Melbourne: Australia set India a 340-run target in the fourth Test after being bowled out for 234 on the final day here on Monday. India’s star pacer Jasprit Bumrah (5/57) expectedly led the show with a five-wicket haul, aided well by Mohammed Siraj (3/70) and Ravindra Jadeja (1/33). Bumrah had entered record books by completing…
Dubai: Indian pacer Arshdeep Singh has been nominated for the ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year award following a stellar season in which he emerged as the joint-highest wicket-taker and played a pivotal role in India’s T20 World Cup triumph. The 25-year-old will compete for the prestigious honour alongside Pakistan’s Babar Azam, Australia’s Travis…
New York: Grandmaster Koneru Humpy capped a wonderful year for Indian chess, defeating Irene Sukandar of Indonesia to emerge the FIDE Women’s World Rapid Chess champion here on Sunday. Humpy had won the event back in 2019 at Georgia and the Indian No. 1 is only the second player after China’s Ju Wenjun to clinch…
Melbourne: Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland frustrated the Indian bowlers in the final session of Day 4 of the fourth Test at Melbourne. The three players together batted for more than 200 balls and scored 91 runs. Australian tail-wagging put the hosts in the driver’s seat yet again in this match as they…
Melbourne: Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah on Sunday became the second fastest Indian along with Ravindra Jadeja to complete 200 Test wickets and the first bowler ever to reach that milestone with a sub-20 average during the fourth day’s play of the fourth Test against Australia here. Bumrah dismissed Travis Head (1) for his 200th victim…
Melbourne: Jasprit Bumrah (4/30) continued to lead India’s fightback but Marnus Labuschagne’s unbeaten 65 helped Australia, who were 135/6 at tea, extended their overall lead to 240 on Day Four of the fourth Test here on Sunday. Bumrah completed 200 dismissals in Test cricket when he removed Travis Head (1) and soon accounted for Mitchell…
Melbourne: India were bowled out for 369 in their first innings with Nitish Kumar Reddy scoring 114 as Australia took a 105-run lead in the fourth Test here on Sunday. Reddy made his runs off 189 balls with 11 fours and one six and was the last wicket to fall, caught by Mitchell Starc off…
Melbourne: Nitish Reddy loves his tattoos like most 21-year-olds do, and one on his ankle is a picture of ‘Achilles’ Heel’. He considers it a reminder of all the difficulties that his family has endured in the last 10 years to power his cricketing dream. For Reddy, becoming a cricketer was both a choice and…
Melbourne: The legendary Sunil Gavaskar on Saturday lashed out at Rishabh Pant for his “stupid” shot in crunch situation but praised young Nitish Kumar Reddy to the skies for conjuring up “one of the greatest Test knocks” on the third day of the Boxing Day match. With India desperately looking for a big partnership in…
Melbourne: Young Nitish Reddy scored a memorable maiden international hundred batting at number eight and lifted a faltering India to 358 for nine at stumps on the third day of the fourth Test against Australia here on Saturday. Walking in at the fall of the team’s sixth wicket with just 191 on the board in…
