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Piloo Reporter, who was part of the first pair of neutral umpires to stand in international cricket, died in Mumbai on Sunday. Reporter, who was 84, was suffering from cerebral contusions, and was bedridden for a long time. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. Overall, Reporter officiated in 14 Tests and 22

Big picture: Rain in the air once again Rain ruined the India-Pakistan game, the first in ODI cricket between the two teams since the 2019 World Cup, on Saturday in Pallekele. A similar rain threat hangs over the India-Nepal game at the same venue on Monday, with chances of precipitation up to 80%. If Monday’s

Ravi Shastri believes India have the upper hand in Saturday’s Asia Cup game against Pakistan in Pallekele, but only just. Speaking to ESPNcricinfo on the eve of the fixture, Shastri said that Pakistan were a much improved side, and have “narrowed the gap” with India, but the strength of India’s line-up and an experienced captain

Jayant Yadav, the India offspinner, has joined Middlesex on a short-term deal for the last four LV= Insurance County Championship matches of the season. Yadav, 33, has taken 16 wickets at 29.06 in six Test matches for his country, the most recent of which came against Sri Lanka in March 2022. His best figures, 4

Prithvi Shaw will return to Northamptonshire next summer after signing for the second half of the season. The India international is expected to be available to play in the County Championship and One-Day Cup. Shaw scored 429 runs in four innings for Northants – including a record-breaking 244 off 153 balls against Somerset – earlier

Surrey have signed Sai Sudharsan, the India A batter, for their LV= Insurance County Championship run in. Surrey are currently top of Division One, leading their closest challengers, Essex, by 17 points. With Tom Latham now on international duty after a short mid-season spell, Ollie Pope out injured, and Will Jacks and Sam Curran currently

Viacom18 has bagged the media rights – both digital and television – to Indian cricket globally for INR 5963 crore approximately (USD 720.60 million approx.) for the period 2023-27. These rights extend to all the cricket the BCCI runs in the country, international and domestic, apart from the IPL. Up against two competitors, Disney Star*

Shorey, the 31-year-old top-order batter, played 42 games for Delhi in a 52-match first-class career that has brought him 3841 runs at an average of 54.87, including 11 hundreds. He also has 1945 List A runs at 36.01, and 866 T20 runs at a strike rate of 116.39. He was part of the Chennai Super

KL Rahul, India’s first-choice wicketkeeper-batter for the Asia Cup, will not be available for the first two matches at the tournament, against Pakistan and Nepal, head coach Rahul Dravid confirmed at a press conference prior to the start of the tournament. Dravid said Rahul has been “progressing really well”, but won’t be ready in time

“Experimentation.” It’s a word Rahul Dravid has perhaps read and heard so much that he wasn’t quite in the mood to let it go outside off one more time. Dravid was as measured as he could be, hearing out the question in full, before neatly leaning into his answer that formed the crux of his

India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has opted out of the WBBL for the second year in a row, as she could play in the upcoming domestic season. She had skipped the 2022-23 WBBL as well to manage her workload and focus on her India commitments during a busy international year. This time, Mandhana did not put

Rohit Sharma wants to “shut out” the external pressure and the weight of expectation that come with captaining the host nation in a World Cup. When the tournament last came to India in 2011, Rohit endured a “heartbreak” as he didn’t make the final squad of 15. Twelve years on, it is possible this could

Shreyas Iyer, who is currently part of a six-day conditioning camp in Bengaluru for India’s Asia Cup-bound squad, admits to “panicking” about his back injury and that he “never imagined” he would recover so fast. Iyer’s injury flared up after the fourth Border-Gavaskar Test against Australia in March. Initially, he was understood to have been

Karun Nair and Shreyas Gopal, two key members of Karnataka’s double-treble winning sides, have obtained NOCs from the KSCA to play for Vidarbha and Kerala, respectively, in the upcoming domestic season. Nair, the former Karnataka captain, scored 11 hundred and 16 fifties in first-class cricket for the state, with a best of 328 in the

Pakistan, the hosts of the tournament, have been allotted just four of the 13 games after the BCCI expressed its inability to tour the country. This led to several flashpoints before a compromise was reached with the Asian Cricket Council, chaired by Jay Shah, who is also BCCI secretary, to sign off on a hybrid

