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Hyderabad: Virat Kohli has led the Royal Challengers Bangalore for the one final time on Monday in the Indian Premier League. Like an ardent RCB fan, Kohli also would have liked to end his captaincy stint on a high — with the trophy. However, as fate would have it, RCB crashed out once again in […]

Neeraj Chopra made history by becoming the first Indian to win Gold in track and field at the Olympic Games.

HarperCollins is also offering a special limited-time offer where readers can get a digitally signed copy by Ravi Shastri.

For Gavaskar, it's not just bowling but all-round abilities that give India the kind of balance they need going into a marquee match like this.

"Mohammed Siraj has gone from strength to strength after the tour of Australia and he was relentlessly at the batsmen even in the final over just as how he was at the first over of the innings," Gavaskar wrote

"Just 10-15 minutes with Ravi Shastri after a practice session. You know Ravi has got the ability to give so much confidence to youngsters, it's unbelievable," Gavaskar said.

Advent of T20 has led to the batsman learn new tricks to play innovative strokes

"I wouldn't have missed anything in the world. I'm a fan of Motganhalli Laxminarsu Jaisimha forever, Fan forever. For me to visit the academy to speak at the foundation about my hero is a great privilege and honour," he said.

Jai (ML Jaisimha) would have been absolutely over the moon, to how this Indian team has played, says Gavaskar

Bairstow had scores of 0, 0, 0 and 28 in the four innings that he played in England's 1-3 Test series defeat against India, prompting Gavaskar to comment that he looked "uninterested"

Captain Kohli and Rohit opened the innings for India in a T20I for the first time on Saturday and their 94-run stand helped India beat England by 36 runs and win the series.

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, who idolised Gavaskar during his growing up days, paid tributes to the legend on twitter. Tendulkar took to twitter writing, 50 years ago today, he took the Cricketing World by storm.

Mohammed Azharuddin makes a few interesting points on how to bat on these types of pitches

'The 1987 Bangalore wicket was worse than Motera where the ball turned and bounced,’ says VK Ramaswamy

Gavaskar said, I somehow don’t think he will now make a comeback in the Indian limited-overs team because India have found in Hardik Pandya the all-rounder at No.7

I am extremely impressed with Rishabh Pant's keeping today. I spent a lot of time with Ricky Ponting recently in Australia and he was praising Rishabh Pant's work ethic a lot.

I think the Steve Smith dismissal shows that even when the ball clips the stumps, its speed is so much that it can remove the bails, said Gavaskar

Indian team switches focus to red-ball cricket at MCG

While Mayank Agarwal too failed to contribute much with the bat, the clamour for Rohit Sharma as opener is growing. Joining them was Indian cricket great Sunil Gavaskar.

Adelaide [Australia], December 17 (ANI): Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting on Thursday said that he cannot wait to commentate alongside Sunil Gavaskar for the very first time. Gavaskar and Ponting would be commentating in the four-match Test series between India and Australia, which begins today. Ponting also predicted that Australia will win the four-match Test […]