Tilak Varma has started his international career in fine fashion, clearly India's best batter in the first two T20Is against West Indies on tricky pitches in Tarouba and Providence. India lost both games, but Tilak played his part well, with help from Rahul Dravid and Hardik Pandya."I have...
West Indies 155 or 8 (Pooran 67, Pandya 3-35, Chahal 2-19) beat India 152 for 7 (Tilak 51, Joseph 2-28, Shepherd 2-28) by two wicketsWest Indies beat India in back-to-back T20Is for the first time since 2016, thus giving themselves every chance of triumphing over India in a...
Big picture: Fearless approach sets the tone
In the first T20I on Thursday, there was a hint of the fearlessness and the freedom with which both West Indies and India batted. Despite losing both opening batters inside three balls of the fifth over, Nicholas Pooran pumped Yuzvendra Chahal for...
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) has requested the BCCI to move the England vs Pakistan ODI World Cup game, scheduled to be played at Kolkata's Eden Gardens on November 12, to another date, suggesting November 11 as an alternative. The development came after the city police informed...
Bangladesh 103 for 6 (Shamima 42, Nigar 14, Vaidya 2-16, Mani 2-28) beat India 102 for 9 (Harmanpreet 40, Rodrigues 28, Rabeya 3-16, Sultana 2-17) by four wicketsTwo days after coming close to upstaging them, Bangladesh defeated India in the final T20I to register a consolation win and...
India batter Prithvi Shaw is set for his maiden stint in the English county circuit after formalising a deal with Northamptonshire for the upcoming One-Day Cup, which is set to run from August 1 to September 16.Shaw arrived in the UK on Sunday and will feature in his...
After winning the first of five T20Is against India on Thursday, Rovman Powell said that West Indies' batting against India's spinners in the middle overs will hold the key to the outcome of the series."It was difficult," Powell said of West Indies' slowdown in the middle overs -...
West Indies 149 for 6 (Powell 48, Pooran 41, Chahal 2-24, Arshdeep 2-31) beat India 145 for 9 (Tilak 39, Holder 2-19, McCoy 2-28) by four runsA T20 team built with the future in mind was unable to deal with the challenges of the present as West Indies...
Former India batter Manoj Tiwary has retired from all forms of cricket, ending a 19-year domestic career.Tiwary played all his domestic cricket for Bengal and also won the IPL with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012, when he hit the winning runs in the last over of the chase....
Big picture: IPL heroes vs CPL starsThough West Indies failed to qualify for the main event of the last T20 World Cup - and the upcoming ODI World Cup - their T20I side seems to be in better health than their ODI and Test teams. Either side of...
