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India versus England. The last Test of the last-but-one series in the current World Test Championship cycle. Everything is on the line. For India, it’s simple: win or draw, and they book their place in the final, alongside New Zealand. For England there’s the incentive of playing spoiler: if they win, India will miss out,

News Prospect of drawn series in India leaves England with ‘loads to play for’, captain says Joe Root believes England would have achieved something “phenomenal” if they win the final Test against India. Although the possibility of winning the series, or reaching the final of the World Test Championship, has gone, Root is adamant that

News The last remaining spot will go to the winner of the Delhi vs Uttarakhand game Mumbai, Saurashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Kerala have filled up the last four automatic qualification spots for the quarter-final stage of the Vijay Hazare Trophy. They join Gujarat, Andhra, and Karnataka, who had sealed qualification on Sunday by topping their

The league phase for three of the Elite Groups in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2020-21 ended on Sunday, with Gujarat, Andhra and Karnataka topping Groups A, B and C. The last round of the league phase will take place on Monday, with the teams finishing on top in Elite Groups D and E joining the

News Former Karnataka captain finished with 504 first-class wickets, including a record 442 in the Ranji Trophy R Vinay Kumar, the former India seamer, has announced his retirement from first-class and international cricket, bringing the curtain down on a first-class career that spanned 16 years and made him a domestic giant. He played most of

News No replacements will be brought in for the series finale in Ahmedabad, BCCI confirms Jasprit Bumrah has been released from India’s squad for the fourth and final Test against England in Ahmedabad, starting March 4, after he put in a request to be granted leave “owing to personal reasons”. “Accordingly, the fast bowler has

News The series begins on March 7 in Lucknow starting with three ODIs followed by five T20Is Allrounder Shikha Pandey and wicketkeeper Taniya Bhatia have been left out of India’s limited-overs squad for the women’s home series against South Africa in Lucknow. The series begins on March 7 starting with three ODIs followed by five

News The Indian board would prefer for tournaments to be allocated, as they have been before The BCCI has again expressed its unhappiness at the ICC’s new bidding policy to find hosts for its global events in the 2023-20131 cycle. The reservations are not new but were reiterated at a meeting for ICC members on

News WV Raman and support staff contracts extended, possibility of crowds at 40-50% being explored Nine days out from the start of India Women’s first assignment in a year, against South Africa at home, the squads for the five-match ODI series or the three T20Is, the venue or the tour itinerary itself, have not been

News “Time has come today for me to put a full stop to this innings of my life,” 38-year-old allrounder says Yusuf Pathan, the big-hitting allrounder who was part of the Indian teams that won the 2007 World T20 as well as the 2011 World Cup, has announced his retirement from all forms of the

India captain Virat Kohli chose the word ‘bizarre’ to describe the game and the two teams’ batting displays after India beat England inside two days in Ahmedabad. With the visitors all out for 112 and 81, and India crumbling to 145 in their first innings, Kohli said that batsmen from both sides showed a lack

Was the Ahmedabad pitch poor? Virat Kohli rates it ‘very good’; Alastair Cook calls it ‘so hard’; Sunil Gavaskar says “challenging”; Andrew Strauss says balance “too much in favour” of spinners The first Test at the new Narendra Modi stadium will be remembered as the shortest one ever played in India. This day-night Test, the

Report This is his second century in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy Dropped from the Test team to sort out his technique, Prithvi Shaw, leading the Mumbai senior team for the first time in place of the rested Shreyas Iyer, struck form in the 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy. On Thursday, he converted his fifth List

News Joe Root and Chris Silverwood speak with Javagal Srinath after on-field exasperation England’s captain and coach have asked the match referee to ensure “consistency” in the process by which the TV umpire comes to decisions after more contentious moments on the first day of the third Test in Ahmedabad. Joe Root and Chris Silverwood

Big picture Before the start of the series, England’s best chance of winning a Test in India was the day-night Test in Ahmedabad. The fact that England go there with the series level at 1-1 has changed the dynamics in a big way. England know this could be the series-defining Test and their opportunity to

