Ishant Sharma on Monday attributed his remarkable longevity in the game to understanding what the "captain wants from him"
Brushing aside the incessant talk around spin-friendly pitches in India, big-hitting England all-rounder Ben Stokes has said that Test players should be proficient in handling all kinds of conditions
England fast bowler James Anderson might have torn apart India's batting line-up in first Test but the pacer doesn't expect reverse swing to play the same role in the pink-ball Test at Motera
Rahul Tewatia was told that he had been selected for the Indian team by his Haryana teammate Yuzvendra Chahal and the all-rounder wondered whether to take the news seriously at first
James Anderson is pretty sure that the newly laid track at the Motera Stadium will be devoid of any grass for the IND vs ENG Day/Night Test even though there is a nice green cover on it at the moment
After being criticised for ignoring Suryakumar Yadav for Australia tour despite his stellar performance in the 2020 Indian Premier League (IPL), the selectors included him in the 19-member squad
The four-match Test series is level at 1-1 heading into the day-night Test at the new 110,000-capacity Sardar Patel Stadium here
India all-rounder Hardik Pandya posted his picture with Motera Stadium in the background on social media and said it was a "surreal" experience to be at the world's largest cricket stadium
All-rounder Sam Curran will not be available for selection during England's fourth Test against India beginning here on March 4
England had won first of the four Tests before India came back into the series by winning the second Test by a record margin of 317 runs
Franchises were informed at a briefing in Chennai on Wednesday that the pacer had decided to pull out of the auction in order to spend time with his family at home
Whatever be the ICC's assessment of the pitch, India's points on the World Test Championship (WTC) table, on which Kohli's team is presently second, will not be deducted
Umesh Yadav last played a Test on India's the recent Australian tour
England's Test captain Joe Root said skipping the lucrative IPL auction for a third successive year was a "very difficult decision" and he made the call considering the national team's packed schedule
England captain Joe Root refused to blame their rotation policy and team selection for the crushing 317-run defeat to India in the second Test
Debutant left-arm spinner Axar Patel's five-wicket haul in the second innings, coupled with Ravichandran Ashwin's all-round performance, helped India score an authoritative 317-run win
The BCCI is also contemplating allowing spectators in the IPL, which is slated to begin in the second week of April
For off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, the game of cricket is everything, without which he says he feels literally lost.On Tuesday Ashwin revealed how he worked on his skills during the Covid-19 induced lockdown and he also touched upon how he was not desperate to succeed in the recent tour of Australia where India managed to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against-all-odds."Look, I think, the whole pandemic thing and the way we were shut off, I was thinking what is going to happen? If you take this game away from me, I am literally lost. Even when I am not playing some formats of the game, I am always switching the TV on like watching the preview and what is happening. I thought the game is not on anymore, I was reflecting upon myself and how I can learn from people. In the past when I have toured abroad, it was more of desperation to prove others wrong. But this time when I went to Australia, it was about proving to myself what I am capable of," Ashwin told Kohli in a video posted on ..
Sourav Ganguly, BCCI president has said that one pink-ball Test in every series is ideal and it will help bring crowds in large numbers for the longest format of the game
India all-rounder Axar Patel said that variation in speed helped him to get better of English batters on the spin-heavy pitch