Toss India chose to bowl vs AustraliaIndia captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and elected to bowl against Australia in the T20I series opener in Visakhapatnam.Just four days after they contested the World Cup final, both teams face the difficult task of having to front up for the...
Australia 241 for 4 (Head 137, Labuschagne 58*, Bumrah 2-43) beat India 240 (Rahul 66, Kohli 54, Starc 3-55, Cummins 2-34, Hazlewood 2-60) by six wicketsIndia may be where the heart of the game now resides, but the coolest Head in cricket has once again been shown to...
Big picture: More India vs Australia coming your wayNothing exemplifies the problem with the international cricket schedule quite like this T20I series between India and Australia. To start a five-match series four days after an ODI World Cup final is absurd in itself, although there is precedent as...
While India captain Rohit Sharma is really proud of his team for their spectacular run to the ODI World Cup final, he admitted they were just "not good enough" on the big day to get past serial-winners Australia in Ahmedabad. For starters, about 20-30 more runs while batting,...
In a radical step to regulate the pace of play, the ICC has said it will experiment with having a stop clock between overs. A penalty of five runs will be imposed on the bowling side if they fail three times in an innings to start the new...
With Hardik Pandya yet to recover from his ankle injury, Suryakumar Yadav will lead India in the five-match T20I series against Australia, starting November 23. Ruturaj Gaikwad will be the vice-captain for the first three games before handing over the responsibility to Shreyas Iyer who will join the...
With the bat, he had made 304 runs at a strike rate of 75.62. It raised questions - did it make sense, especially since Australia had another anchor, Steven Smith, who they wanted in the XI.As it turned out, Australia kept the faith, and Labuschagne delivered in the...
India fell "30-40 runs short" of a good total in the final, but it wasn't because of a fearful approach in the middle overs - that's the line Rahul Dravid took in the wake of his team's defeat to Australia in the 2023 World Cup title bout in...
ESPNcricinfo understands the semi-final was initially supposed to be played on Pitch 7, the central strip of the Wankhede Stadium's pitch block. Pitch 7 is a fresh surface that was not used in the league stage of the World Cup.The change represents a late deviation from the pitch...
Calmness. Atmosphere. Mindset. Positivity. Expectation.These are words India captain Rohit Sharma used with regularity in his 36-minute pre-final press conference in Ahmedabad ahead of the big day against Australia. He didn't say it, of course, but what he alluded to was this: while it'll be nice to win,...
