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News India’s coach also suggested that the team might continue to rest and rotate players over the coming 12 months India may have just swept the T20 World Cup runners-up 3-0 in his first series as full-time head coach, but Rahul Dravid wants to take a “realistic” view of where the team stands. He is

Report India rested Rahul and Ashwin, and picked Kishan, while New Zealand brought in Ferguson for Southee Toss India chose to bat vs New Zealand Rohit Sharma won his third straight toss, with India opting to bat this time to “challenge themselves against conditions”, presumably dew, in the third and final T20I at Eden Gardens.

Report Hyderabad, unbeaten before this game, were bowled out for 90 before TN got to the target with 34 balls to spare Tamil Nadu 92 for 2 (Vijay 43*, Sudharsan 34*, Readdi 2-23) beat Hyderabad 90 (Thyagarajan 25, Saravana 5-21, Mohammed 2-12, Ashwin 2-13) by eight wickets Tamil Nadu rode on an excellent bowling performance

News ‘Whether it’s next year or in five years’ time, I don’t know’ says CSK captain MS Dhoni has indicated that he would continue playing for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL – for at least one more season – as he hopes for a Chepauk farewell. Earlier, following Super Kings’ win in the IPL

Report Fifties from Rohan Kadam and Manish Pandey ensured Karnataka had enough to defend despite an outstanding final over from the seamer Karnataka 176 for 7 (Kadam 87, Pandey 54, Nalkande 4-28, Lalit 2-36) beat Vidarbha 172 for 6 (Taide 32, Satish 31, Cariappa 2-27) by four runs Darshan Nalkande took four wickets in four

Harshal Patel doesn’t think he’s very talented. His study of his bowling action has led him to conclude it’s biomechanically imperfect: he has “massive lateral flex at the point of delivery” which means the height from which he bowls – and consequently the bounce he could get – is reduced. The action is a greater

India 155 for 3 (Rahul 65, Rohit 55, Southee 3-16) beat New Zealand 153 for 6 (Phillips 34, Mitchell 31, Harshal 2-25, Ashwin 1-19) by seven wickets A 117-run stand between KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma topped off a superb team effort with the ball in dewy conditions as India wrapped up victory in the

Report Milne, Sodhi and Neesham return as visitors face a must-win game Toss India chose to bowl vs New Zealand If his first two matches as full-time T20I captain are anything to go by, Rohit Sharma will significantly improve on his predecessor Virat Kohli’s record in one respect: winning tosses. India, who are 1-0 up

Preview New Zealand need their bench strength to come to the fore in a more prominent way in the second T20I Big picture It was only last Sunday that New Zealand lost to Australia in the final of the T20 World Cup but so jam-packed is the international calendar at the moment that only five

News Former Australia captain reveals he was approached by BCCI to coach India before Dravid was appointed Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting is not able to take up coaching roles with the Australian and Indian teams because of “time commitments”. Ponting said “giving up 300 days a year is not something I would do” with

News “Security is the main challenge there, like teams have been attacked in the past, which is a concern,” India’s sports minister Anurag Thakur said Just one day after the ICC awarded the rights to the 2025 Champions Trophy to be played in Pakistan, the Indian government has expressed apprehensions about participation in the global

News Kanitkar, SS Das, Kotak to be batting coaches while board considers rolling out exclusive contracts for fast bowlers Former India and Mumbai legspinner Sairaj Bahutule will be the spin-bowling coach. Cooley is being roped in with an aim to create the country’s next generation of fast bowlers. A reputed fast-bowling coach, Cooley was with

Report Iyer returns, no Chahal; Chapman, Astle in NZ XI Toss India chose to bowl vs New Zealand Rohit Sharma won his first toss as India’s full-time T20I captain and chose to bowl against New Zealand in Jaipur. He said he expected dew to set in at some point during the game. India handed the

News Coach cites short turnaround time and hectic scheduling as key factor in their call New Zealand fast bowler Kyle Jamieson has decided to skip the three T20 internationals against India to focus on the upcoming Test series that signals the start of the new World Test championship cycle. “We decided through talking with Kane

