Shreyas Iyer says India does not need to step away from the new batting philosophy that skipper Virat Kohli spoke about following the team's eight-wicket loss to England in the first T20I, in Ahmedabad, on Friday.
Pacers Anand Rajan and Ishwar Pandey shared six wickets between them as Madhya Pradesh registered a comfortable five-wicket win over Uttar Pradesh in their limited-overs Vijay Hazare Trophy Central Zone match, in Indore on Friday.
India international Ajinkya Rahane will lead the Mumbai team in the T20 tournament, which will be played in Indore from February 21 to 28.
Prithvi should bat just like he does for Mumbai in Ranji Trophy, said Rahane
Captain Steven Smith's domination reached new heights at the Melbourne Cricket Ground states Rajneesh Gupta
Tushar Deshpande held his nerve to help fashion a 13-run victory for Delhi Capitals against Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday night.
The master batsman made over 15 suggestions, and the prominent ones among them were no night-time travel, no bus journeys, and ensuring respectful exit for senior players.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's participation in the Asia Cup is in doubt after he suffered an injury during a training session in Dhaka on Monday.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's technical committee headed by Anil Kumble has decided that the National ODI Championship for the Vijay Hazare Trophy and the Deodhar Trophy (Inter-Zonal) one dayers will act as trial tournaments for the ICC World Cup scheduled in February-March 2015.
The match played at Just Cricket ground was reduced to 34 overs per side.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has indicated that this year's Indian Premier League could be conducted in empty stadiums, insisting that all possible options are being explored to ensure that the suspended event does take place despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to all the affiliated units sent late on Wednesday after the ICC Board meeting, Ganguly seemed confident of an IPL this year despite its current status of being indefinitely suspended because of the raging pandemic, which has claimed more than 8,000 lives in India.
Unmukt Chand has been drafted in as the 16th member of the North Zone side for the Deodhar Trophy inter-zonal limited overs tournament.
Gautam Gambhir (69) scored a confident half-century to complement the good bowling as Delhi thrashed Bengal by six wickets to enter the summit clash of the Vijay Hazare trophy in Visakhapatnam on Saturday.
Senior batsman Yuvraj Singh was dismissed for a first-ball duck as Kerala stunned Punjab by 46 runs in a quarter-final match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
Senior batsman Yuvraj Singh was dismissed for a first-ball duck as Kerala stunned Punjab by 46 runs in a quarter-final match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
Pacer Sumit Narwal claimed five wickets as Delhi thrashed Gujarat by eight wickets to storm into the semi-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Visakhapatnam, on Wednesday.
Minnows Assam stunned Madhya Pradesh by four wickets to enter the quarter-finals of the National One Day Championship for Vijay Hazare Trophy in Visakhapatnam.
India discard Yusuf Pathan played a captain's knock with a strokeful 116 as Baroda scored a narrow one-wicket win over Saurashtra in a thrilling high-scoring West Zone leg of the Vijay Hazare Trophy One-Day Championship match in Pune on Monday.
A "sad and hassled" Praveen Kumar refused to speak about the BCCI's suspension imposed on him, which bars the pacer from playing the inter-state Vijay Hazare Trophy matches for Uttar Pradesh.
In Thursday's IPL auction in Kolkata, his base prize was Rs 30 lakh but eventually was sold for Rs 4 crore to Kolkata Knight Riders.
The Jharkhand team has qualified for the knockout stages of the Ranji Trophy but till date Dhoni has not given any indication that he would like to play.
"There is currently an ICC Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) investigation underway in relation to the Ajman All Stars League held recently in Ajman, UAE," ACU general manager Alex Marshall said in a statement.
Defending champions Rajasthan and 39-time champions Mumbai are clubbed in a relative easy Group A for the upcoming Ranji Trophy, starting November 2. Group A, appears the easier of the Elite teams. Bengal, Hyderabad, Saurashtra, MP, Railways, Punjab and Gujarat are the seven other teams in it.
The former India captain not just rejected the accusations thrown at him but also offered a gentle reminder to his critics -- much before becoming the BCCI boss, he was a celebrated India cricketer and played in a whopping 424 international matches -- 113 of them Tests.
# Wriddhiman Saha and Virat Kohli put on 114-run partnership for the sixth wicket -- India's third best at Adelaide -- the top two are 188 between Vijay Hazare and Dattu Phadkar in January 1948 and 147 between Yashpal Sharma and Sandeep Patil in January 1981.
Rayudu had pulled out of the coming Ranji Trophy tournament attacking the Hyderabad Cricket Association
'We saw in the last game, he was trying to have a word or two with the batsmen and he enjoys being in a contest and that's is something I love, about him.'
The Indian T20 squad is an indication that selectors are looking at a specific short-term goal of winning the World T20 in March while the ODI squad is an indicator towards the core of the 2019 World Cup and Mahendra Singh Dhoni being a part of that side.
All-rounder Laxmi Ratan Shukla hit a magnificent century to single-handedly guide Bengal to a six-wicket victory over Mumbai in the final of the Vijay Hazare tournament in Delhi on Monday.
A relaxed Mahendra Singh Dhoni will take fresh guard when he leads his home team Jharkhand against Karnataka.
Railways wicketkeeper Mahesh Rawat set a national record in List A matches as he pouched seven catches during his team's match against Madhya Pradesh in the Central Zone leg of the Vijay Hazare competition at the VCA Stadium in Jamtha on Thursday. Railways dismissed MP for a paltry 48 and then won comfortably by nine wickets.
There are 19 players available for selection and with two in contention for each slot
In what turned out to be a complete mismatch, Mumbai on Saturday trounced a hapless Delhi by 140 runs and advanced to the final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Delhi eased their way into the semi-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, beating Railways by seven wickets in a quarter-final match, in Delhi, on Wednesday. Delhi will play Mumbai in the semi-final, on March 10.
Skipper Harbhajan Singh led from the front with a remarkable all-round effort to take Punjab to the quarter-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy after a thrilling two-wicket win over Maharashtra in New Delhi.
Abhinav Mukund (84) and Baba Aparajith (87) shone as Tamil Nadu thrashed Tripura by 187 runs
The BCCI issued a showcause notice to out-of-favour India player Dinesh Karthik for attending a promotional event of the Caribbean Premier League.
Delhi's strong batting line up of Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Steven Smith and Pant himself will look to fire on all cylinders right from the opening game.
Dasun Shanaka is their 10th captain in nearly five years, and barring a classy batsman like Dhananjaya de Silva and a steady pacer in Dishmantha Chameera, this team lacks quality to challenge the might of the Indian team led by Shikhar Dhawan.
KKR struggled for stability in the last edition in the UAE, while a change of captaincy at the halfway stage did not help them either.
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