Tag: Team India

The Indian captain became the first Indian player, third overall, to hit 50 or more ODI sixes in a calendar year.

With his brilliant performance, Shami became the only Indian bowler to have picked up two 5-wicket hauls in the history of cricket World Cups.

As per former New Zealand star batsman Ross Taylor, the Men in Blue are a different beast at home and they are firm favourites to win the World Cup.

Dravid ‘respectfully disagreed’ with the world body, saying an ODI match is not just about batters and their pyrotechnics.

The aggressive right-handed opener revealed that it would have been a slightly different story had No.4 Shreyas Iyer got out a little later than he did.

Former Australia cricketer Ian Healy believes that the Indian cricket team needs to save their enthusiasm.

Several fans were not convinced with India playing Thakur ahead of Shami as they feel the latter would have certainly given them another wicket-taking option.

As per the former legendry batsman, it might take just one bad game for the pressure to rise on India in front of their home crowd.

India garnered six points from three matches with an impressive Net Run Rate (NRR) of +1.821.

Rohit achieved the milestone of hitting most number of sixes (556) in international cricket, breaking explosive West Indies batter Chris Gayle’s record of 553 sixes.

As per BCCI sources, Gill will be under the supervision of a medical team and he will stay back in Chennai.

Before the match, Kohli was tied on 14 catches each with Kumble. While Kumble needed 18 matches to hit the mark, Kohli broke his record in 26 matches.

Kohli will take part in his fourth World Cup and Panesar believes that the star batsman would reserve his best for the knockout phase.

Ahead of India’s campaign opener against Australia, skipper Rohit Sharma suggested that being a cricketer in India is not easy, especially with the big weight of fans’ expectations.

As per Raina, like Dhoni, SKY (As Suryakumar Yadav is popularly known) has the potential to make a substantial impact in the death overs.