Very few Indian supporters would have dreamt about this win after the side was bowled out for 191 in the first innings and conceded a 99-run lead to the hosts. No wonder skipper Virat Kohli was a happy man. “This is among the top three bowling performances I have witnessed as India captain,” Kohli said …
Joe Root is living a dream after becoming the most successful England Test captain after trampling India in the third Test match at Headingly on Saturday and thereby levelling the five-match series 1-1 with two games to go. England crushed India by an innings and 76 runs in the third Test and that gave Root …
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For a man who looked simply unstoppable until a couple of years ago, Virat Kohli’s fortunes with the bat have nosedived quite inexplicably. Lean patches are part and parcel of any sportsperson’s journey. There are bound to be peaks and valleys in performances as the career chugs along. All greats of the game have had …
It’s time to celebrate Test cricket which many feel is on its deathbed. A day after West Indies pulled off a sensation one-run victory against Pakistan, India blew away England by 151 runs with less than 10 overs of play left in the second Test at Lord’s. A number of eyebrows were raised when India …
The conditions were not favourable to India. And the young side failed to live up to the expectations. Sri Lanka took advantage of both the factors to hand their fancied Asian neighbours a 2-1 Twenty 20 International series defeat in Colombo on Thursday. Celebrating his 24th birthday in style, leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga showed exactly why …
It was a game played under unusual circumstances as India, forced to field four debutantes and only five batsmen due to a Covid-19 case in the team, failed to defend a modest target of 133 against Sri Lanka at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Wednesday. The hosts thus kept the three-match series alive with …
Bouncing back from their defeat in the final One Day International, India outplayed Sri Lanka by 38 runs in the opening T20 International at the Premadasa Stadium on Sunday night. Suryakumar Yadav’s golden run with the bat was beautifully complemented by the Indian bowling unit led by Bhuvneshar Kumar as India began their preparation for …
With the series already in the pocket, India coach Rahul Dravid experimented with the bowling line-up along with a couple of changes in the batting order. But it did not provide the desired result as Sri Lanka finally managed to win a One-Day International on home soil after nine long years, beating the visitors by …
It was a rare day for Indian cricket when two Indian teams were playing in two different parts of the world on the same day for perhaps the first time ever. While the Virat Kohli-led side began preparation for the upcoming England Test series with a warm-up game against County Select XI in Durham, a …
The writing was on the wall. A day after World in Sport reported rescheduling of one of the matches due to the Covid-19 scare, the Indian Premier League (IPL) was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the league’s governing council members convened an emergency meeting at which …
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