Check out the statistical highlights on Day 1 of the second Test between India and New Zealand.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand gave a fine endgame lesson to young Alireza Firouzja, jumping to joint sixth position at the end of 11th round of Tata Steel Masters, in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands, on Saturday. With his second victory, Anand clawed his way back to a fifty percent score and will now hope to end the tournament on a high. At just 16 years, Firouzja is less than one third of Anand's age, and the Indian ace showed that the Iranian still has a lot to learn.
Three of the six nominated for the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year award happen to be Indians. Will it be MS Dhoni? Or can either Shikhar Dhawan or Ravindra Jadeja win? Take the poll and have your say.
IPL 2021 had many moments that made the tournament more special and fans asking for more.
'Let's get a woman to be the antagonist, who really throws me around and hammers the s**t out of me. That would be fun.'
Opener Prithvi Shaw smashed six fours in the first over in a stunning batting display on his way to a blistering 82 as Delhi Capitals crushed Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets in the IPL, in Ahmedabad, on Thursday.
Do you think Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Jasprit Bumrah and Jofra Archer can do the job for my team?
Captain KL Rahul has been one of the few consistent performers in the formidable-looking Punjab batting unit and he once again led by example against MI
Fearless Hetmyer guides West Indies to challenging 207/5
RCB will be strengthened further when the immensely-talented Devdutt Padikkal makes the team after his recovery from COVID-19.
This was India's 50 victory in ODIs against New Zealand, against whom they have played 100 matches.
Skipper Jaydev Shah led an impressive display by Saurashtra's batsmen, scoring a fluent 87 before Sheldon Jackson posted an unbeaten half-century, to propel the hosts to 274 for 5 on the first day of the Ranji Trophy semi-final against Punjab, in Rajkot, on Wednesday.
Five Indian players to watch in the Test series against Australia, which begins in Adelaide on December 17:
India finally made their presence felt as they thrashed Afghanistan by 66 runs on Wednesday to keep alive their slim hopes of reaching the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals.
Statistical highlights of the ICC Champions Trophy match between India and Pakistan, at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Sunday.
Who do you think should be part of India's playing XI in Friday's first T20 International against England?
Images from Friday's IPL match between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals, in Abu Dhabi.
Shardul Thakur produced an all-round display and Navdeep Saini impressed with his pace again as India thumped Sri Lanka by 78 runs in the third and final Twenty20 International to complete a 2-0 series victory in Pune on Friday.
A round-up of Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings, in Sharjah, on Sunday.
Statistical highlights from the opening day's play in the second cricket Test between India and the West Indies played in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Indian women have education, inspiration and perspiration -- but not enough employment, points out Mahesh Vyas.
Images from the T20 World Cup match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, in Sharjah, on Sunday.
A colourful photo of a green iguana strolling through sunflowers (below) by Indonesian photographer @jjnmatt was voted the overall winner of the "World Best Photos Of Animals 2020" competition organised by photo app Agora. Fifty images from around the world were selected as finalists from 13,888 submissions to the contest, "showing the wide and precious variety of animal life surrounding us," according to the organisers. "We challenged international photographers to participate in the #Animals2020 photo contest with their best shots of living creatures around the planet." Here's a slection of our 12 favourite images from the finalists.
Former India wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel picked Rishabh Pant as the key player for Delhi Capitals in IPL 2021, while adding that the young left-hander is capable of winning matches on his own and can be better than former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Sunrisers Hyderabad will take huge confidence from the fact that they managed to get the better of Delhi Capitals in both their league games, and boast of an impressive 11-6 overall head to head record against them.
Images from the fifth Twenty20 International between India and England, in Ahmedabad, on Saturday.
Warner, Parthiv, Amla, Bhuvi, Jasprit... Rediff.com's Harish Kotian picks his Dream Team after IPL 10.
Ruturaj Gaikwad continued his golden run with the bat with his third half-century in a row to help Chennai Super Kings end on a high, with a hat-trick of victories, even as they failed to make the IPL playoffs for the first time.
KXIP's chances of a top four finish took a serious hit after Rajasthan Royals handed them a seven-wicket loss,
While stars like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and David Warner are expected to set the stage on fire, there are other talented batsmen who want to compete with the best.
A desperate Sunrisers Hyderabad would seek inspiration from skipper David Warner to arrest any further slide when they take on Punjab Kings in an IPL match, in Chennai, on Wednesday.
A battle royale is in the offing as heavyweights Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals clash in a high-profile IPL encounter, in Chennai, on Tuesday.
Images from the first Twenty20 International between India and Australia, in Canberra, on Friday.
Statistical highlights of the fourth day's play of the third cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka in New Delhi on Tuesday
Images from the IPL 2020 opener between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, in Abu Dhabi, on Saturday.
KL Rahul received applause from umpire Ian Gould for his honesty in the field during Day 3.
'It is systematic chaos, it is organised chaos.'
Bisht returned with impressive figures of four for 25 to help Indian women defend a modest a 203-run target
What if Jamie Darnon got into a conversation with Himesh Reshammiya?
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