Coach Greg Chappell said he wanted to give all members of the squad a chance to show their mettle.
Former India all-rounder Ajay Jadeja says India should continue with Rahul Dravid as captain beyond the tri-series in Sri Lanka.
India coach Greg Chappell is eager to see his team get down to business
Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit an explosive 86 and Irfan Pathan captured four wickets as India beat Sri Lanka Cricket XI by 61 runs.
India's Australian coach said frequent negative comments are not helping the team.
The 36 probables went through batting, running, throwing and other cricket-related exercises on the second day of the skills camp.
India's new cricket coach said he would not hesitate to expand his support staff with experts from various fields.
Chappell would be arriving in Bangalore on Wednesday from Sydney to assume charge as coach.
Do you agree with the new Indian coach that Sachin Tendulkar will never be his devastating self again?
India's cricket coach Greg Chappell doubts whether Sachin Tendulkar can return to the dizzy heights of the past, but he says he will do everything possible to get the little master back on track.
The former India captain and ace batsman made the comment in a newspaper column on Sunday.
BCCI sources said while skipper Sourav Ganguly favours Chappell, vice-captain Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble prefer Moody for the India coach's job.
Ajinkya Rahane became the first fielder in Test history to take eight catches, achieving the feat in the ongoing first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Friday.
Graeme Smith and his men, says Allan Donald, were secure in the presumption that the first Test would be a one-sided affair.
The former Australia captain is looking forward to seeing the pace ace in action Down Under later this year.
Indian coach Greg Chappell said that Irfan Pathan was struggling because he was trying bit too hard
The Indian coach is not happy with his team's bowling in the initial overs.
Cricket Australia (CA) named Trevor Hohns as the full-time chairman of its National Selection Panel on Friday, effecting a structural change to improve the rankings of the underperforming Twenty20 side.
As he rang in his 50th birthday with friends and family in London, the BCCI president, and one of Indian cricket's most fascinating characters, spoke on a range of issues including multiple captains, workload management, huge media rights valuation and heading the board.
India's 1983 World Cup hero Yashpal Sharma died on Tuesday after suffering a massive cardiac arrest in New Delhi.
Paine stood down after Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper published alleged text message exchanges between him and an ex-Cricket Tasmania employee, claiming the co-worker had complained that he had sent an unsolicited picture of his genitals.
The Indian coach also said that the boys need to be extremely good fielders if they are to survive in international cricket.
India's coach says there is no time-frame to make the team world beaters.
The group has more than 9000 fans from across the state and the masks have been sent out to the members in various districts like Bardhaman, Asansol, Nadia, North, South 24 Parganas. They will be sporting the masks on Wednesday.
The batting ace said his shoulder is holding up quite nicely now.
Former Australian fast bowler Rodney Hogg has predicted that Test cricket will be extinct in next ten years after the recently-concluded World T20 in India received huge success.
Australian bowling coach Daryl Foster, who has been hired by Pakistan Cricket Board to train its fast bowlers, would arrive in Lahore on June 24.
The side, led by Jason Sangha, also includes Will Sutherland, son of Cricket Australia's (CA) chief executive James Sutherland. Sutherland Jr is the vice-captain of the side.
Rahul Dravid 'picked' the Australian 'brains' to create solid domestic structure which has served as a feeder line for his country's national team,
With Mahela Jayawardene named coach of Mumbai Indians on Friday, speculation is rife that former Australia skipper and the IPL franchise coach Ricky Ponting may be in contention for a big role in a revamped Australian cricket.
The IPL, by giving a large pool of Indian talent the opportunity to compete with the best international players, has also come to be seen as the cauldron that spews out the most exciting talent for not only the shortest format but also the longest and the one in between, says Suveen Sinha.
Cricket has few examples of players calling it quits when very much at the top their game. It is anything but coincidence that most of them happen to be from the most successful nation in the history of the sport.
How rare is it for two players to score hundreds on captaincy debut in the same series? Virat Kohli got two when he led India in the first Test against Australia in Adelaide. Now, Steven Smith got one in his first Test as captain in the ongoing second Test at Brisbane.
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