Ravindra Jadeja during the first ODI cricket match of a series between India and New Zealand, at Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara, Gujarat. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) NEW DELHI: With the majority of first-choice ODI players busy at the Asian Games and a host of players nursing injuries, it’s going to be a heady day for the…
Jasprit Bumrah (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Jasprit Bumrah added another milestone to his T20I career during India’s second T20I against Afghanistan at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.Bumrah opened the bowling for India with a maiden over. It was his 13th maiden in T20I cricket and helped him become the bowler with the most maiden…
New Delhi: Mohammad Nabi moved to his left, leaped ever so slightly at the long-off boundary rope, got his hands underneath the leather and held on. A few inches more and the ball would have possibly evaded him for a six. Instead, he gestured ‘out’ to the umpire and a probing Rashid Khan. The Afghanistan…
Nitish Kumar Reddy (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: “I always wanted to become the greatest all-rounder,” Nitish Kumar Reddy said after playing a key role in India’s seven-wicket win over Afghanistan in the second T20I at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Tuesday.Reddy returned figures of 3/24 as India restricted Afghanistan to 159 for eight….
Sanju Samson (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: It’s not easy being Sanju Samson. He has been forever walking the line in his 10-year-old international career, partly because of team dynamics and mostly because of his unignorable inconsistency. As he has often done in his career when pushed to a corner, he served a reminder on Tuesday…
India made one change to their playing XI. Ravi Bishnoi replaced the injured Varun Chakaravarthy. (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: India captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and opted to field against Afghanistan in the second T20I at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.India won the opening T20I by seven wickets and currently lead the…
India vs Afghanistan Live Score, 2nd T20I: India will look to seal the three-match T20I series against Afghanistan when the two teams meet in the second game on Tuesday. India returned to T20I cricket with a dominant seven-wicket win over Afghanistan in the series opener on Sunday. But captain Shreyas Iyer will have one major…
Zimbabwe: 1 Brian Bennett, 3 Ben Curran, 3 Innocent Kaia, 4 Brendan Taylor, 5 Craig Ervine, 6 Sikandar Raza (capt), 7 Wessly Madhevere, 8 Brad Evans, 9 Newman Nyamhuri, 10 Wellington Masakadza, 11 Blessing Murazabani Australia: 1 Mitch Marsh (capt), 2 Travis Head, 3 Cooper Connolly, 4 Josh Inglis (wk), 5 Alex Carey, 6 Matt…
Pat Cummins, Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne Australia captain Pat Cummins expects the Test team could encounter some hostility when it returns to South Africa for its first red-ball tour there since the infamous Sandpaper Gate scandal of 2018.Australia are scheduled to play three ODIs and three Tests in South Africa. Although the Australians have…
NEW DELHI: There’s growing concern in Indian cricket over the paucity of seam-bowling allrounders. The team management and the selectors are forever in the hunt to find a backup for the injury-prone Hardik Pandya. Even India’s dominant win over Afghanistan in the first T20I here on Sunday night couldn’t mask the big crack in their…