India's young bowling unit will have to push behind the timid show in the series opener and find its flow against a forceful Australian batting line-up in the second T20 in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.
Images from India vs Australia 3rd T20 International in Guwahati on Tuesday.
American Rai Benjamin got the track programme off to a roaring start as he stunned world record-holder Karsten Warholm in the 400 metres hurdles.
Dasun Shanaka led from the front with a scintillating half-century as Sri Lanka edged World champions Australia by four wickets in the third and final Twenty20 International to avoid a series whitewash, in Pallekele, on Saturday.
This is India's second appearance in the WTC final after losing the inaugural game in 2021 to New Zealand.
'It is flabbergasting to think that this heavenly region has, for decades, been coveted by India's aggressive neighbours,' says Claude Arpi after a recent visit to Ladakh. 'Wanting to use the newly created infrastructure to defend the borders after the clash of 2020 with China and the resulting standoffs, the home ministry is keen to boost border tourism to show that these areas are controlled by India.'
Will Australia become the first team to win back-to-back T20 World Cups?
Batting first after losing the toss, Sri Lanka started sluggishly and were reduced to 51-4 at the halfway mark of their innings after Richardson claimed two early wickets.
'Just because of the nature of how good those bowling attacks were they probably embellished it a bit. So, you wouldn't want to play on it every day, but I think for occasional Test matches it's not the worst thing.'
Steve Smith will lead Australia in the fourth and final Test against India as regular captain Pat Cummins remains with his unwell mother back home.
Stars like Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer will miss the season due to injuries.
The visiting English team didn't appeal but Wade said had they done that, he would not have protested.
Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela soared to her fourth consecutive world triple jump title on Friday.
Forty years after its first edition, the world athletics championships get underway in Budapest on Saturday with over 2,000 athletes from 202 countries taking part over nine days of what could be record-breaking action.
IMAGES of the T20 World Cup warm up match played between India and Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane on Monday
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Maxwell said that the clash was unavoidable due to changes in the schedule.
Opener David Warner and all-rounder Mitch Marsh will be rested for the five-match Twenty20 International series against Sri Lanka next month to prepare for the upcoming tour of Pakistan.
Jhye Richardson scalped five wickets in the second innings as Australia defeated England by 275 runs in the second Ashes Test. With this win, Australia has gained a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
Steve Smith will lead Australia against India in the upcoming three-match ODI series as regular captain Pat Cummins, who lost his mother recently, will not return for the white-ball contest.
England are second-bottom in the World Test Championship standings, above Bangladesh.
Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez completed Spain's domination of the race walks at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday.
Along with Salman Khan's Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan and Keanu Reeves' action blockbuster John Wick: Chapter 4, we have Nawazuddin Siddiqui's rom-com Tiku Weds Sheru releasing on OTT this week and much more.
Shikhar Dhawan-led side was ruled to be one over short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration.
Alice Capsey brought up the joint-fastest half-century at a Women's T20 WorldCup during her stunning knock
'He's arguably the best Twenty20 batter in the world over a long period of time. His record's so good and he's our captain, so maybe that's what's going on off-field but in our heads we just trust him'.
ICC expecting full crowds for at least first four days of WTC final at Oval
IMAGES from Day 4 of the 2nd Ashes Test Day-Night Test at Adelaide Oval on Sunday.
India's boxer Amit Panghal (51kg) displayed his class as he reached his second consecutive Commonwealth Games final, while Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) also remained on course for a gold in her maiden appearance in Birmingham on Saturday.
However, it remains to be seen how RCB will cope without players like Rajat Patidar and Josh Hazlewood, who both have been sidelined for at least the first half of this IPL due to injuries. Australian Glenn Maxwell is also unlikely to feature in Sunday's game.
Australia eased to a six-wicket victory against Sri Lanka in the fourth Twenty20 international in Melbourne on Friday, barely needing to shift out of first gear as they heaped misery on the tourists who have yet to register a win in the five-game series.
Rohit Sharma will be looking to get his act together as batter and skipper when his star-studded Mumbai Indians take on an astute Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings in what could be safely billed as a Saturday night IPL blockbuster.
The International Cricket Council's (ICC) chief executive Manu Sawhney will step down with immediate effect, four months after he was sent on leave following an investigation into his style of working.
India pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was on Monday nominated for the ICC 'Player of the Month' award for August following his brilliant performances with both the bat and ball in the ongoing Test series against England.
Megan Jones and Celia Quansah, a same-sex couple, will compete together at the Tokyo Olympics.
After Imtiaz Patel turned down the offer to take over as International Cricket Council's next chief executive officer, South Africa's former selection committee convenor Haroon Lorgat leads the race for the job, according to reports.
Punjab Kings will play their first game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 later on Monday against the Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Australian cricketers, including big buys Glenn Maxwell and Jhye Richardson, are going to be part of the action.
Singapore-born all-rounder Tim David has been named in Australia's Twenty20 World Cup squad, while leg spinner Mitchell Swepson was omitted, Cricket Australia said on Thursday.
Legal experts have been advocating for years the need to criminalise match-fixing in India, the lack of which has meant that the hands of authorities have been tied when it comes to investigating corruption in the popular sport.
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