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News “The operations team is working on whether we can do the league stage next month and complete the rest of the tournament later” BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal on Thursday said that the board intends to hold the Ranji Trophy 2021-22 in two phases after they were forced to postpone the premier first-class competition due

News Tours by SA, Australia, Netherlands and India women will now be confined to a small list of venues New Zealand Cricket has announced a revised home international schedule for the remainder of the 2021-22 season, with its venue list streamlined in order to mitigate the risk of disruption by the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

ODI squad: Rohit Sharma (capt), KL Rahul (vice-capt), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wk), Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan In: Rohit Sharma, Deepak Hooda, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan Out:

News Among ODI bowlers, Ngidi returned to the top 20 and in the T20I bowlers’ rankings Holder reached a career-best 26th South Africa wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock has jumped up four places in the ICC ODI rankings for batters to move to fifth place and Rassie van der Dussen has gone up 10 spots to

News “I’d rather have a longer run as a successful captain and leader, than start off with something big and then go downwards.” The past week has been bittersweet for KL Rahul. He became the joint-highest paid player in IPL history when Lucknow Supergiants signed him for INR 17 crore, but also captained India to

News Former India head coach suggests not announcing a vice-captain beforehand, but picking someone who can ‘fit into the XI’ on the day Former India head coach Ravi Shastri does not see any reason to panic after the team’s twin losses in South Africa. Speaking to PTI on the sidelines of the ongoing Legends Cricket

News Chamari Athapaththu breaks into top ten after showing strong form in the Commonwealth Games Qualifiers Meg Lanning and Tahlia McGrath have moved up in the ICC Women’s T20I rankings among batters after guiding Australia to a 1-0 series victory in the T20I leg of the ongoing Ashes series. Lanning, the Australia captain, displaced Smriti

News “I think through the middle overs we need to probably improve our wicket-taking options” For India coach Rahul Dravid, the ODI series against South Africa was an “eye-opener”. India lost the series 3-0 and Dravid felt it was “poor shots” that cost them the first and the third match. In both those games, Shikhar

News The RP Sanjiv Goenka group had earlier called the Pune franchise they acquired for two years Rising Pune Supergiants Lucknow Super Giants. That is the team name unveiled on Monday by the new IPL franchise bought by the RP Sanjiv Goenka group, a diversified Indian business group, for a record sum of INR 7090

News SA batter Lizelle Lee is ICC women’s ODI cricketer of the year Smriti Mandhana has won the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Trophy for being the ICC’s Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2021. She becomes only the second player, after Australia allrounder Ellyse Perry, to win the highest individual distinction in the women’s overall category of the

Three knockouts appearances in as many world tournaments between 2017 and 2020. Yet, a maiden world title eluded India in all three events, their mental toughness in the face of pressure coming under scrutiny every time. As runners-up India renew their pursuit of the ODI World Cup on March 6 in New Zealand, their premier

News India captain wants her batters to dig their heels in and ‘play according to match situation’ India captain Mithali Raj wants her batting line-up, especially the top order, to dig their heels in and “play according to the situation” in the upcoming ODI World Cup, instead of channeling their focus “entirely” on strike rate.

Report R Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Venkatesh Iyer and Bhuvneshwar Kumar made way for Jayant Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav, Prasidh Krishna and Deepak Chahar Toss: India opt to bowl vs South Africa Having already conceded the ODI series and with no Super League points up for grabs, India made four changes and chose to bowl in what

News India now have 12 available players for the Uganda fixture, with five more players set to arrive in time for the quarter-finals A day after India called up reinforcements in the form of five reserve players to be flown into the Caribbean for the Under-19 World Cup following a Covid-19 outbreak in the camp,

News The board also confirmed the ODIs will be played in Ahmedabad, followed by the T20Is in Kolkata The BCCI has confirmed that the venues for the limited-overs series at home against West Indies will be Ahmedabad and Kolkata, and has also advanced the third ODI from February 12 to 11, to avoid a clash

