Ajinkya Rahane scored his 12th Test century in the 2nd Test against Australia.© AFP Indian cricket board head Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday heaped praise on the team for their series-levelling win against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane led from the front as India beat Australia in the second Test of
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Skipper Jason Holder is one of 10 players who will miss his country’s tour of Bangladesh because of “Covid-19 related concerns or personal fears”, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced on Tuesday. Jason Holder, Kieron Pollard, Darren Bravo, Shamarh Brooks, Roston Chase, Sheldon Cottrell, Evin Lewis, Shai Hope, Shimron Hetmyer and Nicholas Pooran pulled out of
Australia captain Tim Paine pleaded guilty to the slow over-rate charge.© AFP Australia has been fined 40 per cent of their match fee and penalised four ICC World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow over-rate against India in the second Test that ended at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday. ICC Elite Panel match
Sri Lanka lost two early second innings wickets after taking a pounding from South Africa’s batsmen on the third day of the first Test at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Monday – but batting coach Grant Flower said they were effectively five or six wickets down. Former captain Faf du Plessis led the batting assault,
Virat Kohli won two top honours at the ICC awards of the decade on Monday.© AFP Virat Kohli, India captain across all formats, won two prestigious ICC awards on Monday. The ICC named Kohli as men’s ODI cricketer of the decade and the India skipper also bagged the Sir Garfield Sobers award for ICC Male
AUS vs IND: Ajinkya Rahane scored 112 runs in India’s first innings at the MCG.© AFP Batting great Sunil Gavaskar feels Ajinkya Rahane’s gritty hundred in the ongoing Boxing Day Test will go down as one of the most important centuries in the history of Indian cricket. Rahane hit his 12th century in the longest
South Africa’s batsmen scored freely against a depleted Sri Lankan bowling attack as the host nation fought back on the second day of the first Test at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Sunday. South Africa were 317 for four at the close in reply to Sri Lanka’s first innings total of 396. Dean Elgar (95)
The controversy ridden Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) found itself in a new mess after warring factions led by president Rakesh Tiwary and secretary Sanjay Kumar released separate squads for upcoming Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament, starting January 10. It is understood that BCCI brass is aware of the situation and a decision is expected in
Ajinkya Rahane brought up his 12th Test hundred on Sunday.© Twitter Virat Kohli took to Twitter to lavish praise on India’s stand-in skipper Ajinkya Rahane, who scored an unbeaten century on Day 2 of the ongoing Boxing Day Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. Rahane along with Ravindra Jadeja put India in complete control
Former captain Dinesh Chandimal said Sri Lanka had exceeded their expectations by scoring 340/6 on the first day of the first Test against South Africa in Centurion on Saturday. Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva were mainly responsible for putting the tourists in a strong position, scoring 85 and 79 respectively — but De Silva had
Dhananjaya de Silva and Dinesh Chandimal put Sri Lanka in a strong position on the first day of the first Test against South Africa in Centurion on Saturday. De Silva made 79 before retiring hurt and former captain Chandimal hit 85 as Sri Lanka reached 340 for six at the close. De Silva suffered what
A resilient India bounced back from their embarrassing first Test exploits to bundle out Australia for just 195 and take a grip on a riveting opening day of the second Test in Melbourne on Saturday. After their horror show in Adelaide last week, where they lost by eight wickets and were skittled for 36 in
Sourav Ganguly, former India captain and current president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), took to Twitter on Friday to share a video from his 100th Test that was played at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2007. Ganguly, ahead of the second Test between India and Australia, said playing at the
South African coach Mark Boucher believes his team is capable of defeating Sri Lanka in the two-Test series which starts at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Saturday. “We’re in a rebuilding phase and we’ve got some youngsters around but we’re playing in conditions that suit us better than the opposition,” said Boucher on Friday. “If
Ajinkya Rahane on Friday said he had apologised to Virat Kohli after his horrible mix-up with him led to the India captain’s game-changing run out in the first Test against Australia in Adelaide. Kohli was looking solid before the comical run out for 74 on the opening day at Adelaide Oval. Upon realising that there
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday held their 89th Annual General Meeting. After the meeting, the board’s General Body has asked its office bearers to decide the venues for T20 World Cup 2021, slated to be played in India. The T20 World Cup 2021 is slated to be held in India
Athiya Shetty’s reaction on KL Rahul’s latest Instagram post was adorable.© Instagram KL Rahul took to Instagram on Thursday to share a couple of pictures from his stay in Melbourne. In the first picture, Rahul can be seen taking a walk on the streets while in the next picture the India batsman was clicked while sitting on
Nepal spinner Sandeep Lamichhane has said he cannot describe the greatness of Virat Kohli, as there is no word that can define the Indian skipper. Lamichhane, who plays for Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League (IPL), was recently doing a question and answer session on Twitter when one of the users asked him to