'At Patna airport, met the young cricketing sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi and his family. His cricketing skills are being admired all over the nation! My best wishes to him for his future endeavours,' the prime minister tweeted.
Manjrekar pulled no punches, singling out Ravindra Jadeja for failing to exploit the Day 5.
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Suryavanshi, who was called up to India's U-19 squad after a standout performance in this year's Indian Premier League (IPL), needed only 52 balls to get to three figures.
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The Indian team also made history at Headingley in the series opener, with five centuries scored in a Test match.
IMAGES from Day 4 of the 1st Test between England and India at Headingley in Leeds on Monday.
"He has taken to Test cricket like duck to water," Nasser Hussain, who was on-air, said.
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A superb unbeaten century from Ollie Pope helped drag England back into the first Test against India at Headingley on Saturday, with the home side closing Day 2 on 209/3.
Gavaskar didn't mince words as he tore into India's sub-par work in the field, both in terms of dropped chances and overall outfielding.
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Conceding that India could not get the first innings score they were looking in the first Test against England, batting coach Sitanshu Kotak felt Rishabh Pant's stroke-filled 134 was different from his usual aggressive knock.
K L Rahul might be asked to keep wickets to bolster the batting.
'We picked a young team and looking at the way they played today, I think we have a special team.'
Aiden Markram hopes South Africa's ICC World Test Championship Final win over Australia has silenced any doubters and consigned their 'chokers' tag to history.
'We're witnessing the rise of a phenom.'
'I was preparing for this moment for a long time and I am happy that it worked out the way I wanted.'
K L Rahul would look to make the most of his first red-ball outing in months ahead of the upcoming Test series against England.
K L Rahul drove his way to a sublime 47 after England negated India's advantage by totalling 465 in their first innings as the visitors had another ordinary day in the field on Day 3 of the first Test in Leeds on Sunday.
Opener Ben Duckett hit the most defining century of his career, exposing an out-of-depth Indian attack as England comfortably chased down a tricky target of 371 to win the opening Test by five wickets.
Images from Day 4 of the second Test between England and India at Edgbaston, in Birmingham, on Saturday.
Royals invested in Suryavanshi's talent by spending Rs 1.10 crore at the mega auction last year, almost four times his base price of Rs 30 lakh.
His Bradmanesque sequence of scores in domestic cricket in recent years have mingled with the most testing time of his career, but Karun Nair picks the "end of 2022" as the toughest he has had to endure, describing it as "quite a dark place."
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After a hard day of toil, Pakistan were 9-2 in their second innings at stumps for a slender lead of 21 as they bid to level the two-match series after losing the first test by 10 wickets.
Suryavanshi has already played for India U-19s and made his first-class debut in January 2024.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the 1st Test between England and India at Headingley in Leeds on Saturday.
The squad also features Karun Nair, who returns to the national set up after a long gap of eight years.
'India captain Rohit Sharma pleaded guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no need for a formal hearing.'
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Reeza Hendricks and Dewald Brevis produced fireworks with the bat as MI Cape Town defeated Pretoria Capitals by 27 runs to send their opponents out of SA20's play-offs race in Centurion.
14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi became the youngest centurion in T20 cricket as he fired Rajasthan Royals to an emphatic eight-wicket victory over Gujarat Titans.
The cricket fraternity hailed India's maiden Test win at Centurion on Thursday, with Virat Kohli's bowling attack coming in for special praise from greats such as Sachin Tendulkar.
Raised by his mother Karen-Anne, Corbin and his younger brother Eathan, who also plays for South Africa, pursued cricket in honour of their late father's legacy.
Sai Sudharsan upstaged some of the world's top batters as he topped the run scoring charts, while Prasidh Krishna was the most successful bowler of the season.
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