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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 […]
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Ahmedabad: India leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal revealed that captain Rohit Sharma had told him to focus more on bowling googly ahead of the first ODI against the West Indies. In the match on Sunday, Chahal took 4/49 in 9.5 overs as West Indies were bowled out for just 176, which was chased down by India with […]
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Ahmedabad: On the back of a quick 60 from captain Rohit Sharma and an unbeaten stand of 62 for the fifth wicket between Suryakumar Yadav and Deepak Hooda, India scripted a six-wicket win over West Indies in the series opener at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday. India’s 1000th ODI appearance ended on a winning […]
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Ahmedabad: India’s new ODI captain Rohit Sharma on Saturday said that Ishan Kishan will open alongside him in the first ODI against the West Indies since the youngster is the only available option for the team with late entrant Mayank Agarwal serving mandatory quarantine period. Kishan was drafted into the ODI squad after Shikhar Dhawan […]
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Ahmedabad: India’s new ODI captain Rohit Sharma on Saturday said that Ishan Kishan will open alongside him in the first ODI against the West Indies since the youngster is the only available option for the team with late entrant Mayank Agarwal serving mandatory quarantine period. Kishan was drafted into the ODI squad after Shikhar Dhawan […]
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Dubai: Legendary Australian cricketer Ricky Pointing says he was ‘shocked’ at Virat Kohli recently stepping down from Test captaincy but suggested that he must have taken the decision in his bid to do better with the bat and break some records. Ponting, one of the most successful captains ever, hailed Kohli for his leadership skills, […]
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New Delhi: Citing Mahendra Singh Dhoni as example, Virat Kohli says one doesn”t need to be a captain of a team to be a leader and now that he is not the India skipper, he might contribute more as the side”s batting mainstay. Kohli shocked the cricketing world earlier this month when he stepped down […]
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New Delhi: India on Wednesday announced an 18-member squad for the upcoming ODI and T20I series against the West Indies, starting February 6. India’s white-ball captain Rohit Sharma has fully recovered from his injury and will lead the side. It would be the first series for Rohit as the full-time ODI skipper after he was […]
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New Delhi: India white-ball skipper Rohit Sharma on Wednesday cleared his fitness test and as a result, he will be available to lead the side in the upcoming white-ball series against West Indies, beginning February 9. Sources in the know of developments confirmed to ANI that Rohit has indeed passed his fitness test held at […]
