Category: Cricket

Jasprit Bumrah of India (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images) Former India wicketkeeper-batter Deep Dasgupta has criticized the Indian cricket team’s decision to announce Jasprit Bumrah‘s limited availability of three Tests before the recent Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series in England, which ended in a 2-2 draw. Dasgupta believes this pre-series announcement was unnecessary and the team could […]

Matt Henry (X- Somerset Cricket) New Zealand’s fast bowlers dominated Zimbabwe on Day 1 of the second Test match in Bulawayo, with Matt Henry taking 5-40 and debutant Zakary Foulkes claiming 4-38 to dismiss the hosts for 125. The Kiwi opening pair of Will Young and Devon Conway then propelled their team to 174-1, establishing […]

Ishant Sharma (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: India’s World Cup-winning former coach Gary Kirsten has expressed his admiration for the manner in which Gautam Gambhir shepherded the team to a creditable 2-2 draw on the tough Test tour of England recently.India and England settled for a stalemate after five intensely fought Tests played across nearly […]

Virat Kohli and KL Rahul (Image credit: AFP) NEW DELHI: Indian pacer Harshit Rana recently opened up about a heated on-field exchange with Australian speedster Mitchell Starc during the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, where he peppered Starc with bouncers before dismissing him for 26 — all while receiving spirited backing from senior pros Virat Kohli and […]

India’s Dhruv Jurel (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) Dhruv Jurel has been appointed as captain of the Central Zone squad for the upcoming Duleep Trophy 2025-26 season, as announced on August 7, 2025. The wicketkeeper-batter, who recently played for India in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy at The Oval, will lead a 15-member squad that includes notable players like […]

Shubman Gill of India and Ben Stokes of England (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is not in favour of a two-division World Test Championship (WTC), especially if it risks England being placed in a different division from Australia or India. That could mean missing out on two of […]

India bowler Jasprit Bumrah (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images) Jasprit Bumrah recently found himself at the center of intense online criticism following India’s fiercely contested Anderson Tendulkar Trophy series against England, which ended in a dramatic 2-2 draw.Fans expressed frustration over Bumrah’s selective participation in only three of the five Tests and his Instagram post […]

Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah and KL Rahul. Despite the thrilling 2-2 result in the recently concluded Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, where India and England shared honours across five Tests, the deeper story showed India’s dominance. India won 33 sessions compared to England’s 21, with 18 sessions shared. Even with the success of the red-ball team, the T20 […]

Brendan Taylor, the Zimbabwe cricketer who debuted in 2004 against Sri Lanka, has marked his return to Test cricket after serving a three-and-a-half-year ban by the ICC on corruption charges. His comeback in the second Test against New Zealand has positioned him with the 12th-longest career in Test cricket history, spanning 21 years and 93 […]

Manchester: India’s batters KL Rahul and Shubman Gill during the fourth day of the fourth Test match between India and England, at the Old Trafford cricket ground, in Manchester, England. (PTI Photo/R Senthilkumar)(PTI07_26_2025_000546B) Former England and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) all-rounder Moeen Ali said that although Shubman Gill scored the most runs in the recently […]