Tag: Indian Cricket

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 […]

New Delhi: There seems to be a difference in opinion among former cricketers on whether M.S. Dhoni should continue playing or hang his boots. Ever since the culmination of the 50-overs World Cup in England and Wales, speculations have been rife that Dhoni might have played his last game for the country. While he has […]

New Delhi: India take on South Africa in their first Test series at home since they hosted the West Indies in October 2018. The series starts on October 2, with the first Test to be played in Visakhapatnam. Virat Kohli’s side are the top ranked team in the Test rankings and started their campaign in […]

New Delhi: Former India skipper Kapil Dev has resigned from his post as the head of the three-member ad-hoc Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC). Speaking to IANS, sources in the know of developments said that Kapil has resigned from the position. “Yes, he has sent his resignation from the position of CAC chief.” “There should have […]

Visakhapatnam: Mayank Agarwal on Thursday became the fourth Indian batsman to convert his maiden century into a double hundred. Playing his fifth Test match, Mayank played a superb knock of 215 in the first innings of the first Test between India and South Africa at the ACA-VDCA Stadium. The 28-year-old is now the fourth Indian […]

Mumbai: In a dramatic turn of events, former captain Sourav Ganguly has emerged as consensus candidate to be BCCI’s new President after Brijesh Patel appeared to have grabbed the coveted post. Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah will be the new secretary while Arun Dhumal will be the new treasurer. Dhumal is the […]