The Indian board has not done 'enough' to market Test cricket, revered by the purists, says former India opener Gautam Gambhir.
AB de Villiers believes a lot of experienced Mumbai Indians players don't buy into Hardik Pandya's style of captaincy.
Delhi Capitals skipper Rishabh Pant is the latest India star to express his apprehensions about the contentious Impact Player rule.
At just 24, Abhishek Sharma has begun rewriting records that took years for others to set.
TV commentators Graeme Smith and Scott Styris remarked that such discussions should occur privately, not in front of the broadcasting cameras.
Tilak Varma stole the show with a spectacular maiden century as India clinched a narrow 11-run win over South Africa in a high-scoring third T20 International.
Former captain Bishan Singh Bedi on Thursday said he feels 'sorry' for Anil Kumble for having to quit as India head coach due to differences with skipper Virat Kohli, and slammed the Board of Control for Cricket in India for allowing this to happen.
Former Australia skipper Ian Chappell has slammed the Board of Control for Cricket in India for "muzzling" commentators over the controversial DRS and said he won't be working under the terms of BCCI during the seven-match ODI series between India and Australia, starting Sunday.
Gambhir didn't mince any words in his criticism for the gesture towards a tainted cricketer.
Graeme Pollock, voted South Africa's best cricketer of the 20th century in 2009, blasted the Board of Control for Cricket in India for yet again raising the red flag for the universal implementation of the Decision Review System.
Rishabh Pant has swelling on his operated knee after taking a hit, but hoped the wicketkeeper batter can return to the field on the third of the first Test
"To be honest, I was not serious when I was young," he said in a video released by the BCCI on Thursday.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the 1st Test played between India and New Zealand in Bengaluru, on Thursday.
Images from Day 3 of the first Test between Australia and India in Perth on Sunday.
Royal Challengers Bangalore owner Vijay Mallya on Tuesday slammed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), saying that the rules and regulations for the Indian Premier League were made without the consultation of the franchisees involved.
Suryakumar Yadav reaffirmed the stance that no one is 'bigger than the team' and having a 'selfless' approach after the hosts handed Bangladesh a shellacking in the final T20I.
Captaon Suryakumar Yadav, all-rounders Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel, the only member from the Test side, will be hoping for a strong outing so that India can apply some balm over the wounds from their recent home series defeat against New Zealand.
Vidarbha opener Atharva Taide struck his third first-class century and his second of the ongoing Ranji Trophy season
IMAGES from the IPL match between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bengaluru played in Dharamsala on Thursday
'I see them as well rested India players. Could have been selected for the Duleep Trophy.'
The left-arm wrist spinner, who grabbed three Kiwi wickets, patted Rachin Ravindra for making a splendid hundred.
Gautam Gambhir came under fire from the fans after he promoted the fantasy cricket app Real11 on his social media accounts.
'If a franchise has released a player because they don't see him in their top four or five, then what gives them the right to jump in during an auction?'
Round-up of the matches across various venues in the Ranji Trophy
Home hero Ravichandran Ashwin on Thursday said he made a conscious effort to bat aggressively on the red soil pitch laid out for the first Test against Bangladesh.
Dashing opener Shafali Verma smashed 81 off 48 to power India to 178 for 3.
Openers KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock hit fifties as LSG trounced CSK by eight wickets.
South Africa bounced back to defeat India by 12 runs in the first women's T20I to secure their first win of the multi-format tour
Veteran batter Cheteshwar Pujara slammed his second hundred of the ongoing Ranji Trophy season, guiding Saurashtra to a comfortable 242 for four against Rajasthan on the opening day of their Group A match, in Jaipur on Friday.
Jasprit Bumrah's wife Sanjana Ganesan attended the IPL 2024 match at Mumbai's Wankhede stadium with son Angad, who sported the MI jersey.
Jaiswal etched a world record to his name as he became the first batter to score 12 runs off the first legal delivery of the match in men's T20 Internationals.
Suryakumar Yadav smashed an unbeaten century as Mumbai Indians eased past Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets.
Rohit Sharma is the first cricketer to cross 200 sixes in T20 internationals.
Head coach Gautam Gambhir put up a stout defence of under-pressure skipper Rohit Sharma and star batter Virat Kohli ahead of tour of Australia.
Rishabh Pant's belligerent unbeaten half-century helped Delhi Capitals' to a narrow four-run win over Gujarat Titans.
'I can't express my feelings right now. It's unbelievable. Can't imagine scoring back-to-back hundreds, that too in SA. Right now, I can't express my feelings.'
IMAGES from the Indian Premier League match played between Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Supr Giants in New Delhi, on Tuesday.
Images from the IPL match between Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad, at the Rajiv Gandhi stadium, Hyderabad, on Sunday.
IMAGES from the IPL match played between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai on Monday.
It was a proper Test innings, it was of the highest class, and given the circumstances it came in, it was one of the best innings by an Indian batsman in recent memory, applauds Prem Panicker.
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