West Indies' white-ball captain Kieron Pollard will return to the squad for their upcoming series against Ireland and England, the national cricket board (CWI) said on Friday.
In their 30 years of touring history in South Africa, the Wanderers is one venue where they have never lost a Test match and there have been milestones galore. Be it coach Rahul Dravid's first Test ton in 1997 or India's first Test win in South Africa in 2006, India have always been a force at this venue where swing and seam bowlers have held sway.
Chetan Sharma, Chairman, All India Senior-Selection Committee on Friday revealed that selectors are grooming KL Rahul for the role of captaincy. KL Rahul who has been fulfilling the vice-captaincy duties in the ongoing three-match Test series against South Africa on Friday was handed the role of skipper for the ODI series.
Progress is measured in milestones, and Thursday's 113-run win over South Africa in the first Test is a quantum leap. India's first-ever Test victory at this bastion for the home team -- SA have now lost only three out of 27 Tests here, and never lost to any Asian team before this - brings definitive indication that Virat Kohli's men have upended traditional beliefs of the team being poor travellers.
As news trickled in of Mumbai imposing Section 144 in the city and putting certain suburbs of the city under night curfew, the BCCI officials too locked themselves in a meeting to take a call on the upcoming domestic fixtures.
Did the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) know that Indian horsemen impersonated as Nepalese riders during the Tent Pegging World Cup Qualifiers in March?
Swing and bounce, the factors pacers depend on the most to trouble and dismiss batsmen. More than pace, or speed of a delivery, batsmen around the world are troubled by swing and bounce in Test cricket. A good batsman is one who is successful in all conditions and has the technique and temperament to score in all conditions against all the three types of balls used in all Test playing nations - SG, Dukes and Kookaburra.
Six of K Rahul's seven Test hundreds have now come overseas, so it's hard to believe this is the same cricketer who missed 16 Tests in succession between Sept 3, 2019 and Aug 3, 2021, the most by an Indian batter during this period. This is the same batter who averaged a shocking 7.50 on India's last tour to South Africa in 2018, with a highest of 16. Rahul, make no mistake, took guard in Centurion with a point to prove.
Jasprit Bumrah was hailed by Indian batting coach Vikram Rathour after making two late breakthroughs on the fourth day of the first Test against South Africa on Wednesday.
The fourth Test is due to start next Tuesday with Australia having already retained the Ashes, leading the series 3-0 with two matches to play. Both England and Australia are due to fly to Sydney via a chartered flight on Friday morning.
On Kohli’s tendency to chase at wide ones and gift his wicket away, Rathour said, “This is the shot that brings him lots of runs. This is his scoring shot. So he needs to play that shot. It’s always your strength that can turn out to be your weakness. If you don’t play a certain shot, you will never get out playing that shot, but you will never score runs off that shot as well".
South Africa pacer Kagiso Rabada still believes that his side can win the first Test against India despite being reduced to 94 for 4 in chase of a stiff target of 305 on the penultimate day in Centurion on Wednesday.
Manchester City beat Brentford 1-0 on Wednesday to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to an ominous eight points as title rivals Chelsea conceded a last-gasp equaliser at home to Brighton.
Taylor said the two-Test series against Bangladesh starting on Saturday will be his last in Test whites and he will call stumps on his career after the one-day internationals against Australia and the Netherlands in February and March. The 37-year-old has been a mainstay in the New Zealand batting order since making his debut in 2006, amassing a plethora of records and achievements.
Swiss ace Roger Federer has already pulled out as he recovers from a knee injury and Nadal's plans are unclear after contracting Covid-19. Djokovic is on the entry list for the first Grand Slam of the year, which begins in less than three weeks, but has refused to confirm if he has been vaccinated
Jurgen Klopp admitted Liverpool had only themselves to blame for their shock 1-0 defeat at Leicester City as Mohamed Salah's penalty miss and Ademola Lookman's winner dented the Reds' title challenge on Tuesday.
The credit for India's world class pace attack should always rest "only and only" with its playing members, feels Mohammed Shami, whose five-wicket haul has put India in complete control against South Africa in the first Test. Shami's sixth five-for in Tests also brought up a personal milestone of 200 wickets on a day when the four-pronged attack bowled the Proteas out for 197.
Rishabh Pant on Tuesday became the fastest Indian wicket-keeper to reach 100 dismissals in the longest format of the game.
Batsman Temba Bavuma says South Africa's lack of red ball cricket this year has been a big disadvantage and a key factor in their disappointing performance so far in the first Test against India at Centurion Park.
Bartholomew Ogbeche scored a brace on either side of halftime as Hyderabad FC recorded an emphatic 6-1 win over Odisha FC in the Indian Super League on Tuesday.
The slip in the US Open final came after 27 straight wins, a streak that had propelled Novak Djokovic to within a match of a historic calendar Grand Slam. That a knockout cocktail of pressure and fatigue finally got the Serb should be no more than a footnote of the 2021 tennis season which he owned in stellar fashion.
Cavani came off the bench to bag his first goal since October in the second half, ensuring Ralf Rangnick avoided a first defeat in four games as United's interim manager.
