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Pujara is the only batter to be left out for the upcoming Test series against West Indies, from the core group that featured in that match. With the new WTC cycle beginning with the the two-Test tour of the Caribbean in July, the selection panel, led for now by SS Das, have picked uncapped Yashasvi

Pujara had started his county season in April with a century against Durham and followed it with hundreds against Gloucestershire and Worcestershire as well. He was also the Sussex captain in the six games he played, where he scored 545 runs at an average of 68.12. He will also feature in the Royal London Cup,

Sanju Samson has earned a recall to India’s ODI squad for the three-match series in the Caribbean in July. With KL Rahul still in rehab for a thigh injury and Rishabh Pant in recovery after surviving a car crash in December, Samson is one of two wicketkeepers in the 17-member squad alongside Ishan Kishan. Ruturaj

Is India’s ODI top six loaded with too many right-handers at the moment? Former head coach Ravi Shastri seems to think so and would like to see at least two left-handers in India’s top six for the ODI World Cup later this year. “You need to strike the right balance. Do you think a left-hander

On Friday afternoon, when news of his selection in the India Test squad for the tour of the West Indies came in, there was emotion and elation in equal measure for Yashasvi Jaiswal. “My father started crying. I have not yet met my mother [since the announcement], I am going to see her in some

Ajinkya Rahane, who was India’s highest scorer at The Oval, has kept his place after making a comeback following a 15-month absence from the Test team. He has also been named vice-captain. The rest of the squad, led by Rohit Sharma, includes most of the players selected for the WTC final. Jaiswal had made the

Pakistan’s foreign office has confirmed it is evaluating all aspects of Pakistan’s participation in the upcoming ODI World Cup in India. This is the first public indication from the Pakistan government about taking up an issue that has been pending for a while and has even resulted in a delay in the ICC announcing the

The spin duo of Shreyanka Patil and Mannat Kashyap starred with the ball after a sedate batting effort to guide the India A team to the Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup title with a 31-run win over Bangladesh A in the final in Mong Kok. Electing to bat, India A first posted a modest 127

MS Dhoni didn’t consider missing a single IPL game this season, even though it meant playing with a heavily strapped left knee in a cast. The former India captain, who led Chennai Super Kings to a fifth IPL crown, has since undergone surgery in Mumbai earlier this month and is “comfortable, happy and recovering.” “We

The rest of the panel, comprising Ranadeb Bose (East Zone), Harvinder Singh Sodhi (North), Pathik Patel (West) and Krishen Mohan (Central) remains the same. The first task for Naidu’s panel will be to identify a pool of players and prepare them in the run-up to the Under-19 World Cup to be held in Sri Lanka

Pujara, meanwhile, had started his county season in April with a century against Durham and followed it with hundreds against Gloucestershire and Worcestershire as well. He was also the Sussex captain in the six games he played, where he scored 545 runs at an average of 68.12. He will also feature in the Royal London

With East Zone taking on Central Zone in the first quarter-final at Alur in Bengaluru, the 24-year-old had the opportunity to play one game with the red ball before the Indian team’s departure for the Caribbean. The one-off game would have given Kishan a chance to push his case for selection in the Test team,

BCCI’s season-opening 2023 Duleep Trophy, the inter-zonal first-class competition, is set to be hosted across multiple venues in Bengaluru from June 28 to July 16. Six teams across zones – North, South, East, West, Central and North-East – will participate in the tournament. The winners of Central Zone vs East Zone and North-East Zone vs

Pant is believed to be largely pain-free, and while skill work is still “quite some time away”, he is currently increasing his lower-body and upper-body mobility exercises under the guidance of physio S Rajnikanth, who has previously worked with several India age-group teams and has also been part of the Delhi Capitals support staff. Rajnikanth

Having been left out of India’s XI for the WTC final against Australia despite being the No. 1 Test bowler in the world, R Ashwin looks at it as a “stumbling block” in his career and not a “setback”. Ashwin’s omission by India, who chose to play four quick bowlers and a spinner in Ravindra

