Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya will be an impact player for India in the ongoing T20 World Cup, India Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane said, urging the side to rally around the injury-ravaged cricketer whose role as a bowler is uncertain due to fitness issues.
With an eye on the gruelling Australia series that follows the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League, the Indian Tests specialists including Cheteshwar Pujara and Hanuma Vihari have begun preparations for the pink ball Test against Australia at the ICC Academy in Dubai, from Friday evening.
The wait finally ended for Cheteshwar Pujara as he had his first batting stint in Australia during India's net session in Sydney on Thursday.
A ship-to-shore version of the supersonic Brahmos missile was successfully test-fired in the Andamans on Wednesday. The Defence Ministry announced that the missile with a range of more than 290 km was launched from the deck of the Russian acquired missile destroyer INS Rajput and precisely hit a land target in one of the islands.
Sri Lanka named a 16-member team for the upcoming Test series against India with uncapped 23-year-old fast bowler Vishwa Fernando the only fresh face picked by the national selectors.
Indian team vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane, senior batsman Rohit Sharma and pacer Shardul Thakur arrived in Chennai on Tuesday for the first two Tests against England.
Australia included uncapped pacers Josh Hazlewood and Peter George, while opener Phillip Hughes made a comeback from injury, for the upcoming Test series against India.
The Pakistan pacer is set to miss the upcoming three-Test series against India after failing to recover from his elbow injury.
Rahane said Virat Kohli and his men are taking the match as just another game.
Retired English cricketer Kevin Pietersen says blaming the Indian Premier League for India's shambolic performance in the recently-concluded five-Test series against England is a 'cheap shot'. India were twice beaten by an innings as England won the five-Test series 1-3.
Both Avesh and Washington sustained their injuries while turning up for County XI in the first-class warm-up game against their own side. This was done after multiple players in the home team were ruled out either due to injury or because of COVID-19 isolation.
In reply, one of his followers tweeted that the series be named after Panesar and Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh.
"After almost three years without missing a Test match, I've now picked up three irritating niggles in the space of seven months and the back spasm that has ruled me out of the Lord's Test is the most annoying of all," Hoggard told The Times.
A round-up of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 matches on Tuesday.
His place in the 13-man squad for the match starting on Thursday at Lord's goes go Hampshire seamer Chris Tremlett.
Natarajan was added to the Test squad for the remaining two Test matches against Australia on January 1.
In a statement by BCCI secretary Jay Shah, 'the move was made considering the monsoon season in India in the months of September-October this year'.
One man's loss is another man's gain. Abhimanyu Mithun and Wriddhiman Saha must be thanking their stars after making it to the 15-man squad for the first Test against South Africa, beginning in Nagpur on February 6.
'We have seen both teams not having played Test matches for a couple of months. So, it is a one-off. Anything can happen. I will sit on the fence'
Out-of-favour Australia opener Simon Katich has directly approached national selector John Inverarity to know whether he is being considered for the first Test match against India, starting on December 26.
The test launch was conducted from INS Subhadra, about 40 nautical miles from Chandipur in the sea, at around 2.30 pm, sources said.
'I'm playing for the first time with pink ball, so I can't really say what the challenges would be, but yes whatever little I have faced in the nets, it does seam quite a bit.'
India Hanuma Vihari was signed up by Warwickshire as cover for Pieter Malan after the South African faced difficulties in obtaining a visa due to travel restrictions imposed in view of the raging COVID-10 pandemic.
Raman's crisp letter to the two former captains is sure to ruffle a few feathers
India on Monday successfully test-fired its nuclear capable 'Prithvi-II' ballistic missile, with a range of 350 kms, as pa rt of user trial by the armed forces from Chandipur off Orissa coast.
Ravichandran Ashwin won the ICC men's Player of the Month for February 2021, following his impressive performances in India's Test series victory against England.
'He has supported me through thick and thin. He has always been there for me and in all circumstances.'
Former India women's coach W V Raman says the 25-year-old is a good reader of the game and has already played few years of cricket.
Shaw dealt with a career hiccup after inadvertently ingesting a prohibited substance, commonly found in cough syrups.
He said he took help from a spiritual guru after he lost his mother when he was only 17.
Former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh also made his anger known.
Senior pro Shikhar Dhawan was delighted with his young opening partner Prithvi Shaw's smashing comeback with the bat in the IPL opening match.
All-rounder Jadeja will miss the first two Tests after fracturing his thumb in Australia and left-arm wristspinner Kuldeep Yadav is not a certainty in India's slow bowling attack led by off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.
The test of the indigenously built Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile was carried out from a mobile launcher at about 1006 hrs from launch pad-4 of Integrated Test Range at Wheelers Island near Dhamra, about 80 km from Balasore in Orissa, defence sources said.
A summary of the first day's proceedings in the Ranji Trophy matches across the country.
Sri Lanka off-spinner Tharindu Kaushal has been reported for a suspect bowling action during the third Test against India, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Wednesday.
'Happy Birthday to a wonderful selfless cricketer, his contributions cannot be measured only in runs.'
India's bowling coach Bharat Arun hailed Mohammed Siraj for his impressive showing with the ball in Australia, saying that the young pace bowler has both the anger and hunger to succeed at the highest level.
Emotions were still too raw in the wake of the death of Phillip Hughes to make a decision on whether to go ahead with next week's first Test against India, Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said on Friday.
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