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News He has been in terrific form in the IPL since 2019 and yet may not find a spot in India’s first-choice T20I XI right now Shikhar Dhawan has added a new gear to his T20 batting, as evidenced by his returns in the IPL, particularly since the middle of the 2019 season. In IPL

News The three had to isolate after training assistant Dayanand Garani tested positive for Covid-19 Bowling coach Bharat Arun, wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, and reserve batter Abhimanyu Easwaran rejoined the Indian squad in Durham on Saturday – and even took part in a training session – after completing a ten-day quarantine in accordance with the UK’s

Report Sri Lanka make three changes too, including a debut for left-arm spinner Praveen Jayawickrama With the series already in the bag, and the ODI Super League inconsequential to them (because they have automatic qualification, as hosts of the next World Cup), India have named five debutants and made six changes to the XI that

Preview India may continue to test their bench strength having already taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series Big picture India shut the door on Sri Lanka in the first ODI. In the second match, Sri Lanka failed to close out the game. And just like that, in a matter of three days, the

Report Jadeja scored his second half-century of the match Indians 311 (Rahul 111, Jadeja 75, Miles 4-45) and 192 for 3 dec (Jadeja 51, Agarwal 47, Vihari 43*, Carson 2-64) drew with County Select XI 220 (Hameed 112, Yadav 3-22, Siraj 2-32) and 31 for 0 (Libby 17*, Hameed 13*) Ravindra Jadeja made his second

News It would appear, meanwhile, that the injured Shubman Gill is now back in India Rishabh Pant has joined the India squad after recovering from Covid-19 and completing his mandatory period of isolation. Pant tested positive on July 8, and had not travelled with the rest of the team to Durham, where the Indians are

News Bowler has suffered a fractured left thumb in the Indians’ warm-up match against County Select XI Avesh Khan‘s tour of England is likely to have come to an end as ESPNcricinfo has learned that the Madhya Pradesh fast bowler has suffered a fracture in his left thumb, which he hurt on the first day

Report Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Siraj pick up five wickets between them to earn the visitors a 91-run lead Indians 311 (Rahul 111, Jadeja 75, Miles 4-45) lead County Select XI 220 (Hameed 112, Yadav 3-22, Siraj 2-32) by 91 runs For a better part of the last ten years, the Indians have preferred to

News ‘We’re a young team. We haven’t won much recently, and we’re trying to do our best to play together for our country’ After a stretch of losses, Sri Lanka had an ODI victory in their grasp, but let it slip. For a team low on confidence, it had to have been devastating. Batter Charith

Report Both Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane were rested for the fixture following fitness concerns Indians 306 for 9 (Rahul 101 retired out, Jadeja 75, Miles 3-42) vs County Select XI KL Rahul made his case for a Test return with a polished century on the first day of India’s warm-up fixture against County Select

Virat Kohli is likely to be available for the Test series opener against England © ICC/Getty Images India’s Test captain Virat Kohli and his deputy Ajinkya Rahane missed the three-day warm-up against County Select XI in Chester-le-Street because of a stiff back and swelling in the left hamstring respectively. The niggles, the BCCI said in

Report India named an unchanged XI Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat vs India Sri Lanka won the toss and have chosen to bat first at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, just as they had done in the first ODI. They made one change, bringing in Kasun Rajitha for Isuru Udana in a pacer-for-pacer

News India batter continuing his recovery from shoulder injury suffered in March India batter Shreyas Iyer has been ruled out of appearing for Lancashire in the upcoming Royal London Cup. Iyer had signed as an overseas player for the 50-over tournament but required surgery on a shoulder injury suffered during India’s home ODI series against

News Pant’s quarantine was supposed to get over on July 18, and he should be available for the first Test in England KL Rahul is likely to keep wicket for the Indians in their three-day warm-up match against a Select County XI starting July 20 at Chester-le-Street, with Rishabh Pant yet to link up the

News The return of his pairing with Yuzvendra Chahal paid dividends for India Among the eleven Indians who took the field against Sri Lanka in the first ODI, perhaps none had a greater point to prove than Kuldeep Yadav. The left-arm wristspinner has not been part of India’s first-choice XI in limited-overs formats recently, and

