KOCHI: Indians rolled over the West Indies in the Test series. And it is easy for the team to get complacent when they gear up to face the same opposition in the following ODI series.

CHENNAI: When you trail by a goal, you go on the offensive to equalise. But if you trail by two goals in the dying minutes, you hope for a miracle. Destiny is no more in your hands but an opponent's blunder can still give you a new life.

MUMBAI: Barely four days after a legendary Mumbai cricketer retired, Prithvi Shaw, created a sensation by plundering a world record 546 for Rizvi Springfield against St Francis D'Assissi in the elite division of the Harris Shield tournament for senior schoolboys.

JAIPUR: Jacques Kallis has been among Sachin Tendulkar's biggest competitors for more than a decade, yet they are good friends. The South Africa all-rounder, who is seven short of Sachin's 51 Test centuries, shares his feelings on Sachin's retirement and his personal targets with TOI.

BRISBANE (Australia): Michael Clarke is giving nothing away on the eve of the Ashes. Not his starting XI, not comparisons between this and the previous series, not praise nor predictions, not even observations on England.

KOCHI: 3,614. That's the mind boggling number of runs scored by the batsmen of both India and Australia in the last series.

KOLKATA: Schoolboy stuff by a rag-tag West Indies outfit handed India a belated Diwali gift at the Eden Gardens on Friday, but with Dhoni and Co. wrapping up the first Test inside three days, Sachin Tendulkar's penultimate international appearance was cut short by two days.

KOLKATA: The euphoria over India's crushing victory over the West Indies on Friday was tinged with melancholy. Day Three of Sachin Tendulkar's final Test at the Eden Gardens suddenly turned out to be his last day on the hallowed turf.

The world trains its attention on the most-anticipated World Championship title match for decades - the first of the 12 games begins on Saturday -- somewhere, between the 350-odd vantage seats at the venue and millions others following on the internet worldwide, this is the not-sosecret sentiment doing the rounds.

NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin hit superb centuries while Shane Shillingford took six wickets as the West Indies bowled out India for 453 runs in their first innings at the stroke of lunch on the third day of the first Test at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday.