The ICC has handed an "unsatisfactory" rating and one demerit point to the pitch that hosted the New Year's Test between South Africa and India at Newlands in Cape Town.Cricket South Africa has confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that it will not appeal the sanction, which an official called a...
Cheteshwar Pujara has scored his 17th double-century in first-class cricket, in the opening round of the 2023-24 Ranji Trophy season, against Jharkhand. Batting overnight on 157, Pujara went past 200 in the first session of the third day and remained unbeaten on 243 after lunch, when Saurashtra declared...
Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya will not be part of the Indian squad for the three-match T20I series at home against Afghanistan that starts on January 11. Ruturaj Gaikwad is also unavailable with a finger injury, and is likely to miss the first part of the England Test...
Australia 133 for 4 (Perry 34*, Healy 26, Deepti 2-22) beat India 130 for 8 (Deepti 30, Wareham2-17, Sutherland 2-18, Garth 2-27) by six wicketsA disciplined bowling effort and a memorable cameo from Ellyse Perry, on her 300th international game, handed Australia a six-wicket win in the second...
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have returned to India's T20I squad after an absence of more than a year from the format for the three-match series against Afghanistan, India's last T20I series before the T20 World Cup in June.Rohit and Kohli have not played T20Is since India's semi-final...
Abhimanyu Easwaran will lead India A in the visiting England Lions' first two fixtures in Ahmedabad later this month. The shadow tour to the five-Test series between India and England starts with a two-day warm-up game on January 12-13, followed by a four-day first-class fixture on January 17-20,...
The beginning of the 2023-24 Ranji Trophy brought crowds in big numbers to Patna's Moin-ul-Haq Stadium - a venue that once hosted World Cup fixtures in 1996 - and hosts Bihar gave the people plenty of reasons to cheer. Mumbai, the 41-time champions, had been reduced to 235...
Pujara will be available for the first seven County Championship matches in his third successive season with Sussex. Hughes, meanwhile, will be available from the start of the T20 Vitality Blast until the end of the season, playing in both the Blast and County Championship. They join bowlers...
Big picture - England Women to play their 100th TestAfter a turnaround of just two days from the third T20I, India and England gear up for a Test. Not just any other Test. The first women's Test hosted by India since 2014. The first women's Test in India...
Rohit Sharma has called out the ICC and the match referees for what he sees as double standards at rating pitches. After winning the shortest Test in the history of the game, thanks to a lottery pitch loaded too heavily in the favour of the seam bowlers, Rohit...
