Broken foot, unbroken in spirit: Pant gives update
Sunil Gavaskar slams England's 'fake bravado' after Manchester draw
As India head into a series-deciding fifth Test, questions over Gambhir's tactics and temperament are growing louder.
'...I thought Test cricket was gone. To be back involved is really cool and I've got to try and enjoy each day that I get.'
'I wanted a player of his calibre to take on one of the strongest sides in the country.' 'However, he stuck to his guns, and we had an argument.'
Bumrah's pace has dropped noticeably in the ongoing fourth Test against England in Manchester - from his usual 140kph to the 130-135kph range. While he consistently touched 140-plus at Headingley and Lord's, Old Trafford has told a different story.
Pacer Anshul Kamboj has been added to the India squad in England as cover for Akash Deep and Arshdeep Singh
Jasprit Bumrah had made himself available for three of the five Tests in England and the Indian team management felt it was right to honour the star pacer's call considering his workload, said assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate.
Boycott defends Jadeja, Sundar for declining draw offer; slams England's bowling
India's K L Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja will be eager to put their best foot forward and etch their name in the record books in the fourth Test at Manchester.
Rishabh Pant walked out to bat on Day 2 despite fracturing his toe.
So far in the four matches of the ongoing five-match series against the Three Lions, India Test captain Shubman Gill has managed to score 722 runs in the eight innings at an average of 90.25.
On Tuesday evening, Gill led his team and support staff into West Yorkshire, travelling via a special train arranged from London.
Glimpses from around the world that will make you smile and cry.
After hundreds upon hundreds of runs on flat tracks in the ongoing series so far, it took the green top at The Oval to finally produce the best day of the Indian summer, on the fifth and last Friday of the Test series.
Across five fiercely contested Tests, more than 7,000 runs were scored, including a record-equalling 21 individual centuries. Every match stretched into a gripping fifth day. The sun shone, the stands were full, and the cricket -- emotional, enthralling, and endlessly unpredictable -- captured imaginations around the world.
Pathan expressed his admiration for Bumrah but acknowledged that he has to give his all and put in extra effort if the situation demands it.
India may have made tactical errors, but former cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar believes the bigger culprit was the weather.
The former India wicketkeeper believes the game still had some cricket left in it and that India had earned the right to continue batting.
How the Indian players fared in the five-Test series in England.
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England lead 2-1 in the series and victory at Old Trafford would seal it.
Kumble suggested that Bumrah could manage his workload by skipping India's upcoming home series instead.
'He is one of the most valuable players in India.'
Shubman Gill had a phenomenal Test series against England, leading a young Indian side in transition to a 2-2 draw and earning the Player of the Series award.
He felt sticking to the old rules "is intentionally depleting a contest by making one of the teams effectively play with 10 men for four days of the match, on the back of bad luck".
Going into the penultimate game of the rubber, the pressing question is whether to tweak their conservative approach and bolster the spin department by playing left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav at the cost of a spin all-rounder.
India and England players will push their tired bodies on the line with everything to play for in the fifth and final Test starting at The Oval on Thursday
Team India wasted no time in getting their preparations underway as they kicked off their first training session at Lord's a few hours after their arrival in London on Saturday.
Shubman Gill walked out at Edgbaston with questions swirling around his captaincy - and answered them with his bat
"If anyone doubted he was ever a team man, they got to see it first-hand today. That requires more than just steel," Shastri said in a video posted by the BCCI on its website.
Shane Filan, one of the main leads of the popular 1990s Irish boyband Westlife, was in the stands at Old Trafford, watching his favourite club Manchester United held to a 2-2 draw by Tottenham Hotspur.
'...he's not shown any obvious signs of dismissal and he's played stylishly.'
Joe Root produced a batting masterclass on way to a milestone 38th hundred as England exploited a jaded Indian bowling attack to stamp their dominance on the fourth Test in Manchester.
Former England captain David Gower said the mercurial Rishabh Pant performs what 'others can only dream of and takes incredible to another level.'
It took eight years for Karun Nair to don India jersey again but 25 days into his second coming in Test cricket, the Karnataka batter could well have played his last international game
'He is one of the most complete cricketers you will ever see.'
Women's cricket team gets rousing welcome at India House in London
The Kamakhya temple, located at a distance of 7 km from Guwahati, is one of the biggest Shakti shrines in the country. It is situated on the Nilachal hills.
Sophie Ecclestone returns as England announce squad for T20Is against India
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