Tag: Indian Cricket

New Delhi: The Indian senior selection committee on Thursday shortlisted candidates for various coaching positions with Vikram Rathour, Bharat Arun and R. Sridhar on priority list for the role of the team’s support staff. Rahul Johri, BCCI CEO, has been asked to go ahead with completion of process after checking on the conflict of interest […]

Mumbai: Former captain Sourav Ganguly has said that Team India will have to get used to the fact that Mahendra Singh Dhoni will not be around for too long. Dhoni’s floundering strike rate and his inability to finish games, something he was renowned for in his prime, came into sharp focus during India’s recent World […]

Dharamsala: Former South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener feels that a phenomenal talent like Rishabh Pant will do well to learn from others’ mistakes rather than make his own in a bid to become more consistent for India in near future. An average of 22.90 in ODIs and 21.57 in T20s doesn’t do justice to the […]

New Delhi: Indian skipper Virat Kohli who was honoured with a stand at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in the national capital, has expressed gratitude to the DDCA and the BCCI and hoped it will serve as an inspiration to budding cricketers. “Thank you DDCA and BCCI for bestowing this honour upon me. The pavilion will […]

Dharamsala: India captain Virat Kohli has learnt “his lesson” the hard way after an innocuous tweet of his sparked rumours of Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s international retirement in a social media frenzy. On Thursday, Kohli had tweeted a picture of him sitting on his hunches after beating Australia in a league game of the 2016 World […]

New Delhi: Diwali and cricket fever has over the years gone hand in hand in Indian cricket. Be it Mahendra Singh Dhoni making his presence felt with an unbeaten 183 against Sri Lanka in 2005 or Amit Mishra bamboozling the Kiwis with his leg-spin in 2016, Team India have had some of its biggest blockbusters […]

Chandigarh: Former India captain Kapil Dev was announced as the first Chancellor of Haryanas Sports University in Rai town of Sonepat district on Saturday. His appointment was announced by state Youth and Sports Minister Anil Vij in a tweet. The Sports University of Haryana is the third such university in India after Swarnim Gujarat Sports […]

New Delhi: India skipper Virat Kohli on Sunday said that players getting a chance in the team before the ICC World T20, scheduled to be held next year, will have to prove themselves in a short span of time as the team management is trying to figure out a perfect balance before the mega event. […]

New Delhi: Ever since making his Test debut in Cape Town in January 2018, Jasprit Bumrah has improved by leaps and bounds and has become an integral part of the Indian team across all formats, especially Test cricket. Bumrah has featured in 12 Test matches so far, in which he has scalped 62 wickets at […]

New Delhi: Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly feels Lokesh Rahul will be kept on his toes by Shreyas Iyer and Manish Pandey for the no. 4 slot in ODIs, a position which has been debated a lot by the team management over the last couple of years. Iyer was preferred over Rahul in the three […]

Bengaluru: After a commanding performance in Mohali, Team India will aim to seal the three-match series when they enter the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium for the third and final T20I against South Africa on Sunday. With a washout in the first game in Dharamsala, both the teams were looking to take the upper hand and take an […]

Bengaluru: Senior opener Shikhar Dhawan on Saturday expressed optimism that the team management will give the youngsters a fair run to establish themselves going into next year’s World T20 in Australia. Captain Virat Kohli recently made it clear that the youngsters will have to prove themselves in the “four or five” opportunities they get. “(While) […]

New Delhi: In what is being seen by the BCCI office bearers and state body officials, as a last ditch effort, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) have filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking certain clarifications to the court’s order on holding elections in the state associations of the board. The SC had on […]

Kolkata: Unfazed by all the talk surrounding his absence from the cricket pitch, former India captain M.S. Dhoni on Tuesday shared a fun video of gully cricket on social media, reminiscing his school days. On Instagram, Dhoni shared a video of gully cricket where the batsman is not ready to accept that he is out […]

New Delhi: The much debated ‘Conflict of Interest’ of National Cricket Academy (NCA) head Rahul Dravid and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) employee Mayank Parikh will be taken up by Ethics Officer D.K. Jain on Thursday as the duo depose before him. Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association life member Sanjeev Gupta had […]