KL Rahul has started only one first-class match as the designated wicketkeeper, but that doesn't seem like it will hold India back from playing him as a wicketkeeper in the two-Test series in South Africa. Two days before the first Test in Centurion, coach Rahul Dravid spoke at...
Big picture - A tough challenge for India It's been almost 40 years. Australia Women played a four-Test series in India in 1984, all of which ended in draws, with the last at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. On Thursday, India and Australia will start a one-off Test match, again...
After a curious sequence of events during the accelerated round at the IPL 2024 auction in Dubai on Tuesday, where Punjab Kings bid successfully for Shashank Singh and then tried to convince Mallika Sagar, the auctioneer, that they didn't want the player, the franchise has put things down...
Virat Kohli has returned home from South Africa for personal reasons, but is likely to rejoin the Test squad ahead of the Boxing Day Test in Centurion. Kohli didn't take part in the Indians' three-day intra-squad match, the only red-ball outing for a number of senior players including...
India Women 98 for 1 (Mandhana 43*, Shafali 40) trail Australia Women 219 (McGrath 50, Mooney 40, Healy 38, Vastrakar 4-53, Rana 3-56) by 121 runsHaving played a crucial role in India's big win over England last week, Pooja Vastrakar was at it again, this time with Australia...
Toss South Africa chose to bowl vs IndiaThere was an international debut for 30-year-old Rajat Patidar in the ODI series decider at Boland Park, as an unchanged South Africa chose to field against India.Patidar was one of two changes for India, with him replacing Ruturaj Gaikwad, who picked...
Big picture: We have an ODI series deciderIf this series felt like an afterthought before, the ODI on Tuesday night confirmed it, when the broadcast in India kept talking about the IPL auction instead of the cricket that was happening. A South Africa victory though has given...
South Africa 215 for 2 (de Zorzi 119*, R Hendricks 52) beat India 211 (Sudharsan 62, Rahul 56, Burger 3-30) by 8 wicketsSouth Africa levelled the ODI series by bowling India out for 211 in the surprisingly seam-friendly conditions of the usually slow and low St George's Park....
Mitchell Starc was "jittery" on Tuesday evening as he followed the IPL 2024 auction at his home in Sydney. It had already been a busy day for Starc: he had mowed the lawn, walked the dogs, done his shopping rounds and made himself dinner.Starc waited anxiously for his...
Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc has shattered the record for the most expensive player ever sold an IPL auction after being bought by Kolkata Knight riders for INR 24.75 crore (US$2,982,000 approx.). He surpassed the winning INR 20.50 crore bid (US$2,470,000 approx.) that Sunrisers Hyderabad had made for...
