Lakshmipathy Balaji

The Indian selectors, acting on the advice of the captain and coach, will decide on Wednesday about the number of players to be included in the preliminary list to be submitted to the ICC for the Champions Trophy in October

Lakshmipathy Balaji, the Indian fast bowler, is making encouraging progress with his recovery from a back injury, according to John Gloster, the Indian team physio

Lakshmipathy Balaji, the Indian fast bowler, says he is ready to take a fitness test this week to be in contention for the tour to West Indies

The moment of taking the new ball for India in a Test again is not here just yet, but when it comes, you sense Balaji won't waste it

Rahul Dravid, Irfan Pathan, Parthiv Patel and Lakshmipathy Balaji visit the LUMS university in Lahore

Wasim Jaffer followed up his first-innings century with a fluent unbeaten 58 to guide West Zone to a convincing seven-wicket win against South

Powered by Sathiamoorty Saravanan's 79 off just 73 balls, East Zone galloped to a nine-wicket win in pursuit of 128 against North in the Duleep Trophy match at Rajkot

Sourav Ganguly showed signs of his vintage best to help East Zone gain a slender advantage

Sourav Ganguly's glorious 117 in a do-or-die situation ensured that East Zone took the second day's honors, and a double strike by Shib Paul (2-24) before stumps left North Zone stuttering at 3 for 106, still seven runs behind

Despite bowling out South Zone for 219 after putting them in, West Zone won't be breathing easy as they were jolted by a double strike by Lakshimipathy Balaji, losing two early wickets for just four runs

Anil Kumble, VVS Laxman and Lakshmipathy Balaji have got the chop, but the changes fail to address the real problems confronting India's limited-overs cricket.

Anil Kumble, VVS Laxman and Zaheer Khan have been dropped from the Indian one-day squad for the tri-series in Zimbabwe, beginning later this month

Sixteen Indian pace bowlers, picked as part of the 36 probables, gathered in Bangalore on June 27 for a week-long pre-season physical fitness and conditioning camp

India might be well placed in this Test match - as one would expect in a home series - but that does not mean that everything went swimmingly well

Daniel Vettori's dogged innings of 60, off 129 balls, ensured that New Zealand sailed well past the follow-on target

Marks out of ten for India

Having been thwarted by the obduracy of Abdul Razzaq and the cavalier defiance of Kamran Akmal on the final day at Mohali, India ran into the proverbial brick wall here in the shape of the Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch

It is not known whether Lakshmipathy Balaji's world-famous smile disappeared when he was out of the Indian team with a potentially career-ending injury

India's paceman, Lakshmipathy Balaji, has had the gloss taken off his outstanding performance in the first Test at Mohali, after he was fined 30% of his match fee for excessive appealing