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Mumbai: Lalit Yadav played the innings of his life with an unbeaten 48 while Axar Patel smashed 38 not out off just 17 balls as a depleted Delhi Capitals started their IPL campaign with a stunning four-wicket win over Mumbai Indians here on Sunday. Chasing a challenging 178, Delhi were down 72 for 5 inside […]
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Bengaluru: India declared their second innings at 303 for 9 during the final session of the second day to set Sri Lanka a mammoth target of 447 runs to win the second Test here on Sunday. India made the declaration when Axar Patel was out for 9 after India had played 68.5 overs in their […]
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Bengaluru: India were bowled out for 252 in their first inning by Sri Lanka at dinner break despite a brilliant innings by Shreyas Iyer (92 off 98) on the opening day of the second and final Test (pink ball game) at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, here on Saturday. Resuming the second session at 93/4, runs came […]
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Bengaluru: India vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah feels that cricketers need to make a few “mental adjustments” going into a ”Pink Ball” Test but defining one set parameter for that is not possible since all three day-night games they have played in the past were in varied conditions. “As professional cricketers, we need to adjust as quickly […]
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Bengaluru: Fit-again all-rounder Axar Patel has replaced left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav for India’s second Test against Sri Lanka, beginning here on Saturday. The Indian team management has released Kuldeep from the squad. Axar had been recovering from a shin injury that had forced him to miss the South Africa tour and the T20 series […]
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Karnataka cricketer is in quarantine now and is likely to miss the season opener
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Patel is the second IPL player to have returned a positive report after Nitish Rana.
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England dominated the first two sessions and India looked in all sorts of trouble before Pant (101 off 118 balls) suddenly decided to catch the opposition by the scruff of their necks
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Root’s team surrenders momentum as Axar, Ashwin help hosts dominate Day One.
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Washington Sundar was the other spinner to bag a wicket to make it eight for the three slow bowlers. Pacer Mohammed Siraj, who was preferred to Umesh Yadav for this Test, took the other two wickets.
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England had chosen to bat after winning the toss, with Root hoping that they could put as many runs on the board before the pitch would start assisting spin.
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Kohli's men aim to realise their World Test championship dreams of meeting Kiwis in Lord's
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India won the day-night third Test by 10 wickets inside two days to take a 2-1 lead in the four-match series.
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He played a perfect fiddle to Ravichandran Ashwin in the second Test to turn the result in India’s favour.
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“Loved watching Axar Patel bowl. He was able to just hit the shiny side of the ball and get a few to go off the wicket," he said.
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Rohit attributed his sublime first innings half-century to the positive intent that he displayed during the day-night third Test in which England got thrashed by 10 wickets
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Axar, playing in just his second Test, scalped five wickets on the second day of the day-night Test. This was Axar's third five-wicket haul in a row as he had scalped six in the first essay
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Visitors shot out for 112; Rohit Sharma stands firm as India reach 99/3 on Day One.
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Wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant, all-rounder Axar Patel and pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar also returned to a fresh-looking squad.
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There were questions raised about excluding Kuldeep Yadav. The cricket pundits hit out at the team management for not going ahead with the chinaman bowler, especially after Nadeem failed to make an impression.