News Since away wins don’t fetch extra points, India’s fixture list since April 2018 worked against them Going into 2022, India were 16 points ahead of Australia on the ICC Test rankings table, 124 to 108. Less than three weeks later, that lead has vanished as Australia swept to the top of the table with

News The new franchise will pay him INR 17 cr – the same as Virat Kohli at Royal Challengers Bangalore KL Rahul has been signed by the Lucknow IPL franchise for INR 17 crore, making him the joint-highest-paid player in the IPL across seasons along with Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Virat Kohli. Sanjiv Goenka, who heads

News Joins Gary Kirsten and Ashish Nehra in the backroom of the new IPL franchise Vikram Solanki has resigned from his position as head coach at Surrey CCC with immediate effect, ending a nine-year association with the club, after being recruited to join the new IPL franchise – based in Ahmedabad – as its director

Report It’s a must-win game for India, and KL Rahul hoped the pitch will get slower at the match progresses Toss India chose to bat vs South Africa India captain KL Rahul opted to bat in the second ODI in Paarl, as India looked to keep the three-match series alive. India were unchanged and Rahul

News India will face Pakistan at the MCG on October 23 Australia will start the defence of their men’s T20 World Cup title against trans-tasman rivals New Zealand at the SCG in a rematch of last year’s final while India and Pakistan will face each other at the MCG. They were among the standout contests

News The BCCI also wants to tweak the schedule to avoid a clash with the two-day IPL auction, scheduled for February 12 and 13 The BCCI has decided to limit the number of venues for the upcoming limited-overs series against West Indies to two, instead of the original six, in a bid to limit chances

News South Africa move up a spot to fifth place after beating India; New Zealand retain second spot Australia have overtaken India and New Zealand to reclaim the No. 1 ICC Test rankings spot after their 4-0 Ashes win at home, pushing India down to third spot. South Africa’s 2-1 win over India at home

News Shaik Rasheed, Aaradhya Yadav, Vasu Vats, Manav Parakh and Siddarth Yadav are the others to have tested positive An unnamed BCCI official told PTI, “Three Indian players had tested positive yesterday and were already isolated. In the morning before match our captain and vice-captain also tested positive in Rapid Antigen Test which is not

Report R Ashwin makes his ODI comeback on a Paarl pitch that is expected to take some turn Toss: South Africa chose to bat v India Temba Bavuma won the toss for the opening ODI of South Africa’s three-match series against India in Paarl, and chose to bat first on a hot day, on a

News India’s stand-in captain feels Boland Park pitch could have something for slower bowlers, and both Ashwin and Chahal are likely to get a chance Stand-in captain KL Rahul has confirmed that he would be opening for India in the three-match ODI series in South Africa. “In the last 14-15 months, I have batted at

News BCCI anti-corruption unit helps player lodge police complaint following the offer, made through Instagram Former Tamil Nadu batter R Sathish has filed a police complaint in Bengaluru after being approached on social media to fix a match. In the complaint, filed on January 14 and seen by ESPNcricinfo, Sathish has mentioned that on January

News Both new IPL teams have now announced their three-player roster ahead of the February auction KL Rahul, who will lead India in the ODI series in South Africa, is one of the three players who have been picked up by the Lucknow IPL franchise; Australian allrounder Marcus Stoinis and uncapped Indian legspinner Ravi Bishnoi

News England captain and vice-captain will instead play the County Championship in preparation for a Test series against New Zealand Ben Stokes has joined Joe Root in deciding not to enter the auction for the 2022 edition of the IPL, with England’s Test captain and vice-captain instead set to prepare for the first Test of

News “Everybody has played enough cricket to understand that this is the way the game goes and this is how you have to move forward.” Jasprit Bumrah, who will be Rahul’s deputy for the series, feels everybody is “quite positive” about the changes and nobody is in a “weird space”. “I can’t speak for everyone

News Shastri, Ashwin, Ishant and wife Anushka post heartfelt messages on social media Other team-mates gave generous tributes to Kohli, under whose leadership India attained unprecedented highs, including a first-ever series win in Australia, while Ravi Shastri, who was the head coach for the majority of Kohli’s captaincy tenure, termed it a “sad day” because