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Suryakumar Yadav, meanwhile, jumped a whopping 44 spots to achieve his career-best No. 5 ranking in T20Is following his century against England in the third T20I. Suryakumar, who also achieved a career-high rating of 732, is now India’s highest-ranked T20I batter. Having made his T20I debut only last year, Suryakumar has quickly become an important

Toss India chose to bowl vs England Rohit Sharma chose to bowl in the first ODI at The Kia Oval, as England welcomed back their Test-match big guns of Joe Root, Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow, just as India prepared to make do without their own grandest name. Virat Kohli will sit out this match

Jos Buttler implored his England team to be “braver” after “timid” performances with the bat in their first two T20 internationals against India, Matthew Mott has revealed. England were bowled out for 148 and 121 in Buttler’s first two matches as their full-time limited-overs captain on Thursday and Saturday, losing by 50 and 49 runs

Umesh Yadav has begun a maiden stint in county cricket in England, with Middlesex signing him for the remainder of the 2022 season in place of Shaheen Shah Afridi. The Pakistan fast bowler returned home to prepare for the national team’s two-Test tour of Sri Lanka, which is already underway with a warm-up fixture in

Offspinning allrounder Sneh Rana has made a comeback to the national side, finding a place in India’s 15-member squad for the Commonwealth Games starting July 29 in Birmingham. Rana had been left out of the white-ball tour of Sri Lanka that concluded last week. In another surprise move, the selectors included Taniya Bhatia as one

Virat Kohli played nine balls in two innings in this T20I series against England. He attempted boundaries off five of them. Two of them resulted in vintage Kohli boundaries – a four over wide mid-on and a six straight down the ground, but the other three got him out twice. On the evidence of Kohli’s

Toss England chose to bat vs India England captain Jos Buttler opted to bat for a change and made two changes in an attempt to avoid a series whitewash against India. It was the first time since September 2016 that England had chosen to bat in a T20I; they had opted to bowl on each

India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha has signed as player-cum-mentor of domestic team Tripura for the 2022-23 domestic season, thereby officially ending a first-class stint of almost 15 years with Bengal. Saha signed on the dotted lines in Agartala on Friday, and is likely to be named captain. Saha had been in talks with Tripura for over

It’s a weird old summer in England where the red Dukes Test ball is swinging less and going soft quickly and the white Kookaburra is not only swinging, it is swinging for longer than usual. It is quaint that such an integral part of the contest is not homogenised but also strange that such little

Toss England chose to bowl vs India Jos Buttler won the toss and opted to bowl in the second T20I at Edgbaston as England look to stay alive in the three-match series. India wanted to bat first anyway, their captain Rohit Sharma said. The hosts made two changes, bringing in David Willey and handing a

Play in-form players, don’t go by reputation only, and prepare to make tough calls even if it happens to be someone of the stature of Virat Kohli: this is essentially Kapil Dev’s message to India’s selectors as they build towards this year’s T20 World Cup in Australia. “Play in-form players when you have loads of

Pity the poor put-upon ground staff at Edgbaston. Barely four days have elapsed since they were watering down the wicket at the end of England’s thrilling chase in the long-delayed fifth Test – and here we are again, back to Brum as the England-India one-day roadshow gathers pace. What’s more, the change of livery around

Shikhar Dhawan has been given another chance to lead India’s ODI side, this time on the tour of the Caribbean later this month, with Ravindra Jadeja serving as his deputy in the 16-man squad. Designated captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant and Mohammed Shami have all been rested for the

Saturday’s T20I between England and India at Edgbaston will be monitored by “undercover football crowd-style spotters”, after Warwickshire unveiled a series of new measures to combat the instances of racist abuse that marred last week’s delayed fifth Test between the same teams. England won the Test and squared the series in thrilling style, chasing down

Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl vs India Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bowl in the third ODI against India in Pallekele. India announced an unchanged XI for this final ODI. Sri Lanka made one change, with legspinner Rashmi Silva replacing medium pacer Achini Kulasuriya. India lead the series 2-0 after comprehensively

