Misbah, Akmal lift Pakistan There is something about Eden Gardens that inspires the players to come up with brilliant performances. On a bright Sunday, it was the turn of Kamran Akmal and Misbah-ul-Haq to come up with masterpieces.
Indians can force win Mishab-ul-Haq and Kamran Akmal's fighting centuries have made sure the Kolkata Test will not be one-way traffic, but I still fancy an Indian victory.
OFF-SPINNER SHOWERS PRAISE ON MISBAH, AKMAL
We're still in driver's seat: Harbhajan Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh said here on Thursday that India will have to pick up the remaining four wickets on the fourth morning to assert their supremacy in the second Test.
Akmal says he got out at the wrong time
'Very satisfying knock' After scoring a gritty hundred against India on the third day of the second Test here on Sunday, Kamran Akmal termed the knock as a satisfying one.
CRICKET / Karnataka battling at 118 for three on second day of Ranji Trophy tie
Rajasthan make crucial inroads It was almost as if Sudhindra Shinde felt that one rouge ball and one poor decision combined hadn't done enough damage.
Was the West Bengal government right in nudging controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen into leaving Kolkata? Should the Centre extend political asylum or Indian citizenship to her as she says she can’t go back to Dhaka?
Deccan Herald had invited its readers to send their opinions. Most readers opine that persuading Taslima Nasreen to leave the state was an extreme move and that granting asylum is humane although extending citizenship to her is debatable. A few others insist that she must now return home to Dhaka as her views have hurt the sentiments of Muslims.
