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But understanding the context would help here. The previous Test in Sydney had turned out to be an ugly one. The Harbhajan-Symonds incident, the umpiring errors and some of Ponting's own actions had taken all the limelight away from the cricket that Test had produced.
What followed in the next few months is not going to be easily forgotten by Indian fans. Champions Trophy debacle was followed by embarrassing defeats in South Africa and then came the final nail in the coffin - the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean. The team was in tatters.
The NatWest trophy was the white ball domestic tournament in England and as it happens so often with England, in 1991, it got off to a rainy start. Derbyshire were scheduled to play a Minor Counties side Hertfordshire but both the teams were made to wait by the weather gods.
Cook and Yuvi played against each other a fair bit in the late 2000s and early 2010s and so there was a sense of familiarity when the two of them met in 2015 to play an MCC T20 tournament in Dubai. Cook had just gone past the 10,000 run milestone in his Test career. A major feat.
The World Cup in India proved to be a different challenge altogether for the 26-year-old. He didn't get any big scores barring a half-century against Bangladesh but hung on to his place in the side which was to play the Quarter Final clash against New Zealand. At the presser
He was going through an extremely lean patch where he had only 2 fifties to show from 13 innings and those fifties were scores of just 51 and 55. When the team reached Down Under for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in late 2003, Sachin's fortunes only got worse thanks to multiple
in West Indies cricket.
a sport many in the team enjoy playing to relax. With the series still at 1-1, it's only fair to reserve judgment on Stokes and team's methods at this point, but what strikes me is how contrasting it is to what the team was put through more than a decade ago ahead of
The guy Langer was talking to was the highest run scorer in Test cricket at that time. Goes without saying, he knew a thing or two about the game and its many attractions. 'Grumpy', as Border was called, looked straight into Langer's eyes and said to him with a serious face,
The tour was England's first to India in eight years and second in 17 years. They had been embarrassed on the 1993 tour with a 3-0 whitewash. But their chances of staging a comeback in 2001 were thwarted by something that had happened off the cricket field and in a place far away
Then there are fielders who seem bewildered and are appealing for something that can possibly change the outcome of the match. But what if I tell you that the batting team hasn't won the match? And this result, in fact, would result in them losing the series? And the batter
gentle smile seemed to have enough to defuse any tension simmering on the cricket field. And, of course, there was the famous little hop when the score reached 111 that made everyone at the ground smile. 
scripting a story of his own.
Haddin's actions on the day left a bitter taste in the mouth. Throughout New Zealand's innings, he was in the ears of the Kiwi batters, particularly Grant Elliot, who had played the knock of his life in the previous match and won people over with a gesture of a lifetime 
Naturally, tributes poured in from everywhere and deservedly so. Waugh had won two World Cups, one of them as a captain and was at the helm of Australian cricket during their remarkable 16 Test long winning streak. But one man wasn't moved. That was Ian Chappell.
Ponting was just 21 year old when he played in his first World Cup in 1999. Despite having played less than 20 ODIs before the tournament, he was trusted with an important spot in the batting lineup. But besides the century against West Indies in Jaipur, Ponting hadn't made a
England had finished Runner's Up in the 1987 and 1992 World Cups and had made it to the semis of every World Cup before the 1996 one. But in 1996, the only two teams they could defeat in the tournament were UAE and the Netherlands before Sri Lanka thrashed them in the QF.
Mumbai vs Delhi might not be the biggest rivalry in the IPL but for decades until the beginning of this century, Mumbai & Delhi had the biggest of rivalries in domestic cricket, so much so that the distrust and dislike emanating from it would often spill into the Indian team too.
In 2008, India were playing a 4-match series vs Australia at home. They went into the 4th Test of the series with a 1-0 lead but were struck a blow before the match when Gambhir, who had scored 206 in the previous match, was handed a one Test ban for an incident with Watson.