England lost the Ashes in humiliating style on Tuesday but for Joe Root it has been an incredible 12 months with the bat, the skipper ending the calendar year with the third most Test runs in history.
A reprise of the consistently wrong choices Virat Kohli used to make in the channel outside off-stump in his early years seem to have crept back in, accounting for the greatest Indian modern batter's barren, century-less run stretching back to Nov 23, 2019. This was when he last scored a hundred, in any format, in the pink-ball Test against Bangladesh.
Whenever Mumbai's cricket team plays badly, the cricketing stalwarts of the city are hurt. That pain was evident on former India coach Ravi Shastri's face as he expressed serious concern about Mumbai's poor show so far this season, while speaking as a chief guest on Sunday at the prize distribution function of the Police Shield at the Police Gymkhana on Marine Drive.
Romelu Lukaku came off the bench to lead Chelsea to a much-needed 3-1 victory at Aston Villa with midfielder Jorginho scoring two penalties in the Premier League on Sunday.
It was Virat Kohli's brave call to bat first that saw India dominate Day 1, putting up 272/3 at stumps to set the platform for a big first-innings score. Not always pretty or completely flawless, Rahul's innings was, instead, quietly assertive and wisely restrained.
ndia's strong opening day show may have put South Africa on the backfoot in the first Test here but the home side pacer Lungi Ngidi on Sunday said they still can turn the match around if they can bowl the tourists out under 350.
Denis Shapovalov, who is part of Canada's team for the 2022 ATP Cup, has tested positive for COVID-19 in Sydney, the 22-year-old said on Saturday.
Gerrard, 41, who joined the club last month, will miss both Sunday's home game to Chelsea and Tuesday's trip to Leeds United while isolating.
Australia have illustrated the depth of their fast bowling stocks by handing Scott Boland a debut in the third Ashes Test against England, which starts at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Sunday.
Rules concerning new generation athletics shoes will be tightened after the Paris 2024 Olympics, World Athletics said on Thursday.
India still have the core of the team that competed in 2018 intact and despite an underperforming middle-order, have the bowling arsenal to not just penetrate, but frustrate and do a good holding job. When the ball stops swinging, Indian bowlers have the mind-set to bowl stump to stump with two mid-wickets, a square leg, just two slips, and a ring field on the off-side and wait for the breakthrough and then, go for the jugular.
Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone faced increased pressure on Wednesday after the LaLiga champions slumped to a shock 2-1 defeat by Granada on Wednesday.
Peers and gully cricket buddies call him 'Jayasuriya'. Cricket romantics can take that a little further - if this Indian teenage version of the Lankan maestro needed a partner like Kaluwitharana, the selectors might have already found one in his academy mate.
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has questioned Joe Root's comments about England's bowlers during the Ashes and said that as captain of the touring side the onus is on him to make changes when needed.
Shuttle badminton was introduced to Indian fans by the men. The exploits of Prakash Padukone in the eighties and the success of Pullela Gopichand at All England in 2001 were the two big milestones before Saina Nehwal arrived on the scene with a bang in 2006.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino believes he has majority backing for his biennial World Cup plan, after national football leaders were told the switch would create an extra $4.4 billion in revenues for the world body.
The NBA announced the postponement of five games on Sunday amid a rising tide of Covid-19 cases around the league. The move comes after reports of five Cavaliers players testing positive for Covid-19.
Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool raised the spirits with a rip-roaring 2-2 draw in a pre-ChristmasPremier League classic on Sunday after a weekend marred by COVID-19 related postponements.
Former England skipper Michael Vaughan feels Australia have all bases covered in the longer format of the game and are a "lot better" team than the visitors in the ongoing Ashes.
KL Rahul’s evolution as an all-format player has earned him the vice-captaincy of the Indian Test team for the three-Test series in South Africa. Rahul’s elevation is a clear indication that the selectors and team management are looking at a transition phase and are in the process of identifying new leaders.
The Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) AGM will take place on Sunday in the national capital and not in Guwahati as originally proposed in the IOA’s election notification issued in mid-November, the Delhi High Court ruled on Friday.
NorthEast United FC recorded their second win of the Hero Indian Super League season by stunning SC East Bengal 2-0 at the PJN Stadium here on Friday.
Konica Layak, a 28-year-old shooter from Jharkhand who was training under Olympian and Arjuna Award winner Joydeep Karmakar hanged herself on Wednesday in the hostel room where she lived at Bally in Howrah on the outskirts of Kolkata.
The Premier League have postponed four more matches this weekend as the coronavirus crisis wreaked further havoc on the English top-flight on Thursday.
Australia skipper Pat Cummins has been ruled out of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide after being identified as a close contact of a COVID-19 case, elevating Steve Smith to the captaincy for the first time since 'Sandpaper-gate' in 2018.
Burnley's Premier League clash against Watford was postponed less than three hours before kick-off because of "an ongoing Covid outbreak" within the Hornets' squad on Wednesday.
Pakistan beat a resurgent West Indies in a thrilling finish by nine runs to win the second Twenty20 international in Karachi on Tuesday, taking an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.