Birmingham: A call on premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah playing the second Test will be taken in the next 24 hours but India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate is pretty sure that his team will take the field with two spinners at Edgbaston. There is a growing clamour to include wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav in the…
Nottingham: Smriti Mandhana etched her name in the history books by scoring her maiden T20I century, becoming the first Indian cricketer to register a hundred in all three formats of international cricket. She played a blistering knock and reached the milestone in just 51 balls. Opening the innings, Mandhana dominated the English bowling attack with a…
Cape Town:, South Africa, the new Test champions, face neighbours Zimbabwe in a two-match Test series at the latter’s home. The two teams are playing a Test match for the first time after 2017, while the Proteas have travelled across the border after 11 years for a match. The Proteas recently won the World Test…
Leeds (England): The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced India’s squad for the second Test against India at Edgbaston. Star pacer Jofra Archer has made his return to the squad after a long wait. Notably, Archer played his last Test match against India in Ahmedabad in 2021. Since then, Archer has suffered multiple injuries and…
Leeds: India captain Shubman Gill admitted the lower-order collapse in both innings did cost them dearly during the five-wicket defeat against England in the opening Test here on Tuesday. Despite vice-captain Rishabh Pant scoring centuries in each innings of the opening Tests and other key batters in openers KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Gill himself…
New Delhi: Former India left-arm spinner Dilip Doshi died at the age of 77 due to cardiac arrest in London on Monday. Doshi played 33 Tests and 15 ODIs for India from 1979 to 1983. He picked 114 wickets in Tests and 22 scalps in the limited-overs format. Doshi is survived by his wife Kalindi,…
Leeds: India opener KL Rahul has asserted that the visitors will give themselves the “best chance” to dismiss the England batting lineup and take a 1-0 lead in the series when the final day’s play in the first Test resumes here on Tuesday. The Headingley Test was interestingly poised on Monday with India setting the…
Leeds: KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant struck fine centuries before India were all out for 364 in their second innings on the fourth day of the first Test against England here on Monday. England, requiring 371 to win the series opener, were 21 without loss at stumps, needing another 350 runs to take the lead…
Leeds: The Indian batters continued their stellar run in the first Test match against England in Leeds with KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant slamming scintillating centuries in the second innings. Rahul and Pant led the visitors’ charge on Day 4 of the Test with India looking to hand a mountainous target to the hosts. Pant created…
New Delhi: K L Rahul shattered records of legendary players like Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid, among others, as he played a masterful knock in the second innings of the first Test match against England in Leeds. Rahul hit a brilliant hundred in the second innings in challenging conditions at Leeds on Day 4 as…
