quite as blatantly spin-friendly as Chepauk during the second Test, the hosts’ guiding philosophy, once the first Test had been lost, was that no matter how they batted on designer tracks themselves, the visitors would do worse. India got it right too.
English skipper Joe Root informed about the return of James Anderson, Jofra Archer, Jonny Bairstow and Zak Crawley into the team.
Some evidence of it could be discerned this week when Sourav Ganguly, ahead of the Motera Test, a pinkball one, against England, spoke eloquently of a fullhouse blockbuster in the offing and how delighted he was that normality had returned after the loss of so many months to Covid-19.
And India confront a new reality in that, as the global reaction to England’s victory in the first Test drove home, they are the team to have a go at in the wake of the stunning series triumph they pulled off down under. The current contests had initially been previewed in terms of their centrality to the World Test Championship table equations ~ they are important enough still ~ but India’s defeat in the first Test bunged in sub-plots aplenty.
