Yuvraj played for Mumbai Indians in this year's IPL but didn't get many chances which might have prompted him to seriously think about future plans.
The only change in the squad for the NatWest ODI series is Munaf Patel, who is making a comeback in place of S Sreesanth.
Skipper Irfan Pathan led from the front with a four-wicket haul as Baroda dismissed Maharashtra for 207 in their second innings on the third day of their Ranji Trophy Super League Group B match in Pune on Thursday. Chasing a paltry 101 for victory, Baroda were 2 for 1 at the draw of stumps.
The train crash on Friday, involving the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and a goods train, is one of the deadliest such accidents since independence.
Experienced India leg-spinner Piyush Chawla's father Pramod Kumar Chawla on Monday died after battling COVID-19.
Irfan Pathan believes that Virat Kohli's captaincy style is working well for the current Test team.
Former Test player Manoj Prabhakar feels lanky Indian pacer Ishant Sharma has lost his swing in pursuit of extra speed.
Lakshmipathy Balaji turned out to be the cynosure of all eyes during the Indian cricket team's tour of Pakistan in 2004.
The two cricketers became teammates at Chennai Super Kings, four years after that incident.
Shikhar Dhawan had the luxury of having very impressive bowlers to fall back upon in crucial junctures and the Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper is delighted that they did not let him down in the match against Mumbai Indians in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
'Congratulations MS Dhoniji and CSK. We are happy that at least some sportspersons are getting respect and love they deserve. For us, the fight for justice is still on,' Sakshi said in her tweet, which received more than 50,000 likes and nearly 10,000 retweets in 12 hours.
Brendon McCullm again top-scored as New Zealand beat India by five wickets in the second T20 match and won the series 2-0.
Baroda amassed 318 runs for the loss of nine wickets in their first innings on Day One of the Ranji Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh in Lucknow on Saturday.
Hyderabad openers Daniel Manohar and Ravi Teja helped their team to 220 for four against Baroda in a Ranji trophy encounter.
Shikhar Dhawan termed skipper Virat Kohli as the 'best current Indian batsman'. Dhawan also praised Rohit Sharma for his phenomenal performance
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has hailed the Pathan brothers -- Yusuf and Irfan -- for their match winning eighth-wicket partnership and said if it wasn't for them, the result of the match would have been different especially with the middle order finding it tough to score runs against the Sri Lankan spinners.
In scoring 124 not out on Day 1 of the fourth Test against Australia, Sachin Tendulkar extended his record for most Test hundreds to 39, and 23 on foreign soil. Having already registered 41 centuries in ODIs, he becames the first batsman to post 80 international centuries 39 hundreds in Tests and 41 in limited-overs internationals.
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Irfan Pathan reached his maiden Test hundred on Sunday in style - hitting Danish Kaneria for a six to move from 96 to 102. He, in the course, became only the seventh Indian to reach the three-figure mark with a six.
Two years after he started walking in the footsteps of his elder brother, Jammu & Kashmir's left-handed batter Vivrant lost his father Sushant to kidney failure.
The Mohammad Kaif-led Indian side is high on confidence as they take on South Africa in a four-day match.
A newspaper report said the Team India coach wanted Ajit Agarkar instead.
India will experiment with different field settings to compensate for their bowling deficiencies at the Twenty20 World Cup, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.
Ajinkya Rahane steered clear of the controversy surrounding domestic stalwart and his former Mumbai teammate Wasim Jaffer
"Irfan Pathan and Yuvraj Singh are not 100 per cent fit, so we have kept a backup for them in the next two games," chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar informed in Mumbai on Monday.
The Mahmudullah-led Bangladesh defeated India in the series opener last week
The Indian selectors will face a huge dilemma when they sit down on Sunday to select the Indian squad for the Test series against Australia, starting later this month.
Veteran Sachin Tendulkar was recalled while paceman Praveen Kumar and spinner Rahul Sharma were also included in India's 17-member squad for the next month's tri-series in Australia.
Delhi Daredevils produced a superb bowling show as they crushed Kolkata Knight riders by 52 runs in their opening Champions League Twenty20 match in Centurion on Saturday.
Kiran Powar and Connor Williams missed centuries as Baroda won by 220 runs.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni heaped praise on his bowlers and batsman Virat Kohli for the eight-wicket thrashing of Pakistan in their Super Eights match of World Twenty20 and said that a calm approach had helped his side in winning the high-voltage fixture.
MS Dhoni in his career usually batted lower down the order and was more of a finisher.
A well compiled century from opener Gautam Gambhir and big-hitting of Suresh Raina helped India pull a thrilling five-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the third One-day International in Colombo.
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