Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul have been ruled out of the second Test against England starting on February 2 in Visakhapatnam.Uttar Pradesh left-arm spinner Saurabh, who has 290 first-class wickets at 24.41, has been part of the India Test squad before - he was picked for their ...
Ben Stokes described England's unlikely turnaround win against India in Hyderabad as their "greatest triumph" since he took over as captain, and labelled Ollie Pope's second-innings 196 "the greatest innings that has ever been played in the subcontinent by an English batsman".England have won 14 of their 19...
Pope said that he rated his fifth Test century "head and shoulders above the other four" and described India as "probably the toughest place for a batter to come at the minute". On England's most recent tour of the country, in 2021, he managed 153 runs across four...
When Nitish Rana soaked in his team-mates' applause after going from 99 to 100 on Saturday, he was experiencing a feeling both familiar and unfamiliar. It was his seventh first-class hundred in 47 games, but his first in more than four years.So much had happened between his sixth...
The reverse sweep was England's second most profitable shot (48 off 30 balls, no dismissals) in the second innings that took them from 190 behind to 126 ahead. Ollie Pope and Ben Duckett in particular were using it repeatedly, throwing India's spinners off the good length area where...
India 421 for 7 (Rahul 86, Jadeja 81*, Jaiswal 80, Bharat 41, Axar 35*, Root 2-77, Hartley 2-131) lead England 246 by 175 runsIndia all but batted England out of the first Test as early as the second day, overhauling their 246 for a first-innings lead of 175...
India's innings was only the second time in Test cricket since August 2018 that the first five wickets fell to attacking shots. And judging from the words of one of their three half-centurions, that approach isn't going away any time soon.India's batters bazballed England, particularly on the first...
Pat Cummins won the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year for leading Australia to the World Test Championship and the ODI World Cup titles, apart from helping the team to retain the Ashes. He staved off competition from team-mate Travis Head and...
India 301 for 7 (Musheer 118, Saharan 75, Riley 3-55) beat Ireland 100 (Forkin 27*, Tiwari 4-53, Pandey 3-21) by 201 runs A dominant India maintained their perfect start to the Under-19 World Cup, as a fluent century from Musheer Khan, followed by a four-wicket burst from fast...
Big pictureBazball vs spin. It promises to be the story of these five Tests, and it might be a story of parallel plots. There is, of course, Bazball vs India's spinners. But perhaps even more relevant to England's chances is the question of Bazball vs England's spinners.What? Hang...
