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...
For Shardul Thakur, making an impact in the game - irrespective of discipline - matters most. And along the way, if it helps deliver victory - even if he isn't always at the forefront - he's most satisfied. Like in the just-concluded ODI series against West Indies, where...
50 overs India 351 for 5 (Gill 85, Kishan 77, Pandya 70*, Samson 51, Shepherd 2-73) vs West IndiesShubman Gill, Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson scored half-centuries of different styles to set the platform for a tall India total in the series-deciding third ODI in Tarouba. Gill's was...
A fully-fit Jasprit Bumrah is finally back in the India squad - as captain as well - for the T20Is in Ireland in August. In another boost to India's fast-bowling stocks, Prasidh Krishna was also picked in the squad for the three games in Dublin.Bumrah hasn't played...
After India's loss in the second ODI, their head coach Rahul Dravid said: "With the Asia Cup and World Cup coming up, we have to look at the bigger picture. We cannot get worried about every single game and every single series. If we do that, it will...
Hardik Pandya has declared he's ready to shoulder a significantly higher bowling workload as he builds towards the 2023 World Cup, but is still a "turtle, not the rabbit."Hardik, currently in the Caribbean with India's limited-overs squad, has had two full months off since the IPL finished. In...
The 2023 ODI World Cup schedule will undergo a few changes, BCCI secretary Jay Shah has confirmed, with the revised version to be finalised in consultation with the ICC in a few days.Shah's statement came after it emerged this week that the BCCI was looking at moving the...
