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Pant breaks Dhoni's record in Test cricket behind stumps

Centurion, Dec 27 (UNI) The second day's play of the first Test between India and South Africa had to be called off without a ball being bowled due to persistent rain here on Monday. The start of the match, which was scheduled at 1:30 pm…

Hamirpur (HP), Dec 27: While congratulating the players of Himachal Pradesh for winning the Vijay Hazare Trophy by defeating the mighty Karnataka team, former HP Chief Minister and senior BJP leader, Prem Kumar Dhumal has said that those…

Strong Kohli teams looks for first series win in South Africa

Mumbai, Dec 21 (UNI) The 1983 Cricket World Cup winning India team gathered for an interactive session ahead of the much-awaited release of 83 film here at the Film City on Tuesday. The movie 83 is based on the Indian team that defeated…

London, Dec 21: Fast bowler Jofra Archer has been ruled out of England's tour of West Indies in March, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed on Tuesday. The board in a statement stated that the fast bowler "underwent a…

Mumbai, Dec 18: The All-India Senior selection committee of BCCI today named KL Rahul as vice-captain for the upcoming three-match Test series against South Africa. Rahul replaced Rohit Sharma as vice-captain, who was ruled out of the Test…

Chandigarh, Dec. 15: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday posted on Twitter a picture of him with former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh, setting off speculation about the veteran off-spinner joining the party ahead of the…

Mumbai, Dec 13 (UNI) India Test vice-captain Rohit Sharma on Monday was ruled out of the upcoming three-match series against South Africa. Priyank Panchal will replace Rohit in the Test squad after the vice-captain sustained a left…

Kabul, Dec 13: India will host Afghanistan for three-match One-Day International series in March next year, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) announced on Monday.  The ACB put out their Future Tour Program (FTP) for 2022-23, which…

Irrespective of India’s performance at the T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli would have stayed as white-ball captain if he wouldn’t have relinquished T20I captaincy. Once Kohli quit captaincy in the shortest format, the selectors decided to…

Rohit Sharma has replaced Virat Kohli as India’s ODI captain. Unlike the T20I captaincy change, where the announcement came from Kohli, citing his workload, this is a BCCI decision, to remove him as ODI skipper. Three months ago, while…

Captaincy never seemed to shrink Virat Kohli, rather he had grown with it. Through largely good times, and the intermittent bad, leading a team never seemed to burden him. Shades of silver did intrude into his once jet-black tidily-trimmed…

Johannesburg, Dec 7 (UNI) Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Tuesday announced a 21-member squad for the three-match Test series against India, which is set to take place from December 26 to January 15, 2022. The series will form part of the…

Former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh will be seen in a different avatar during next year’s Indian Premier League as a key member of the support staff in one of the high-profile franchises. The 41-year-old Harbhajan, who featured in a…

ICC Player of Month nominations for November announced; Abid Ali and David Warner shortlisted

Brisbane, Dec 7 (UNI) Australia will be looking to keep a stranglehold on the urn, having held the Ashes for two series in a row since 2017, as they host England in the first Test at the Gabba here on Wednesday. A new era beckons for…

Mumbai, Dec 6: Team India reclaimed the No. 1 spot in the ICC Test team rankings after winning the two-match series against New Zealand on Monday. India registered a mammoth 372-run victory over Blackcaps on fourth day of the second Test…

Mumbai, Dec 6 (UNI) India won the second Test and the two-match series against New Zealand by a massive margin of 372 runs on day four here at the Wankhede stadium on Monday. The mammoth victory margin marks India's biggest ever win. The…

A boy from the Mumbai suburb of Jogeshwari, who had moved to New Zealand as a child, came back to the City of Dreams and wrote his name in the history books. On Saturday, Kiwi left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel became just the third bowler to take…