Last Updated:December 19, 2024, 09:22 IST Here’s a look at three possible replacements for legendary spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the Indian Test team after he announced his retirement from international cricket on Wednesday, December 18. Washington Sundar (left) and Kuldeep Yadav will be among the favourites to replace R. Ashwin in the Indian Test team. … Read more
India’s premier off-spinner R Ashwin on Wednesday surprised the cricketing world by announcing his retirement with immediate effect in the middle of the Test series against Australia. Ashwin retires from the game as the second highest wicket-taker for India in Tests with 537 scalps in 106 games, leaving him only behind Anil Kumble (619 wickets). … Read more
Hayley Matthews | Image: BCCI Hayley Matthews’ scintillating 85 not out overshadowed Smriti Mandhana’s classy 62 as West Indies women ended their nine-match losing streak against India, winning the second T20I here by nine wickets to level the three-match series 1-1, here on Tuesday. After Mandhana’s 41-ball-knock and Richa Ghosh’s quickfire 32 off 17 balls … Read more
Gautam Gambhir, Abhishek Nayar | Image: X/@BCCI Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are copping maximum criticism for being walking wickets during the ongoing Test series against Australia but even Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant haven’t shown the patience needed to survive Down Under, indicating a larger problem. Patience is a virtue that one … Read more
KL Rahul reacts on reaching 50 runs during play on day four of the third cricket test between India and Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane | Image: AP Photo Tightening up defence and giving bowlers respect in the first 30 overs of an innings has been the mantra to KL Rahul’s success during the … Read more
The ICC World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 is reaching its business end. A three-match Test series between New Zealand and England concluded on Tuesday with both teams out of contention for the title clash at Lord’s next year. The state of play currently sees India and Australia, the last year’s finalists, fighting it … Read more
Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin | Image: AP Ravindra Jadeja stonewalled the Australian bowlers with a characteristically doughty fifty, carrying India to 201 for seven at tea on a rain-interrupted fourth day of the third Test here on Tuesday. Jadeja (65 batting, 109b, 6×4) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (16, 61b) added 53 runs for the … Read more
IND vs AUS (India National Cricket Team vs Australia National Cricket Team) 3rd Test Day 4 Live Updates: KL Rahul scored a half-century and looked set for a hundred but for a stunning one-handed catch from Steve Smith at first slip off Nathan Lyon that sent him back to the dressing room on 84. There … Read more
IND vs AUS (India National Cricket Team vs Australia National Cricket Team) 3rd Test Day 3 Live Updates: Australia wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey smashed his seventh Test fifty as the third day’s play resumed at the Gabba. The hosts have already piled up a mountain of scores and whatever the tailenders add to the board will be … Read more
Travis Head (Photo Source: X) When Travis Head made the walk to the middle, he was oozing confidence. And why wouldn’t he be? He was fresh from a hundred in the pink-ball Test and was batting with a very high degree of domination. The hosts’ innings was delicately placed at 75/3 in 33.2 overs and … Read more