Category: Cricket

In a dramatic twist since last night the Committee of Administrators (CoA) has asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) management to close out the selection process for Team India’s head coach today. Earlier, on Monday, the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman besides Ganguly, had put the appointment of next India […]

India’s selectors have recalled middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma and uncapped allrounder Hardik Pandya to the Test squad for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. The series comprises three Tests, five ODIs and one T20I. The first Test starts in Galle on July 26, followed by matches at the SSC in Colombo from August 3 and Pallekele from August 12. The […]

India’s top-scorer Dinesh Karthik rued the dropped catches that proved decisive in his team’s nine-wicket loss to the West Indies in a one-off Twenty20 match, acknowledging a chance that he himself spilt. In the sixth over, Lewis went for a lofted straight drive off Bhuvneshwar Kumar but a mix-up between skipper Virat Kohli and Mohammad Shami saw the opportunity go […]

Former team director Ravi Shastri will be the front-runner when the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) meets in Mumbai on Monday to scrutinise candidates for the high-profile job of Indian men’s cricket team coach. For the record, BCCI received 10 CVs — Shastri, Virender Sehwag, Tom Moody, Richard Pybus, Dodda Ganesh, Lalchand Rajput, Lance Klusener, Rakesh Sharma (Oman national team […]

Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten century enroute to India’s thrilling eight-wicket-win over hosts West Indies in the fifth and final ODI in order to clinch the series 3-1. In doing so, Virat Kohli also notched up his 18th successful ODI century during a chase and surpassed Sachin Tendulkar’s record. The master blaster now has the most successful ODI hundred in […]

MS Dhoni is celebrating his 36th birth anniversary today. The legendary wicketkeeper-batsman was born in Ranchi, Jharkhand (then Bihar) on July 7 in 1981. Dhoni made his international debut at the age of 23 when he was handed the ODI cap No.157 against Bangladesh in December 2004. Dhoni is the only captain to win all three ICC trophies — 50-over […]