Report Sanju Samson was ruled out with sprained ligament in his knee Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat vs India Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat in the first ODI against India – new captain Dasun Shanaka citing the Khettarama ground’s history of favouring teams that batted first. Both teams handed debuts

News Limited-overs captain says no chats with team management in England about player selection have happened yet Competition for the opening slot is a good thing, and the Sri Lanka tour will be a step towards narrowing down on a few options ahead of the T20 World Cup, according to India’s stand-in captain Shikhar Dhawan,

News The player is in quarantine and will not travel with the team to Durham on Thursday One of the 23 India cricketers on the ongoing tour of England has tested positive for COVID-19 during the team’s 20-day break and will not be travelling with the team to Durham on Thursday. The news comes in

News India fast bowler “just working normally, trying to prepare in a way that I’m ready for all formats” Bhuvneshwar Kumar isn’t ready to prioritise one format over another just yet. While Virat Kohli has often underlined the importance of a fit Bhuvneshwar to India across formats, his exclusion from the England tour led to

News A senior coach and two players have been identified as close contacts, and asked to quarantine in London for ten days After Rishabh Pant, four more members of the Indian contingent in England have been forced to quarantine – in London for ten days – following one of the members of the support staff

News Allrounder writes to BCA asking to be “relieved” with immediate effect Allrounder Deepak Hooda has decided to leave Baroda. ESPNcricinfo understands that Hooda, who had been banned for the 2020-21 season in January by the Baroda Cricket Association for “indiscipline“, wrote to the BCA on July 12 asking to be “relieved” with immediate effect

Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, has defended his board’s decision to relax the bio-secure environments that were a feature of England’s behind-closed-doors campaign in the 2020 home season, arguing that the mental health and well-being of the players in its competitions requires the game to “learn to live” with Covid-19, rather than seek to

Ramesh Powar, the India Women head coach, has underlined two key areas as the team builds into a busy seven-month stretch leading into the 50-overs World Cup in February 2022: widening India’s fast-bowling pool and improving their middle-overs batting. India fielded only four fast bowlers across formats in England. In her comeback series, Shikha Pandey

News The three-day match starting July 20 will feature “a number of players from the county circuit”, a Durham Cricket release said India are set to play a three-day warm-up match starting July 20 against a County Select XI at Chester-le-Street in Durham. India will use the Riverside Ground “as a home venue for their

News He has been given a two-year contract by the Odisha Cricket Association Former Test opener and domestic veteran Wasim Jaffer was on Wednesday named chief coach of the Odisha senior side for the upcoming domestic season. “He (Jaffer) will be the head coach. He has been given a two-year contract,” Subrata Behera, Odisha Cricket

News India opener hopes she and her partner Shafali Verma can bat through to the 15th over and set the team up in the decider against England Smriti Mandhana wants India’s openers – basically her and Shafali Verma – to bat long into the middle overs to ensure better results in T20 cricket. Since Verma’s

News Following her key role in India levelling the T20I series against England, allrounder says she has learnt to “read and handle situations” better Deepti Sharma, one of the chief architects of India’s eight-run win over England in the second women’s T20I, says she has got better at reading and handling difficult match situations and

News Senior batsman has got NOC and is available for selection for his home team immediately Sheldon Jackson, the domestic veteran, is set to return to Saurashtra, the team he won the Ranji Trophy with in 2019-20. After the Ranji win, Jackson moved to Puducherry as a professional player. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Jackson

News Singh said he had to listen to his body after a bout of Covid-19 left him feeling weak Former India fast bowler Pankaj Singh, 36, has retired from all forms of cricket, thereby ending his professional career that spanned nearly 17 years. Singh said he had to listen to his body after a bout

‘The field placements and the work we have been putting in as a team, we are getting more results out of them day by day’ – Harmanpreet Kaur © Getty Images Harmanpreet Kaur has described Harleen Deol‘s stunning catch to dismiss England’s Amy Jones in the first T20I on Friday as a “brilliant” effort that