News All other players of the squad set to undergo tests on Tuesday, with results expected by evening The Vijay Hazare Trophy, the domestic 50-over men’s competition in India, has seen its first case of Covid-19 with a Bihar player testing positive for the novel coronavirus, following which all the other members of the squad

News This will be the first international cricket India women will play since the T20 World Cup final a year ago The India women’s team are set to play their first game in a year since the Women’s T20 World Cup final on March 8, 2020. They will face South Africa women in a series

News India’s captain says pink ball Tests upend traditional batting and bowling tactics, and the team will have to adjust to that Bowl to contain at the start and cash in once the ball starts to misbehave under lights. Bat freely during the day, and take a fresh guard and bat as if opening the

News Fast bowler cleared a fitness Test and will be part of the squad for both remaining games Umesh Yadav has been added to India’s squad for the third and fourth Tests against England after clearing a fitness test. Yadav, who had given the fitness test on Sunday, was formally added to the squad on

England’s seamers have been “licking their lips” at the thought of using a pink ball under floodlights in Ahmedabad, according to Ben Stokes. While England succumbed to a defeat by 317 runs in a second Test dominated by the spinning ball, Stokes believes the third could be “a completely different game” with the seamers expected

News “That’s the meaning of home advantage. Else, just take it away,” says India’s opener Rohit Sharma has a simple message to the experts, fans and everyone watching the game: debate performances and not pitches, because it’s the same for both sides – and the team that plays better, wins. The India opener never shies

News The India batsman also touched on how the team is managing the pressure of trying to make the WTC final Rohit Sharma, the India opener, spoke to the media on Sunday, three days ahead of the third Test against England in Motera. He touched upon the “twilight period” during pink-ball Tests, World Test Championship

News “Legally and constitutionally it’s our right to participate in the tournament and nobody can remove us from it” Ehsan Mani, the PCB chairman, has said that Pakistan will demand the T20 World Cup to be shifted out of India if Pakistan do not get written assurances from the host country on the safety and

News Bhuvneshwar, Chakravarthy back in squad; Samson misses out India have named three of IPL 2020’s top performers – batsman Suryakumar Yadav, wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan, and allrounder Rahul Tewatia in their squad for the five-match series against England that begins from March 12. The squad also has the returning Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Varun Chakarvarthy, while

News Bidding wars to big steals, don’t miss any of it with ESPNcricinfo’s live updates Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s live updates on the 2021 IPL auction. If the blog doesn’t load for you straightaway, please click here. Also, you’ll find our up-to-date IPL squads here. (Conversion rates as follows: USD 1 = INR 73 approx; INR

News Says he “strongly feels the need for professional help” on the mental-health front to be part of team set-ups Virat Kohli felt like the “loneliest guy in the world” when he went through a stretch of five Tests on the England tour in 2014 without a half-century. He made this revelation in a chat

It wasn’t a mega affair, but the IPL 2021 auction was always going to be exciting, what with all the eight teams having a number of holes to plug. As it turned out, big money was splurged on some players – breaking payment records along the way – and this is what the teams looked

News “He has to show all the coaching staff and the think tank that he has got the goods to belong there” The Mumbai Indians’ leadership has come out in unequivocal endorsement of 21-year-old left-arm medium pacer Arjun Tendulkar, and backed what they described as a measured decision to pick him up at the IPL

News Dream11 had replaced Vivo last season in the aftermath of the military clashes at the India-China border Vivo has returned as IPL’s title sponsor for the 2021 edition after its deal with the BCCI had been suspended for the 2020 edition – “Vivo is back with us,” IPL chairman Brijesh Patel announced during his

News He picked up the injury while fielding at short leg on the third evening of the second Test Shubman Gill, the India opening batsman who copped a blow in his left forearm while fielding at forward short-leg on the third evening, has been taken for a “precautionary scan”, the BCCI confirmed on Tuesday, the