Captain Rohit Sharma's return will certainly give solidity to the top order in the second ODI against Australia.
Winless after four games, Mumbai Indians will be desperate to reverse the trend when they face Punjab Kings in the IPL 2022 match in Pune on Wednesday.
India captain KL Rahul said he trusted his batting unit to do the job for the side despite losing seven wickets while chasing a modest 145 on day four of the second and final Test against Bangladesh.
When AB de Villiers is in full flow, no target is beyond him. Rajasthan Royals discovered it the hard way when de Villiers came up with an incredible exhibition of strokeplay in the death overs to take Royal Challengers Bangalore to a seven-wicket victory from a difficult position.
How Rishabh Pant performs as skipper will be watched with interest
While Rajasthan, placed second in the standings, have lost only two games and won six, Mumbai are already out of contention for a play-off berth
Hardik Pandya's leadership skills and India's overall World Cup preparedness will be under focus
The Ajinkya Rahane-led West Zone were 268 for five when the match ended
India's batting megastars will be desperate to clear the cobwebs from their head in pursuit of a second successive World Test Championship final berth as they take on Australia in the series-deciding fourth Test in Ahmedabad from Thursday.
Intense bidding is expected to be the order of the day when 10 teams jostle to grab their preferred players in the IPL players' auction in Kochi on Friday.
Rajasthan Royals may need to rejig their Indian line-up slightly when they try to pull their IPL campaign out of the current rot against a supremely confident Mumbai Indians,
IMAGES from the IPL match played between Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants in Mumbai on Sunday.
Virtually out of the play-off race and struggling on multiple fronts, a horribly out-of-sorts Mumbai Indians will need a special team effort to arrest their slide when they take on Lucknow Super Giants in a return-leg IPL fixture in Mumbai on Sunday.
While batting, Rahul showed great finesse and class to score an unbeaten century; He was equally adept while marshalling his troops, making the right bowling changes to successfully defend the total.
The stage will also be set for Virat Kohli to score his first Test hundred since November 2019.
West Zone thrashed South Zone by 294 runs to win the 2022 Duleep Trophy in Coimbatore on Sunday, completing the formalities before lunch on the fifth and last day's play.
At the end of third day's play, West Zone were 376 for 3, courtesy Jaiswal's unbeaten 209 off 244 balls
Stand-in skipper KL Rahul admitted that India missed the services of Kuldeep Yadav in the second innings of the second and final Test against Bangladesh.
Former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni showed he has lost none of his finishing prowess by fashioning a final-ball victory for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL 2022 match at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Thursday.
Australia's blockbuster four-Test series against India will be the greatest challenge Pat Cummins has faced in his young captaincy as he looks to conquer the "final frontier".
Jason Holder and Ravi Bishnoi struck in the 15th and 16th overs to dismiss the duo and all MI's hopes went up in smoke.
Suryakumar took charge with MI tottering at 79 for 6 and added 72 off 41 balls with Jaydev Unadkat (13 no off 14 balls).
RR will have to get their combination right as only four foreigners can make the playing XI.
IMAGES from the IPL 2022 game between Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants, in Mumbai, on Saturday.
Liam Livingstone and Evin Lewis's explosive batting will meet its match in Chris Gayle's power and KL Rahul's finesse when Rajasthan Royals lock horns with Punjab Kings to improve upon their mid-table position in the Indian Premier League in Dubai on Tuesday.
Former head coach Ravi Shastri on Friday said that Indian cricket would become "spineless" if the currently postponed Ranji Trophy is ignored.
The 48-year-old former pacer from Wales, had previously served as the team's fast bowling coach in 2019.
The four-Test Border Gavaskar Trophy that promises a lot of twists and turns, engrossing sub-plots and probably career-defining performances.
It proved to be a good toss to lose for Saurashtra, who succeeded in removing the most impactful Vidarbha batsmen -- Jaffer (23) and captain Faiz Fazal (16) -- cheaply.
Saurashtra, led by the inspirational Jaydev Unadkat, will back themselves to win an elusive Ranji Trophy title at home but a buoyant Bengal will be no pushovers in what promises to be an absorbing final beginning, in Rajkot, on Monday. Both the teams are desperate to go all the way with Saurashtra reaching their fourth final in eight seasons while Bengal has not tasted success in the premier domestic event since the 1989-90 triumph.
While Royals' squad completed its day 1 testing as per BCCI's Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) at the airport itself, KXIP went for a repeat test on Friday.
Abhimanyu Easwaran, who made a brilliant 153 for India Red, was named player of the match.
A summary of Ranji matches played on Tuesday.
SunRisers Hyderabad has the biggest purse while Kolkata Knight Riders has the slimmest purse.
Ranji Trophy, India's premier tournament which was cancelled for the first time in 87 years in 2020, has been planned between December and March in the upcoming season.
A look at what the IPL teams and players are doing to support the people of India in this massive battle against the deadly coronavirus.
Rajasthan Royals have moved on from the Jos Buttler 'Mankading' incident and the focus is strictly on winning their next IPL encounter against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Hyderabad on Friday, says seamer Jaydev Unadkat.
Devdutt Padikkal stroked a sparkling 63 from 45 balls, inclusive of a six and six fours, to propel RCB to a comprehensive eight-wicket victory against Rajasthan Royals.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 'is still hungry' and Chennai Super Kings stay afloat in IPL 2022 after the legend's latest Houdini act at the death. And they are all that matter to skipper Ravindra Jadeja.
The weak link for Royals, over the years, has been their Indian pace attack
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