New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes India captain Rohit Sharma should be given his usual opening position for the third Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test against Australia starting December 14 in Brisbane. Must return. For the second Test at the Adelaide Oval, Rohit decided to bat at number six so as not … Read more
Dubai, December 12 (IANS). Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting believes that a witty comment by Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal during the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy inspired Mitchell Starc to give his best performance in the second Test. In the first Test, in Perth, Jaiswal scored a brilliant 161 in the second innings. During … Read more
Perth, December 11 (IANS). Indian women’s cricket team’s opening batsman Smriti Mandhana’s 9th ODI century could not avert Team India’s defeat against host Australia. Australia’s Annabel Sutherland’s brilliant 110 runs and Ashley Gardner’s 5 wickets for 30 runs helped the Australian women’s team clean sweep the Indian team and win the series 3-0 on Wednesday. … Read more
Basseterre (St Kitts), December 10 (IANS). West Indies bowler Alzarri Joseph has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee by the ICC for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct by using offensive language in a conversation with a match official during the first ODI against Bangladesh. The host team won … Read more
New Delhi, December 10 (IANS). Former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh has urged the cricket world to move on from the Travis Head-Mohammed Siraj incident that sparked controversy during the pink-ball Test in Adelaide. In this controversy that started on the second day, Siraj gave a rousing farewell to Head after dismissing him for 140 runs … Read more
Harare, 9 December (IANS). Ben Curran, brother of England men’s players Sam and Tom, has been included in Zimbabwe’s squad for the first time for the ODI series against Afghanistan. Apart from him, Zimbabwe has also included young left-arm fast bowler Newman Nyamahuri in the squad for the first time, who has also been included … Read more
Adelaide, 9 December (IANS). It seemed as if Scott Boland was never away. He played his first home Test in two years against India in Adelaide and would have got a wicket on the very first ball had he not bowled a no ball. What he could not do in the first innings, he did … Read more
Adelaide, 8 December (IANS). Australia’s left-handed batsman Travis Head was named ‘Player of the Match’ for his match-winning innings of 140 runs in the second Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy against India. Head said it was a pleasure for him to score runs again on his home ground. Head, with his flamboyant batting and … Read more
New Delhi, December 8 (IANS). Australia has leveled the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series 1-1 by defeating India by ten wickets in the second Test played at Adelaide Oval. With this win, Australia has again reached the first position in the rankings for the 2023-2025 ICC World Test Championship. The point percentage of the team captained by … Read more
Adelaide, 8 December (IANS). After India’s 10-wicket defeat in the pickup ball test in Adelaide, Indian captain Rohit Sharma said about the return of Mohammed Shami that the doors of the team are completely open for him in Australia but he wants Shami to fully participate in the match. Return to the team only after … Read more