Preview NZ will be without Williamson, Boult, Conway and Ferguson, while India ponder on sixth batter Big Picture On a shortlist of things you would least like to do after losing a World Cup final to a traditional rival would be turning up in a different time zone a mere three days later to play

News Taking care of their physical and mental well-being also one of the priorities for new leadership group Instilling “confidence” and “faith” in players and taking care of their’ “physical and mental well-being” in the wake of a packed schedule in relentless bio-bubbles are among the main objectives of India’s new T20I captain Rohit Sharma

News Odisha denied by umpiring gaffe, Hyderabad and Rajasthan keep all-win records A hat-trick, a four-over return without giving up a run, a controversial boundary call that rescued the defending champions and scintillating performances from IPL stars were among the many highlights from the group stages of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, India’s domestic T20

News Kotak, Bahutule part of India A coaching staff for South Africa tour Former India batter VVS Laxman has accepted the BCCI offer to take charge as director of cricket at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Laxman accepted the NCA position over the weekend. He has also informed Sunrisers Hyderabad

News The bilateral series kicks off on February 9 and ends on February 24, with the Women’s ODI World Cup starting on March 4 in Mount Maunganui India will play a six-match bilateral series comprising a T20I and five ODIs in February on their tour of New Zealand, before the two teams join six other

News Virat Kohli will miss the first Test, meanwhile, and return to lead the side in the second Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah will not be part of the Test series against New Zealand  Getty Images India will be without Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami when they take the

News Sending him to South Africa with India A will help him acclimatise before the Test team’s visit, when they are likelier to need a sixth specialist batter Hanuma Vihari last played for India on one leg. He fought excruciating pain from a hamstring tear to help India save the Sydney Test in January this

News Bowling coach also thinks a small break after the 2021 IPL might have helped refresh a team that has been on the road for six months Although he admitted that India have not performed to potential, bowling coach Bharat Arun is of the opinion that the toss has played too big a role at

News “It’s unfortunate we are out of this tournament but that takes nothing away from this great side.” For the first time since 2012, India will bow out of an ICC tournament before the semi-final stage. White-ball cricket aside, India have also managed sustained success in Tests, with back-to-back series wins in Australia and a

News The squad is without a number of first-choice players including Kohli, Bumrah, Jadeja and Shami Rohit Sharma will captain India in their first T20I series following Virat Kohli’s stepping down from the captaincy in the shortest format. It is not yet known if Rohit will be given the role permanently – for now, the

Report Rohit sealed a small chase with a fifty, after Jadeja and Ashwin took three wickets apiece India 136 for 1 (Rohit 56, Rahul 54*) beat Namibia 132 for 8 (Wiese 26, Ashwin 3-20, Jadeja 3-16) by nine wickets India signed off from the T20 World Cup on a winning note after restricting Namibia to

Ravi Shastri signed off from his four-and-a-half-year tenure as India’s men’s head coach as an “emotional, but a very proud man”, labelling his side “one of the great cricket teams in the history of the game” and underlining the toll that non-stop touring in biosecure conditions had taken on him and his players. Since his

News Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri tip the multiple-time IPL winner to take the reins as they sign off India’s selectors have not yet sat down with new coach Rahul Dravid to decide who the next T20I captain should be but the outgoing captain and coach have made an endorsement for Rohit Sharma. Virat Kohli

News If he takes up the job, Laxman will have to give up the role of Sunrisers Hyderabad mentor, as well as that of commentator and analyst The BCCI is looking at VVS Laxman as its favoured candidate to head the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore, following Rahul Dravid‘s elevation as head coach of

News India’s outgoing bowling coach looks back at his stint Bharat Arun is set to bow out as India’s bowling coach when the team’s T20 World Cup campaign ends on Monday, and he reckons India’s success in overseas Tests over the last two years has been the highlight of his work with the team. The

Big picture So a dead rubber it is, for India. Both groups in the Super 12s came down to hitting the eight-points mark eventually and India’s losses in the first two games had made their early exit all but a foregone conclusion. The last day of the group stage will, therefore, be the last day