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Report India left out 21-year-old top-order batter Yastika Bhatia despite her impressive recent showings Toss India chose to bat vs Pakistan In the first India vs Pakistan 50-over women’s fixture in nearly five years, and what is also the tournament openers for both teams at the 2022 ODI World Cup, India captain Mithali Raj opted

News India wicketkeeper recently claimed that he was threatened by a reporter for not responding to an interview request Indian journalist Boria Majumdar has said he will serve a legal notice for defamation on Wriddhiman Saha in connection with recent allegations made by the India wicketkeeper. Majumdar, in a video he put out on social

Report Allrounder slams 175* to set up declaration, and then joins the wicket-takers’ party to push Sri Lanka on the back foot Sri Lanka 108 for 4 (Ashwin 2-21) trail India 574 for 8 dec (Jadeja 175*, Pant 96, Ashwin 61, Vihari 58, Lakmal 2-90, Fernando 2-135, Embuldeniya 2-188) by 466 runs India’s bowlers brought

News Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Siraj and Axar Patel have all levelled up  ESPNcricinfo Ltd The annual contracts – running from October 2021 to September 2022 – were ratified by the BCCI’s Apex Council late on Wednesday. The Apex Council also finalised former India fast bowler Abey Kuruvilla as the general manager cricket development, a position

News CSA says they have to take a call between playing the T20 league or representing their country against Bangladesh South Africa will give their players a choice of whether to go to the upcoming IPL or stay in the country and play the three-ODI and two-Test series against Bangladesh, which starts on March 18.

India 357 for 6 (Pant 96, Vihari 58, Embuldeniya 2-107) vs Sri Lanka Sri Lanka managed to deny Virat Kohli even a fifty in his 100th Test. They didn’t let Hanuma Vihari convert his fifty into a hundred in his 100th first-class match. By the end of the day, though, they might have regretted getting

News New Test captain also toasts contributions of Rahane, Pujara as India prepare for a proper changing of the guard India’s Test cricket is at the precipice of a proper changing of the guard. There is a new captain, and the team is about 300 caps lighter in experience. Two new batters will have to

News “Feels surreal, never imagined I would play 100 Tests for India” Former captain Virat Kohli will be playing his 100th Test for India on Friday. Only 11 of his countrymen can ever say that. Here are excerpts from an interview he had with BCCI.tv ahead of the match: On the milestone 100th TestI honestly

News During the three-day quarantine, everyone who is part of the bubble will need to do in-room testing, with each test being 24-hours apart A three-day hard quarantine in the hotel room followed by a negative test on the fourth day will be mandatory before teams can enter the IPL bubble, according to the quarantine

News “After that I got clear ideas, those things really helped me in the last two-three games,” says India’s vice-captain, who struck a century in the warm-ups India vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur has admitted she was “going into my shell” when she was struggling with form, and that speaking to Dr Mugdha Bavare, the mental-health conditioning

News Only fully vaccinated spectators will be permitted to enter the stadiums The Maharashtra government has approved full-vaccinated spectators at 25% of stadium capacity for IPL 2022, which is set to be held in Mumbai and Pune from March 26. In an official statement issued on Wednesday, the state government said considering that the Covid-19

News ESPNcricinfo understands that Chahar, who suffered a quadricep tear against West Indies, could take several weeks to heal Chennai Super Kings, the defending champions of the IPL, have been dealt a massive blow ahead of the 2022 season, as their premier pacer Deepak Chahar is set to miss a major chunk of, if not

Ireland will play white-ball series against India, New Zealand, South Africa and Afghanistan in their 2022 home summer but their wait for a Test match will stretch past three years after the postponement of their tour to Zimbabwe. Cricket Ireland (CI) announced a near-complete fixture list for the men’s international season on Tuesday, with the

News Harmanpreet Kaur, Deepti Sharma among Indians who move up in women’s rankings New Zealand allrounder Amelia Kerr rode on her impressive performances in the recently concluded ODI series against India, climbing five places up to No. 17 among batters, while also rising four spots to sit at the same position among bowlers. The 21-year-old

