A round-up of the Ranji Trophy quarter-final matches played on Monday.
Haryana will meet the winners of the second semi-final between Rajasthan and Karnataka to be played in Rajkot on Thursday.
Green top scored for Australia scoring 61 off 30 balls hitting eight fours and four sixes. Matthew Wade too scored an unbeaten 45 off 21 balls to take the World Champions across the finish line.
Mushfiqur Rahim's brain-fade moment led to his obstructing-the-field dismissal but Bangladesh took charge of the second Test against New Zealand after 15 wickets tumbled on a frenzied opening day of the contest on Wednesday.
Images from Day 2 of the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's on Friday, June 3, 2022.
Jemimah Rodrigues's vital knock on return to secure a convincing 34-run victory
Shreyas Iyer revealed he tried to convince the stand-in-captain Jasprit Bumrah to let him have a bowl in the first T20 International against Sri Lanka in Lucknow on Thursday.
Glenn Maxwell and Steve Smith struck half-centuries as Australia beat Sri Lanka by two wickets in a thrilling finish to the rain-affected first One-Day International on Tuesday for a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.
With more than a 100 runs still to get, it would be an uphill task for Maharashtra to turn the match around on Day 3.
India defeated West Indies by six wickets in the first ODI to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
With pacer Jofra Archer, opener Rory Burns and star all-rounder Ben Stokes back in the England squad, the visitors are likely to have some competition for spots in the team for the 1st Test against India.
Table toppers Karnataka suffered a batting collapse as they were bowled out for 200 by Saurashtra on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group B cricket match in Patiala on Tuesday.
Images from Day 1 of the first Test match between England and Pakistan in Manchester, on Wednesday.
Indian spin troika of Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin and Amit Mishra kept their stranglehold on the inexperienced West Indies Board President's XI to bowl them out for a paltry 180 on the first day of the final warm-up game in Basseterre (St Kitts).
The match ended after New Zealand scored 133 for 4 in their second innings.
We need to use Powerplay more effectively: Suryakumar Yadav
Flamboyant all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has been named as India's Most Valuable Player (MVP) in Test cricket in the 21st century by Wisden magazine. With an MVP rating of 97.3, the 31-year-old Jadeja was also rated as the second Most Valuable Player in Tests worldwide, behind only Sri Lanka legend Muttiah Muralitharan.
India, who finished on 240-8, are missing key white-ball players who are in Australia for the Twenty20 World Cup.
IMAGES from Day 3 of the 3rd Test played between Australia and Pakistan at SCG on Friday.
India's Harleen Deol and Jemimah Rodrigues made substantial gains in the ICC women's player rankings for batters released on Tuesday.
Wickets fell at a steady rate thereafter, with Jayasuriya striking three times, claiming the wickets of Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam and Sarfaraz Ahmed to leave Pakistan struggling at 101 for five.
A popular Chinese green like bok choy does very well in soup too.
The home side won by 98 runs to take a 2-0 lead in the seven-match series against Zimbabwe.
Indian cricket fraternity praised the team after its massive win over arch-rivals Pakistan
Root rescues England with controlled century in India
Pooran Or De Kock? Dhawan or Pandya? Whose batting topped Saturday's contest?
A round-up of Ranji semi-finals played on Tuesday
Pakistan's senior all-rounder, Mohammad Hafeez is expected to fly to Chennai on December 25th for his bowling action test at the International Cricket Council bowling centre.
Axar Patel made an expected comeback to the side for the first two Tests against England.
In the current scenario, form in the IPL will carry a lot of weight for selection in the Indian team bound for USA and Caribbean.
Ben Stokes and his team-mates have their task cut out as they look to emulate Alastair Cook-led England's historic India series win in 2012.
Statistical highlights on day 3 of the first Test between India and New Zealand in Kanpur on Saturday.
Tammy Beaumont and Nat Sciver's aggressive unbeaten fifties beat India Women by eight wickets
Images from the first One-Day International between South Africa and India, in Paarl, on Wednesday.
New Zealand registered a 13-run win over the West Indies in the first T20I to take 1-0 lead.
IMAGES from the ICC World Cup match between Pakistan and South Africa, in Chennai, on Friday.
Australia's dramatic collapse against South Africa at the weekend has drawn inevitable comparisons with their previous Test defeat but vanquished coach Darren Lehmann says the two losses were vastly different.
Rahul bemoans batting failures in ODI loss to South Africa
Images from the first One-Day International between India and Sri Lanka, in Colombo, on Sunday.
Pakistan captain Azhar Ali "missed a trick" several times in the opening Test against England and their three-wicket loss will hurt the team and their fans, according to bowling great Wasim Akram. Ali and his men held the upper hand for most part of the series opener and had England, chasing 277 for victory, reeling at 117-5 at Old Trafford before England fought back.
