Youngsters including Shreyas Iyer, Karun Nair, keeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, teen sensation Prithvi Shaw will be keen to make a mark and impress the national selectors during Tuesday's One-Day warm-up against New Zealand in Mumbai.
India will argue that they didn't take any undue advantage from the concussion substitute rule.
Will Ashton Agar and Adam Zampa both play the 1st ODI in Chennai on Sunday?
Kings XI Punjab skipper David Miller is not too worried about the ongoing issue of moving the IPL games out of Maharashtra and said his team would look to make their home wherever they find themselves after the matter is resolved.
The three-day practice game will give a chance for the players who are already in the West Indies to shift from limited overs to the five-day format.
South Africa coach Russell Domingo did not sound too worried about the indifferent form shown so far on the tour by Test captain Hashim Amla, even if the opening Test of the four-match contest is just round the corner.
'China would want to take a tougher stance against India forming those strategic partnerships and prevent Quad from becoming a military alliance.'
Indian cricket board said there is no need for it to step in.
Ahead of the India-West Indies Test series, Rajneesh Gupta looks at how the two teams stack up.
Delhi Capitals chief executive officer Dhiraj Malhotra and assistant coach Mohammad Kaif shared their thoughts, having met their players after a long time.
Images from Wednesday's IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kings XI Punjab, in Bengaluru.
Smith was handed a one-year ban along with his then deputy David Warner exactly a year ago for their roles in the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa.
Some BCCI officials are of the view that unless VIVO backs out on its own in prevailing circumstances, the board should honour the remainder of the contract, which ends in 2022.
Senior Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official Najam Sethi on Wednesday claimed that they have intimated the Board of Control for Cricket in India on taking legal recourse as the Indian Cricket Board has not honoured the agreement pertaining to bilateral series between the two nations.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's ombudsman Justice DK Jain on Wednesday said that both Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul met him and explained their involvement in a television chat show.
Twitterati insisted that Rohit Sharma should lead India in the ICC Men's cricket World Cup.
Rahul's ascendancy to captaincy was expected after Ravichandran Ashwin was traded to Delhi Capitals last month.
India's soft power diplomacy came into play during this cataclysm affecting the world as the pandemic defies barriers and borders, notes Rup Narayan Das.
The promoters of King's XI Punjab have applied to the Cricket Board seeking permission to sell 93 per cent of their stake in the Indian Premier League franchisee and the matter would come up before the IPL's Governing Council meeting later this month.
Four batsmen scored half-centuries to take Sri Lanka to 411 for six on Day 1 of their two-day warm-up against Board President's XI in Kolkata.
'The Indian army is a professional army. They can handle such a situation'
While the NZC will be updating its players about the health safety protocols and latest COVID-19 related developments, the onus will be on the six individuals to do due diligence.
Desperate to not miss a single game, a big-hitting star has requested BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, on behalf of the players from both countries, to lessen the quarantine period to three days.
Should India exploit South Africa's weakness against the turning ball?
MSK Prasad has just completed an eventful tenure during which he successfully oversaw the transition of leadership from Mahendra Singh Dhoni to Virat Kohli.
'Honestly, I don't want to be a testing sort of a cricketer for any new format. I don't want to be someone who's going to be part of that World XI who comes and launches the 100-ball format'
Everything you wanted to know about 'Sunny' Gavaskar.
Help Captain Kohli and Head Coach Shastri pick India's XI for the Rajkot Test.
Flamboyant Australian Glenn Maxwell is expected to be a favourite, despite his under-whelming record, along with England's spin bowling all-rounder Moeen Ali, while Kerala's batting sensation Mohammed Azharuddeen could be in hot demand during a condensed IPL players' auction, to be held in Chennai, on Thursday.
There seems to be no end to confusion with regards to shift of Kings XI Punjab's three Indian Premier League home matches after the franchise issued an official statement naming Dharamsala as their second home venue.
Two Indian Premier League team owners on Tuesday floated the idea of having next edition's players' auction in England
Kings XI Punjab put the brakes on their summer of discontent as they notched up a convincing seven-wicket win over defending champions Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Four-time champions and title contenders India stormed into the Super League quarter-finals of the Under-19 World Cup after thrashing minnows Ireland by a whopping 174 runs in a league game.
Steve Smith, David Warner, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler will arrive in the UAE late on Thursday night (UAE time) from the UK and on arrival will undergo RT-PCR test for COVID-19.
Looking for a proper tune-up before the three-match Test series against hosts Sri Lanka gets underway, India would be hoping that rain stays away from their one and only three-day practice game beginning at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, on Thursday.
'When I saw we needed 104 off 48, I knew we had to break it down. We got two big overs. We had a couple of bowlers whom we had to target and we did that and got the much needed two points chasing down 198'
It will not be an easy task for a struggling Punjab side to stand up to the challenge thrown by a RCB team
The national selection committee is awaiting an update on skipper India Virat Kohli's injured wrist as they get ready to announce the squad for the two-Test series against the West Indies.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board said that doors will be opened for Shakib once his ban ends.
'You can see that in Chinese behaviour in the Yellow Sea, you can see it in their behaviour towards Taiwan, you can see it in their behaviour towards Hong Kong, you can see it on our border as well.'
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