Who should be India’s No. 4 at the World Cup? If AB de Villiers were to make that call, it’d be his former Royal Challengers Bangalore team-mate Virat Kohli. De Villiers didn’t explain the rationale behind his suggestion, but did mention Kohli’s ability to “put the innings together and play any kind of role in

India’s Asia-Cup-bound players have begun arriving in Bengaluru for a six-day conditioning camp that begins on Thursday at the Karnataka State Cricket Association’s (KSCA) Three Ovals campus in Alur. While fitness parameters of players, particularly those who returned from the Caribbean earlier this month, will be a key focus area, the camp also aims to

The captains of the two teams, Paul Stirling and Jasprit Bumrah, shook hands in the middle to draw the curtain on the three-match series. Bumrah was named Player of the Series for his four wickets in the two completed games, at an average of 9.75 and an economy of just 4.87, comfortably the best across

Sourav Ganguly feels that India have more than enough options for the much-discussed No. 4 position in ODIs in the lead up to the Asia Cup and World Cup, naming Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul as contenders. He also stressed that there is “no hard-and-fast rule” about who should bat at what position,

Cheteshwar Pujara believes he still has a lot to offer India’s Test side, even though he confesses that being dropped has sometimes left him frustrated, battling self-doubt and nursing a bruised ego. The veteran of 103 Test caps last represented India at the World Test Championship final in June, and was not picked for the

KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer have been selected in India’s ODI squad for the Asia Cup after recovering in time from a thigh and back injury respectively. The 17-man Asia Cup squad announced by India’s chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar in Delhi on Monday also includes rookie left-hander Tilak Varma, who hasn’t made his ODI

Big Picture – Will Bumrah give chances to Jitesh, Shahbaz and Avesh? India have largely achieved what they wanted from this Ireland series. Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna have made excellent returns to form and fitness and have subsequently been drafted into the Asia Cup squad. Ruturaj Gaikwad has returned to the T20I set-up with

The BCCI has told the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) that it won’t be possible to make any schedule tweaks for the upcoming ODI World Cup after concerns were raised about hosting back-to-back matches. On Sunday, the HCA had alerted the Indian board that the local police was worried about providing adequate security for two matches

“We’ve seen the class of Tilak Varma. I think it’s a good strategy in terms of not just this World Cup but even potentially getting into the next World Cup as well,” Hayden said on the sidelines of the CEAT Cricket Rating Awards ceremony in Mumbai. “The great thing about India is it’s got a

Flexibility in the mind and flexibility in the middle order will be key for India to unlock their batting potential at the ODI World Cup, according to their captain Rohit Sharma. “One thing I want in this team is to make sure everyone is okay to bat anywhere,” Rohit said at a press conference to

“I will not say that I regret anything because at the end of the day as a player you want to see that fair things are happening. As a player you always have the right to express yourself and what you’re feeling,” she told The Cricket Paper on the sidelines of the Women’s Hundred, where

India 185 for 5 (Gaikwad 58, Samson 40, Rinku 38, McCarthy 2-36) beat Ireland 152 for 8 (Balbirnie 72, Bumrah 2-15, Prasidh 2-29, Bishnoi 2-37) by 33 runs Ruturaj Gaikwad scored a half-century but Rinku Singh stole the limelight on his debut with a swashbuckling innings at the death as India sealed the series by

Will KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer and Jasprit Bumrah be on the plane to Sri Lanka for the Asia Cup? We will know on Monday, August 21, when the senior men’s selection committee, chaired by Ajit Agarkar, convenes in New Delhi to pick the squad. It is understood that Rohit Sharma, the India captain, will join

India batted 41 balls with openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and Yashasvi Jaiswal consuming 39 of those before rain stopped the play. The likes of Gaikwad, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, and Sanju Samson will be keen to make noteworthy performances, with an eye on the next T20 World Cup that is less than a year away. Among

Jasprit Bumrah returned to international cricket after a year out due to injury and immediately made an impact, striking twice in his first over in the first T20I against Ireland. This is how ESPNcricinfo’s ball-by-ball commentary recorded the over. 0.1 Bumrah to Balbirnie, FOUR runsNot a good start for Bumrah, a great start for Balbirnie.