Shaun Pollock
Mar 16 2009, Sreelata Yellamrazu

by Siddharth Raman

The new outfits for the Indian ODI team do not seem to have any affect on their performance in the fifty over format of the game. They repeated the same trend they followed in Sri Lanka – steamroll the home team until the...

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