Team India's manager on the South Africa tour had snubbed former Test player Dilip Sardesai previously.
Riding on momentum gained from Mumbai win, Punjab to take on Saurashtra in VHT semis
Unlike in the past, both Saurashtra and Vidarbha do not have any superstars in their line-up.
Vishvaraj Jadeja struck a crafty hundred as Saurashtra thrashed Punjab by nine wickets to storm into the final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Bengaluru on Friday.
Ton-up Desai helps Saurashtra make semis
Mohammed Siraj returned 17-3-56-4 to help Hyderabad bowl Chhattisgarh out for 283 on Day 1 of their Group D Ranji Trophy contest, in Hyderabad, on Thursday.
Delhi storm into VHT quarterfinals from Group D
Karnataka on shaky ground against Punjab despite Rahul's fifty; Desai puts Saurashtra on cusp of win
Dharmendra's oeuvre was so phenomenal that there was never a phase in his professional life when he was in danger of falling into a rut, in terms of either the kind of films he starred in or the sort of co-actors he worked with.
Dharmendra remained one of the most loved stars of all time, even when his movies tapered off, and age caught up with him.
Saurashtra registered their narrowest T20 victory in terms of runs, edging Karnataka by one run in the Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025 Elite Group D match.
Mumbai were bowled out for 181 in their second innings, setting J&K 243 runs to win the season-opening match.
Deepak Hooda smashed a brilliant double hundred to put Rajasthan in control as they took a massive lead against Mumbai on Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group D match.
When Kamini Kaushal passed away at 98, she missed being a centenarian by just two years. But there is very little else that she missed out on in her long, rich, creatively fulfilling life.
Several benches of the Bombay high court have recused from hearing HDFC Bank CEO and MD Sashidhar Jagdishan's plea to quash an FIR of cheating and fraud registered against him on a complaint filed by the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust. While some judges cited having worked with either the Trust or the lawyers appearing for it, one judge on Thursday voluntarily disclosed that he held few shares of the HDFC Bank.
Left-arm spinner Shams Mulani returned a five-wicket haul as a dominant Mumbai crushed Himachal Pradesh by an innings and 120 runs.
Here's a roundup of all Ranji Trophy matches played on Day 1 on Wednesday.
Before the Champions Trophy final, a look at the 'Team Behind the Team'.
Job creation, improving farm productivity, and mobilising public funds for infrastructure development were some of the issues that figured during the interaction between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and economists ahead of the 2025-26 Union Budget. The prime minister on Tuesday met eminent economists and sectoral experts at NITI Aayog to hear their views and suggestions for the upcoming Budget. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Budget for 2025-26 in the Lok Sabha on February 1, 2025.
A television channel has claimed that coach Greg Chappell and Virender Sehwag were engaged in a feud during the Durban Test.
BCCI said it would seek an explanation from Rahul Dravid for his outburst against the team manager Chetan Desai.
The BCCI constituted a four-member committee, led by Shashank Manohar, to resolve the telecast issue.
The stores are expected to provide services ranging from textiles, ready-to-wear garments and customised tailoring facilities.
Skipper Rahul Dravid on Wednesday lambasted Chetan Desai, the Indian team's manager on the recent South Africa tour, for his controversial report.
Surprisingly the Himachal Pradesh team did not turn up for the match.
The Indian captain said he is not worried by BCCI's stand to seek an explanation for his outburst against the team manager Chetan Desai.
India internationals Shardul Thakur and Shivam Dube starred with the ball and the bat respectively as 41-time champions Mumbai took an upperhand over Assam on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match in Mumbai on Friday.
Goa Cricket Association has filed an FIR against its former office-bearers including president, in connection with an alleged fraud of Rs 28 lakh in 2008-09.
In red-hot form, two-time former champions Kolkata Knight Riders will look to seal an IPL playoff berth for the first time in three years when they take on the struggling Mumbai Indians in their final home match of the season, in Kolkata on Saturday.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Saturday suspended and issued show cause notices to the top Goa Cricket Association officials, who were arrested for alleged misappropriation of organisation funds, and initiated a probe of its own against them.
KKR will look to iron out their flaws and get the better of a misfiring Mumbai Indians during their IPL match on Friday.
Mumbai's run machine Sarfaraz Khan was ruled out of the match because of injury.
Skipper Mayank Agarwal hit a double century to help Karnataka post 407 in their first innings
Saurashtra were 317 for 5 at close on day two in reply to Bengal's 174 all out.
A special court in Gujarat on Thursday acquitted all the 67 accused, including former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Maya Kodnani, in the 2002 Naroda Gam riots case in which 11 people were killed.
Bengal's dream of winning a Ranji Trophy after more than three decades suffered a setback as the left-arm Saurashtra pace duo of Jaydev Unadkat and Chetan Sakariya rattled the home team's top-order, bundling them out for a paltry 174 on the opening day of the summit clash in Kolkata on Thursday.
Former Union minister and Congress leader Rajeev Shukla was re-appointed chairman of the powerful IPL Governing Council on Monday, ending a month-long suspense over the selection for the top post in the cash-rich Twenty20 league.
A summary of Friday's action in the Ranji Trophy matches across the country.
Full list of players released, retained and traded by all ten teams in the IPL.
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