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Mohali: Ravindra Jadeja’s superb all-round show put India firmly on course for a big innings victory, his five-wicket haul helping the hosts end Sri Lanka’s first innings at 174 on the third day of the first Test here. With 400 runs behind India’s first innings score of 574, Sri Lanka, after following on, reached 10 […]
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On Friday, Warne died of a suspected heart attack while staying in a villa at Koh Samui Island in Thailand. Warne's sudden demise has left the cricketing world in a state of mourning, hours after another Australian great, wicketkeeper-batter Rodney Marsh died.
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Mohali: Hailed by many as the ”Last of the Mohicans” in cricket’s purest format, Virat Kohli will be focused on making his 100th appearance memorable while “white-ball legend” Rohit Sharma plots the demolition of an out-of-depth Sri Lanka as India’s 35th Test captain in the series-opener starting here on Friday. If one looks back at […]
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Mohali: India captain Rohit Sharma on Thursday lauded former skipper and batting mainstay Virat Kohli ahead of his landmark 100th Test, saying he deserves all the credit for putting the team in a good position in the format. Rohit will start his Test captaincy journey when he steps out to lead India against Sri Lanka […]
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Dharamsala: Fit-again India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja is relishing his new role of batting in the middle-order and thanked skipper Rohit Sharma for showing faith and promoting him up the order. The left-arm spin all-rounder returned to action after recovering from a knee injury, and in the second T20I against Sri Lanka he blasted his way […]
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New Delhi: Former India batter Mohammad Kaif on Sunday praised Rohit Sharma’s captaincy, saying that everything the right-handed batter is touching, is turning to gold. Kaif hailed Rohit’s moves of shifting Shreyas Iyer to No.3 in the ongoing T20I series against Sri Lanka in the absence of Virat Kohli. “Be careful to shake hands with […]
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Dharamsala: A reinvigorated India will look to pocket their second series win in as many weeks and build on the gains made from a drastic change in their batting approach in the second T20 International against Sri Lanka here on Saturday. India were forced to look in the mirror after their early exit from the […]
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Lucknow: India captain Rohit Sharma on Wednesday said becoming the skipper of India across all formats has meant that he has got many challenges to look forward to. On Saturday, with Sharma named as the Test captain of India in two-match Test series against Sri Lanka, it meant that the 34-year-old taking over the captaincy […]
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Kolkata: Finding the perfect combination can be tricky and there is no set formula, but India head coach Rahul Dravid says he and skipper Rohit Sharma are pretty clear about the team for the T20 World Cup in Australia in less than eight months’ time. The former captain, who took over from Ravi Shastri after […]
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Kolkata: After winning the third and final T20I against West Indies, Team India became the number one ranked side in the shortest format of the game. The triumph helped India overtake England at the top of the T20 team rankings, with Rohit Sharma’s side now matching the top rating of 269. While England and India […]
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New Delhi: With Rohit Sharma now Team India’s captain in all three formats with the announcement of his being test captain for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka, former India cricketer and North zone selector Sarandeep Singh has said that “he is right and obvious choice” after Virat Kohli stepped down as skipper of the […]
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New Delhi: Rohit Sharma was on Saturday appointed the new Test captain of the Indian team as selectors initiated the transition phase by dropping struggling veterans Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha and Ishant Sharma for the Sri Lanka series. The team management has decided to move on from Saha and 100-Test plus Ishant and […]
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Kolkata: Clinical in most aspects of the game so far, India will now hope that star batter Virat Kohli also regains his form when they take on a struggling West Indies in the potentially series-deciding second T20 International here on Friday. The touring West Indies side has been far from being at its best and […]
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Kolkata: In no mood to talk about the prolonged lean patch that Virat Kohli is enduring, India captain Rohit Sharma on Tuesday said “everything will fall in place” if the chatter around him stops. Ahead of the T20 series against the West Indies starting Wednesday, media queries were once again focused on Kohli’s batting form […]
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Kolkata: Flush with exciting talent and focused on the T20 World Cup in exactly eight months’ time, the Rohit Sharma-led Team India would be aiming to get its combinations right when it takes on the West Indies in a three-match series beginning here on Wednesday. India were the pre-tournament favourites but made a shocking group […]
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Ahmedabad: India”s middle-order issues in ODIs have been spoken about extensively for a long time but new captain Rohit Sharma was happy with the kind of effort put in by the likes of Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav in their 3-0 series win against the West Indies. Surya was in fine nick in the first two […]
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Kohli had last scored a century in 2019 against Bangladesh in a day-night Test at the Eden Gardens and since then the batter has failed to reach 100 in any format.
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Ahmedabad: India captain Rohit Sharma has won the toss and elected to bat first in the third and final ODI against the West Indies at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday. The pitch for the final match, effectively a dead rubber, is the one where India had won the second ODI on Wednesday. After winning […]
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Ahmedabad: Focus will be on vice-captain K L Rahul’s batting position on his return from a short break as a buoyant India aim for another demolition act against the West Indies in the second ODI to seal the three-match series here on Wednesday. The India spin duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Washington Sundar ran riot […]
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The Rohit Sharma-led team celebrated India’s 1,000th one-day international match on Sunday with an emphatic six-wicket win over West Indies in Ahmedabad. India has come a long way ever since they played their first one-day international match against England in Leeds in 1974. The first few years of India’s show in the ODIs were disastrous […]
