The team received a warm welcome on their return to the country after retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma sustained a fracture in the middle finger during the second One-Day International against England at Cardiff.
Australian team's tempered on-field approach is a paradigm shift from earlier times but it's the quality of cricket which will decide the fate of the series, said India's head coach Ravi Shastri.
'My nature isn't such that I will harm anyone to the extent of ending someone's career. So on grounds of humanity looking at his/her family, I am not exposing the name for the time being.'
In his column for ESPNCricinfo, Chappell played down the role of a coach in any team, saying "if a coach is to be inflicted on a captain, it should be someone with whom he is comfortable".
As India lost the third Test to Australia, former coach Ravi Shastri slammed the team, stating overconfidence cost them the match in Indore.
Eyeing the batting coach's job are Lalchand Rajput, Pravin Amre, Mumbai stalwart Amol Muzumdar and Saurashtra's batting bulwark Sitanshu Kotak.
A testimony to KKR's problems has been the fact that 20 players have played in 12 games. There has not been a single game, where the playing XI has been retained, making the outfit look completely unsettled.
Dhoni had led India to the title victory at the inaugural T20 World Cup played in South Africa in 2007.
Zaheer Khan's appointment as bowling consultant of the Indian cricket team is also tour specific, just like batting consultant Rahul Dravid.
India skipper Virat Kohli's childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma feels the 32-year-old cricketer will be more "determined and focused" to win the upcoming T20 World Cup.
'We're excited about Rohit coming back. Spoke to him yesterday, he's waiting to join the team.'
The legendary Sunil Gavaskar said the Test series triumph in Australia last year ranks among the team's 'greatest wins' of all time and can be considered a golden chapter in the country's cricket history.
Criticising Duncan Fletcher's coaching reign between 2011-15, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has said that work ethic during the Zimbabwean's tenure was "pretty abysmal" as players reported late in practice sessions.
Suryakumar played an unbeaten knock of 79 runs against RCB as Mumbai Indians chased down a total of 165 with five wickets in hand and five balls to spare.
'We appointed the CAC as an ad-hoc body to specifically appoint the head coach of the men's national team. We as COA found that there was no Conflict of Interest'
'I think ODI cricket needs to find its relevance'
Kohli can be seen trying the Bottle Cap Challenge and Shastri's voice can be heard in the background.
The interviews for the rest of the support staff will be held on August 19.
India spinner Kuldeep Yadav was inundated with birthday greetings on Twitter.
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Indian cricketers spend time with Air Force pilots ahead of series decider
Ahead of the IPL, Indian coach Ravi Shastri had also expressed his concern for players full participation in the tournament.
Former India cricketer Robin Singh was on Thursday fined Rs 500 and his car impounded for allegedly violating lockdown rules in Chennai, police said. The 56-year-old former Tamil Nadu player had gone by car to purchase vegetables and was caught by local police for the violation.
India are likely to rest most of their senior players during the T20I series against New Zealand at home, which starts less than a week after the final of the T20 World Cup next month.
Shubman Gill had a good net session on Thursday and it is expected that he would be asked to open the innings alongside Mayank Agarwal if Prithvi Shaw is unable to make it for the second Test against New Zealand, starting in Christchurch on Saturday.
The 28-year-old all-rounder figures prominently in India's World Cup plans. Shankar has showed that he is a capable batsman, having scored 45 off 64 deliveries in a match-winning 98-run stand with Ambati Rayudu after the top-order collapse in the final ODI in New Zealand.
India's head coach Ravi Shastri says Hardik Pandya and K L Rahul needed 'the wrap on their knuckles', referring to the duo's sexist comments on a popular TV show.
The former captain's struggling innings of 51 off 96 balls and his failure to rotate the strike in the first ODI has brought to focus the rejigging that captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri will have to fret upon.
Shastri said Kohli at number 4 can make the batting unit more strong
In a nearly minute-long video posted on the BCCI's official Twitter handle, Kohli said Dhoni's retirement is that rare moment in his life when he doesn't have enough words to express his thoughts.
Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh will be among a host of former stars in the India Maharaja team which will take part in the inaugural edition of the Legends League Cricket (LLC), starting on January 20 in Oman.
Two India squads travelling to different places at the same time could become a norm in the mentally draining world of bio-bubbles that cricketers are forced to live in amid the COVID-19 pandemic, said India captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday.
BCCI President Sourav Ganguly on Thursday said Mahendra Singh Dhoni was appointed as mentor of the Indian team to use his vast experience for the benefit of the side during the upcoming T20 World Cup in the UAE.
'All of us tend to believe that they are so well paid, why should we bother about their payments.' 'But who all are well paid? Only a handful, maybe 3-4 of them, who go in for endorsements and things.' 'The others are struggling, playing Ranji Trophy and other matches, so that compensation we made it market-oriented.'
Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar said Test cricket needs to be more engaging along with ODI cricket, which is becoming a bit of a drag.
The fifth and final Test between India and England, which was suspended due to a COVID-19 outbreak in the visitors' camp last month, was on Friday rescheduled to July next year.
Dhoni's future has been a subject of intense speculation since India's World Cup semifinal loss to New Zealand on July 9.
>The Indian cricketers, who have been picked for next month's World Test Championship final against New Zealand and the five-Test series in England, are looking to get their first dose of the vaccine ahead of their trip to the UK.
