Paceman Ajit Agarkar says his fine performance on the West Indies tour will mean little to him when he bowls in the Unitech Cup cricket tri-series.
Questions are mounting on when the 37-year-old India captain will finally call time on his Test career.
India claimed a memorable four-wicket victory at Adelaide Oval, on December 16, 2003 -- their first Test win on Australian soil in 22 years.
The Indian pacer took 3 wickets for 41 runs in the County Championship Division One match against Gloucestershire.
Mumbai pacer Ajit Agarkar has been fined 50 per cent of his match fees for showing dissent after being given out during his side's ongoing Ranji Trophy final against Karnataka at the Gangotri Glades in Mysore.
The firebrand Gautam Gambhir announced his arrival as India's head coach by successfully ensuring the ascension of Suryakumar Yadav as the new T20 captain in place of Hardik Pandya
Also the temperament of playing 373 balls (62.1 overs out of 116 overs) has made him stand out along with how he forged partnership with a tailender (Navdeep Saini).
The brief chat between Rohit and Rinku sparked curiosity.
Kirti Azad made a major disclosure that BCCI secretary Jay Shah wanted Virat Kohli out of the Indian team for the T20 World Cup.
Rinku, who is not having a great IPL season as he is not getting to face enough balls, though made it to the list of reserves.
In the eye of storm for returning home after being excluded from playing XI against Orissa, veteran pacer Ajit Agarkar has made himself unavailable for Mumbai's next encounter against Saurashtra at Rajkot starting from December 6.
Hardik Pandya on Thursday posted a video of himself bowling with the red-ball during a training session in England.
The dawn of a new era had begun under Sourav Ganguly's aggressive leadership. With Ganguly and Coach John Wright at the helm India had transitioned into a force to be reckoned with.
Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat in the second Test.
After walking out of the squad in a huff for being dropped from the playing eleven in the league stages of the Ranji Trophy, former India pacer Ajit Agarkar has returned to the Mumbai team for its West Zone One-day League campaign.
IMAGES from the fourth and deciding T20I played between South Africa and India in Johannesburg on Friday
The Indian fast bowler suffered a fracture in his left thumb during the Champions Trophy match against the West Indies last month.
The Indian cricket team has commenced their training regimen in Sri Lanka, marking the beginning of their preparations for the ODI series against the hosts.
Quite a few film folk and politicians attended the funeral of veteran actor Atul Parchure, who died on October 14 after a long battle with cancer. He was 57.
Venkatesh Prasad and Sunil Joshi were on Tuesday shortlisted along with three others for the national selectors' job. Agarkar not being shortlisted also is an indicator that the Board is likely to stick to the existing zonal policy for the national selectors.
Captain Ajit Agarkar and wicketkeeper Aditya Tare ground a pedestrian Services attack to score patient centuries as 39-time champions Mumbai ended the second day's play in the Ranji Trophy semi-final on 380 for 6 in 143 overs.
The Indian seamer is suffering from a side strain
Ajit Agarkar and Aavishkar Salvi claimed five wickets between themselves as defending champions Mumbai reduced Hyderabad to 223 for 7 on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Super League Group A match, at the Rajiv Gandhi International stadium, in Hyderabad.
Rohit Sharma said the feeling of winning the World Cup that ended India's decade-long drought in global tournaments could not be described in words.
The Mumbai paceman bagged five wickets as Baroda were all out for 130 in the Ranji Trophy semi-final.
Mumbai captain Ajit Agarkar was ruled out of the Irani Trophy match against Rest of India with an injury, a MCA official said on Monday.
The Indian fast bowler is suffering from a stiff calf muscle.
Mohammed Shami is making significant strides in his recovery from an ankle injury that has kept him out of cricket since the ODI World Cup last November.
The BCCI on Monday invited applications to replace one among the five senior national selectors and in all likelihood, former pacer Salil Ankola would be the one on his way out as West Zone is already represented by chairman Ajit Agarkar.
Former India pacer Ajit Agarkar retired from all forms of cricket, bringing down curtains on a 16-year first class career during which he played in 26 Tests and 191 ODIs besides leading Mumbai to their 40th Ranji Trophy title last season.
The Indian paceman, who claimed 5 for 44 in the four-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the fourth ODI, rated his effort higher than the 6 for 42 he secured in Australia last season.
BCCI secretary Karunakaran Nair said the two bowlers are nursing injuries and unfit to tour.
The national selectors want all the players to be available for the Duleep Trophy ahead of the two Test series against Bangladesh next month.
'Time flies. A Day that changed the FACE of Indian Cricket forever. Old is Gold. 41 years - #TDTY #WorldChampions.'
Save Jasprit Bumrah, whose injury-prone body and exceptional skills demand workload management, questions are now being raised as to why the likes of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja opted out of Duleep Trophy.
The 15-member squad of the Indian team which won the T20 World Cup will take home Rs 5 crore each.
The Mumbai Cricket Association will not take any action against India discard Ajit Agarkar for returning home in a huff after being dropped from Mumbai's team against Orissa in the Ranji Trophy Elite match at Cuttack, since he had taken permission.
Ajit Agarkar was on Tuesday named the captain of Mumbai's One-day team for its forthcoming West Zone one-day campaign to be held from February 22 to 26 in Mumbai.
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