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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will move out of its headquarters in the Wankhede premises in South Mumbai. The shift has been necessitated as the BCCI has decided to go in for renovation of the Cricket Centre. It will vacate the building in about a week. Till the completion of the…
Australia fast bowler Josh Hazlewood will miss the remainder of the Border-Gavaskar Test series after failing to sufficiently recover from his left Achilles injury. Head coach Andrew McDonald confirmed that Hazlewood, who missed the Nagpur and Delhi Tests, will now continue his rehabilitation programme back in Sydney. The 32-year-old fast bowler has been beset by side…
The opening day of the Delhi Test continued to race forward at a brisk pace, with Australia continuing to score at well over three runs an over. But their improved batting show led by Usman Khawaja’s 81 was still kept in check as India chipped away, adding three more to the wickets column to restrict Australia to…
One of Ravi Shastri’s tallest achievements as a coach was to prepare a worn-out Indian team to stand up to a marauding Australian pace attack at the Gabba in 2021. He impelled the players to fight on and Cheteswhar Pujara’s batting in that Test epitomised India’s resistance. Pujara stood intransigent, battered, bruised, taking blow after blow on…
Deepti Sharma became the first Indian, male or female, to reach 100 T20I wickets as she set up India’s six-wicket victory against the West Indies in Cape Town on Wednesday (February 15). On a wicket aiding the slower bowlers, Deepti finished with excellent figures of 3 for 15 from her four overs to restrict the…
Shreyas Iyer has been declared fit ahead of the second Test against Australia in Delhi, the BCCI confirmed on Tuesday (February 14). As a result, the middle-order batter will join the squad in New Delhi after getting clearance from the BCCI Medical Team. Iyer has been sidelined for close to a month with a back…
South Africa’s day was difficult even before they arrived at Boland Park on Monday to play New Zealand in the women’s T20 World Cup. Defeat would probably have taken them out of the race for the semi-finals. At the WPL auction, only four of their dozen players who entered their names were bought. They couldn’t…
The roar and a very David Warner-esque celebration said it all. Earnestly religious, Jemimah Rodrigues isn’t usually the one with such striking displays of aggression or emotion on the cricket field. But this was special. So, after helping herself to a fifty, and India to a seven-wicket win in their 2023 T20 World Cup opener against Pakistan,…
The inaugural Women’s Premier League (WPL) auction on Monday (February 13) may not exactly be an all-woman affair but the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has opted for a female auctioneer. According to WPL 2023 Player Auction Rules, communicated to the five WPL franchises, the BCCI said, Malika Advani, a Mumbai based…
R Ashwin bagged his 31st Test five-fer as Australia crumbled to a massive defeat by an innings and 132 runs in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. After India’s lower order had stretched their first innings lead to 223 in the morning session, Australia was rolled over after Lunch as the spinners ruled the roost once again, this…