The dates and venues for the 2023 Asia Cup have finally been officially confirmed, with the tournament set to take place in Pakistan and Sri Lanka between August 31 and September 17. A detailed schedule, however, has not yet been released. The tournament was originally meant to be held entirely in Pakistan but a hybrid

India head coach Rahul Dravid was point-blank in his assessment that the 469 they conceded after electing to bowl on a “green wicket” put India on the back foot. It meant playing catch up for the rest of the WTC final at The Oval. “It wasn’t a 469 wicket,” Dravid told Star Sports, after Australia

Rohit Sharma would’ve liked “20-25 days to prepare” for the World Test Championship (WTC) final, but Ravi Shastri, the former India coach, was more pragmatic about the ground reality, putting the onus on the players instead, saying make a “choice” between missing parts of the IPL and preparing for a game of this magnitude. “See,

Shubman Gill has been fined 15 percent of his match fee for criticising the TV umpire’s decision in the World Test Championship final against Australia. India, meanwhile, have been fined their entire match fee for maintaining a slow over-rate while Australia have been docked 80% of fees for the same reason. Gill was on 18

After a second successive loss in the World Test Championship (WTC) final, India captain Rohit Sharma has said future finals should be played outside England, and not necessarily be scheduled for June. Asked whether a WTC final will always be trickier to handle because it takes place after the IPL, Rohit said it didn’t have

Both in 2021 and 2023, India went into the final day of the World Test Championship final with hope of crossing the winning line. On both occasions they faltered as their batting succumbed to incisive spells of fast bowling, and could last barely more than a session. In the rain-hit 2021 final, played in front

It was a spectacular effort from the 6’7″ Green once again. He had taken a high one-handed blinder with his right hand in India’s first innings to dismiss Ajinkya Rahane, and here he had to dive low to his left and pluck the ball milliseconds before it hit the turf. Replays though suggested it was

India 151 for 5 (Jadeja 48, Boland 1-29, Lyon 1-4) trail Australia 469 (Head 163, Smith 121, Siraj 4-108) by 318 runs Australia’s bowlers showed India just where they had gone wrong on day one, their quicks settling into the perfect length on a still helpful Oval pitch as their side took control of the

The ICC intends to publish a full schedule for the men’s 2023 ODI World Cup “as soon as we possibly can,” according to their chief executive, Geoff Allardice. The tournament hosted by India is expected to start in four months’ time, with venues and fixtures still unconfirmed. The schedule for the 2019 ODI World Cup

Did India fall into the trap of picking an attack that works only for the first innings at the WTC final? Ricky Ponting, the former Australia captain, certainly thinks so. Ponting said on television commentary that the dryness underneath the surface, which had more than just a sprinkling of live grass, would have brought him

India will take a decision on R Ashwin‘s selection on the morning of the World Test Championship final against Australia once they have assessed conditions as they stand. While some rain is forecast from Saturday (fourth day) during the game, there has also been considerable interest in the nature of The Oval surface for the

Yash Dayal, the Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat Titans fast bowler, has distanced himself* from a social-media post containing an Islamophobic cartoon, saying both that post and a subsequent apology “weren’t done by me”. The original Instagram post was removed, but not before screenshots were shared and debated widely on social-media. Not long after, the handle

“The hype not being there might be a good thing.” With that comment, India head coach Rahul Dravid ended his media conference on Monday. The relative absence of the hype, Dravid felt, could be an advantage for India as they get ready to contest their second World Test Championship final, starting on Wednesday, against Australia.

Rarely before has a group of players faced such a short turnaround from an IPL straight into a Test match in England but that is the challenge facing players from both India and Australia ahead of the World Test Championship final at the Oval with former Australia all-format allrounder Shane Watson describing the transition period

Two spinners and three fast bowlers? Or one spinner and four fast men including Shardul Thakur as bowling allrounder? Who should be wicketkeeper – the specialist KS Bharat or the X-factor player Ishan Kishan? These are among the key questions that have confronted India since they announced their squad for the WTC final. If you