The Indian team on Saturday began their three-day training camp ahead of their Test series against Australia starting next week with a three hour-long practice session in Bangalore, with senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar returning in the mix after his retirement from ODI cricket.
With the first of six successive games, away from their comfort zone, conceded to Mumbai Indians, the results of the next five will be crucial in determining how comfortably the team from Bangalore is placed when it welcomes Punjab at the Chinnaswamy on May 14, says Bikash Mohapatra.
Images from the IPL match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals in Bangalore on Saturday.
Patel wasn't expecting a marauding Dhoni to miss Umesh Yadav's slower delivery before his direct throw sealed it for the home team on Sunday night.
Images from the Indian Premier League (IPL VI) match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Thursday.
Explosive Jamaican Chris Gayle and Sri Lankan dasher Tillekratne Dilshan on Tuesday batted under lights for half an hour at the Royal Challengers Bangalore's net practice ahead of their encounter with Mumbai Indians on April 4 at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
Australian all-rounder Daniel Christian rated the Indian Premier League (IPL) ahead of his country's domestic T20 Big Bash.
Royal Challengers Bangalore qualified for the play-offs of the Indian Premier League after their last league match against Delhi Daredevils was called off due to heavy rains.
Murali Vijay (129 not out) and Cheteshwar Pujara (162 not out) hit unbeaten centuries to put India in complete control on the second day.
Right wing outfit Sri Ram Sene has threatened to disrupt the India-Pakistan T20 cricket match at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on December 25, and asked the BJP government in Karnataka to refuse permission for the fixture.
Pacer Parvinder Awana got his second consecutive five-wicket haul as Delhi skittled out Karnataka for a paltry 192 in a Ranji Trophy Group league encounter at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
Soon after finishing a gruelling training session with his India team-mates, senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar, on Sunday, spent time with members of a Bangalore-based blind foundation, which requested him to play a charity match.
It was an engrossing day of cricket with both India and Australia trying to seize control in front of a big Sunday crowd at the M Chinaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and a lot of words were exchanged in the first session between India's fielders and Australia's batsmen.
Teen sensation Rashid Khan and fellow spinners Mujeeb ur Rahman, Zahir Khan and Hamza Hotak have been named in the 16-member Afghanistan squad for the inaugural one-off Test match against India, starting in Bengaluru, from June 14.
Can the same Indian team beat Australia away from home? Look what Michael Kasprowicz said.
'I don't see him as a shrewd captain. I don't see him as a tactful captain (tactician). And he hasn't won the IPL. So ultimately, a captain is only as good as his record'
The Indian and Pakistan cricket teams arrived in Ahmedabad for the second and final Twenty20 international, to be played on Friday.
Guiding a Pakistani side to play against India on their home soil may be a pressure job but Dav Whatmore says he is comfortable doing his duties in the upcoming bilateral series since he has already worked with sub-continent players in the past.
Having not played since last October's semifinal match against Sri Lanka in the Twenty20 World Cup, the Mohammad Hafeez-led Pakistan side on Sunday underwent a one-hour practice session to get into the groove ahead of the first T20 match against India in Bangalore.
It has to be Michael Clarke's dismissal. Australia, after having conceded a whopping first innings lead (192 runs) and got off to a poor start in their second innings, had hard work to do in their second innings.
In October 2004, a 23-year-old went out to bat in the Chinnaswamy stadium and returned having made 151. It was a memorable debut.
Perennial underachievers Royal Challengers Bangalore endured another disappointing IPL campaign, but their performance in the second half of Season-12 has given them something to be proud of, said skipper Virat Kohli, after defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by four wickets, in Bengaluru, on Saturday.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has cautioned his teammates from taking New Zealand lightly and said the visiting team's pacers would look to exploit the overcast conditions during the second Test match, starting in Bangalore on Friday.
Injured Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli, who is yet to feature in the ongoing Indian Premier League, on Wednesday, went through some fielding drills during the team's net session, in Bengaluru.
Interpol issued the Red Corner notice against 28-year-old Mehmood on a request from the Central Bureau of Investigation for offences of terrorism and crimes involving the use of weapons and explosives, the official website of the international police said
The questioning of suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Fasih Mahmood is currently going on at Bengaluru and it has revealed details of the logistical support he provided in carrying out the blasts at the Chinnaswamy Stadium at Bangalore. Fasih, who was extradited from Saudi Arabia, was first questioned by a team of the Delhi police and the Intelligence Bureau. Fasih has been named as the eighth accused in the blasts case.
The CSK duo scored 100 runs together, taking the game away from RCB.
Moeen Ali, who is set to return to England to prepare for the upcoming World Cup, says leaving the Indian Premier League midway through the season is a shame, especially when there is a slim chance of Royal Challengers Bangalore making it into the semi-finals if they win all the remaining games.
Parents of Kafeel Akthar, an alleged Indian Mujahideen operative who was arrested from Bihar earlier this week, have filed a complaint against the Bengaluru police for illegal confinement of their son.
Dhoni nearly won the match for CSK with a magnificent 84 not out off 48 balls
The Karnataka Police chief while describing the arrest of Kafeel Akthar from Barasmela village two days ago in connection with the 2010 Chinnaswamy Stadium twin blasts as an exceptional situation, said that there is a provision to inform the police of another state later.
Pacer Navdeep Saini, who is among India's standbys for the World Cup, says he is ready for his big break in the mega event should the need arises.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted that 133 was not a defendable total on this Chinnaswamy track as the hosts went down by five wickets in the first Twenty20 International in Bangalore on Tuesday.
Azhar Mahmood (3/20) registered his best bowling performance for Kings XI Punjab in the present edition of the IPL.
A spirited team effort by Karnataka saw them defeat Delhi by a whopping 159-run margin despite conceding the first innings lead in a Ranji Trophy group league encounter at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Tuesday. Starting the day at 40 for 3, Delhi were all out for 250 in 81.5 overs, nine of the 10 wickets being claimed by the home team's seamers.
Having conceded a 66-run first innings lead, Karnataka scored a comprehensive 475 for nine declared with as many as six batsmen hitting half-centuries. At stumps on Day 3, Delhi were in trouble at 40 for three chasing a huge target of 410.
Opener Murali Vijay's unbeaten 151 ensured Rest of India a crucial 75-run first innings lead on Day 2 of the Irani Trophy match against Rajasthan, at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore, on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia has told Indian authorities that Faish Mohammed, a suspected terrorist, has been apprehended by local authorities and may be deported soon. An engineer by profession, 28-year old Fasih is alleged to have been involved in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast in Bangalore and the shooting incident near Delhi's Jama Masjid in 2010. He is wanted by both the Delhi and Karnataka police.
Let's looks at 10 former India players, who missed the IPL but had they been active today, they could have forced the Ambanis and the Shah Rukh Khans to loosen their purse strings a tad more.
Rajasthan Royals all-rounder Stuart Binny today said his team is not the underdogs ahead of Saturday's match against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
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