News According to an ICC report, she was visibly shaken by the blow but did not feel any concussion symptoms An ICC report said Mandhana was assessed by the team doctor following the incident and was originally declared fit to continue, only to retire hurt an over and a half later after another consultation. She

News Heartbroken batter wants to stay with the team and play their final Ranji Trophy league match on March 3 Baroda batter Vishnu Solanki has decided to carry on playing the Ranji Trophy despite the heartbreaking loss of his father and his day-old daughter in a span of two weeks. On February 11, while in

News After eight innings at No. 3, Shreyas has hit 340 runs at a strike rate of 147 Look, there’s a lot of competition for places in this team, and I’d be happy just to be in the XI, but if I could choose, I’d bat No. 3. This, essentially, was the vibe of Shreyas

News Mandeep stars in Punjab’s win, Jadeja’s 11-for helps Saurashtra stay alive Mumbai came back from the brink to beat Goa to keep their Ranji Trophy hopes alive. Denied a win by Saurashtra under fading light last week, nothing less than a victory would’ve sufficed, and when they were bowled out for 168 in the

News India wicketkeeper is being monitored for symptoms of concussion India wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan underwent a precautionary CT scan, as advised by the team’s medical staff, after he copped a blow on the helmet during the second T20I in Dharamsala. He was subsequently kept under observation for concussion at a hospital in Kangra. The incident

News Mayank Agarwal has been drafted into the squad for the last two T20Is Opening batter Ruturaj Gaikwad has been ruled out of India’s ongoing T20I series against Sri Lanka because of a wrist injury, and Mayank Agarwal has replaced him in the squad for the remaining two matches. Gaikwad had been ruled out of

News Most of the Indian cricketers are expected to join their IPL teams after the second Test in a bubble-to-bubble transfer The second India vs Sri Lanka Test, a day-nighter in Bengaluru, will have crowd attendance at 50% capacity, but the first Test, in Mohali, which is also likely to be Virat Kohli‘s 100th, will

News “I definitely know my playing composition for the first couple of games and I look forward to giving game time to all the core players during the warm-ups” India’s build-up to the women’s ODI World Cup has been far from ideal, as they lost a five-match series 4-1 in New Zealand, where the marquee

Preview SL’s batting line-up could be bolstered after new squad members were added Big picture With both India and Sri Lanka missing many of their first-choice players, it was going to be a battle of bench strengths. Few countries enjoy the depth India have and that was evident during the first T20I in Lucknow. The

News Both players suffered injuries on the field during the third T20I against West Indies Deepak Chahar and Suryakumar Yadav will miss the upcoming T20I series against Sri Lanka. Both suffered injuries on the field during the third T20I series against West Indies in Kolkata. They will both now be recovering at the National Cricket

News The tournament will begin on March 26 and run until the end of May IPL 2022 will begin on March 26 and run until the end of May. The schedule was drawn up on Thursday by the IPL Governing Council, who also decided that the league phase of the tournament would be restricted to

Report In their final international before the Women’s World Cup starting next week, India managed to shake off their run of losses on New Zealand soil India 252 for 4 (Mandhana 71, Harmanpreet 63, Raj 54*, Jensen 1-29) beat New Zealand 251 for 9 (Kerr 66, Rana 2-40, Deepti 2-42, Gayakwad 2-61) by six wickets

News “We’ve already seen a lot of injuries within our squad so we have got to be careful with what we do with individuals and how we rotate them” When Virat Kohli announced his resignation as India’s Test captain, the most straightforward choice was to hand over all three formats to Rohit Sharma. Rohit’s place

Big picture Look, let’s be real. It’s been a while since Sri Lanka were on India’s level in limited-overs cricket. In the last T20I series between these teams, Sri Lanka did pull out two victories to claim the trophy in Colombo, but both those wins came after no fewer than seven players of an already

News “You need that kind of shot-making ability” at the T20 World Cup in Australia later this year, says the India captain “That guy has got talent, man.” “I mean whenever we have seen him bat, he has just produced an innings where everyone goes over the moon watching that innings. He has got the

News “We are pretty clear with the balance and combination we want. We are just structuring the team around it and balancing individual workloads as well.” The glimpses of flexibility you saw in India’s batting order and approach against West Indies was no coincidence. It is something that has often been spoken about, both in