Rohit Sharma found India’s defeat in the Edgbaston Test “very hard to watch from the sidelines”, but is now excited at the prospect of merely “standing back on my feet nice and healthy” after a brush with Covid-19. Rohit, the only addition to India’s squad that toured Ireland, will lead the side in the T20I

A mere two days after England Bazball’d their way to a target of 378 – their highest successful chase in Test cricket, at a run rate of almost five – they are getting ready to push the boundaries even further, this time in T20I cricket. After Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes ushered in the new

It started with a match-haul of nine wickets at Trent Bridge over a year ago and ended with a world record with the bat at Edgbaston. In between, there was a workhorse-like spell at Lord’s and magic at The Oval – all of which contributed to his 23 wickets, the most by an Indian bowler

India have been docked two World Test Championship (WTC) points for maintaining a slow over-rate in the Edgbaston Test, which they lost by seven wickets to England for the series to end at 2-2. As a result of the penalty, India currently have 52.08 percentage points, a shade lower than Pakistan’s 52.38, and are down

Rahul Dravid, India’s head coach, pointed to potential issues with fitness and sustained intensity among the bowlers in the aftermath of their failure to defend a target of 378 against England in the fifth Test. England chased down their highest fourth-innings target at Edgbaston with seven wickets in hand half an hour before lunch on

England 284 and 259 for 3 (Root 76*, Bairstow 72*) need another 119 runs to beat India 416 and 245 (Pujara 66, Pant 57, Stokes 4-33) England’s dream run in fourth-innings chases this summer continued as they got to 259 for 3 in pursuit of 378, a record chase for them if it comes off.

Warwickshire and the ECB are investigating reports of racist abuse on the fourth day of the rescheduled fifth men’s Test between England and India at Edgbaston which emerged on social media on Monday night. Several supporters made claims on Twitter that they had suffered racist abuse from other fans during the fourth day, which were

India women opt to bowl v Sri Lanka women Harmanpreet Kaur, the India captain, won the toss and elected to field in the 2nd ODI at Pallekele International Stadium. Coming into the game having won the opening ODI by four wickets, India’s aim will be to add to their tally of two points on the

India’s white-ball captain Harmanpreet Kaur has re-signed with Melbourne Renegades for a second season with them, in the 2022-23 WBBL. Harmanpreet was the Player of the Tournament in the last WBBL season for her all-round show of 406 runs and 15 wickets, leading both batting and bowling charts for Renegades. “I’m excited to be coming

How did India’s bowlers manage to avoid the blistering assault suffered by New Zealand during England’s 3-0 whitewash earlier this month? Thanks to their battery of 140kph/87mph-plus seamers, as well as a return to the same bowling plans that had delivered a 2-1 series lead in the first four Tests of the Pataudi Trophy last

India 151 for 3 (Hooda 59, Suryakumar 36*) beat Derbyshire 150 for 8 (Madsen 28, Cartwright 27, Arshdeep 2-29, Umran 2-31) by seven wickets Arshdeep Singh and Umran Malik enjoyed bowling time, Deepak Hooda continued his rich run of form, Suryakumar Yadav, returning from injury, had time in the middle and Sanju Samson carried on

India had the best of a stop-start day, adding 78 with their last three standing wickets and then taking four England wickets by the time they scored 78. On a day that only 39 overs were possible because of rain, India placed one hand firmly on the Pataudi Trophy, to secure which they needed merely

You’d think an allrounder who averages over 35 with the bat and under 25 with the ball (and takes four wickets per Test) across 60 Tests might not need the validation of a century to boost his confidence. You’d think Ravindra Jadeja might not need that boost of confidence. You’d be wrong. Jadeja’s first Test

Wriddhiman Saha, the India wicketkeeper, has parted ways with Bengal, the team he represented in domestic cricket, after a public fallout with a state association official. He is now a free agent, having obtained an NOC from the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). “Mr Wriddhiman Saha came to CAB and in an application to President

Domestic contracts, one of the first promises of BCCI president Sourav Ganguly upon taking over in November 2019, could soon become a reality for at least Mumbai’s cricketers. A proposal made by Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president Vijay Patil, in the wake of Mumbai’s excellent showing in the 2021-22 domestic season, has been approved, in