Jasprit Bumrah, who has been out of action since September last year, could finally make a comeback to the Indian team next month.
Bumrah and Prasidh have made promising returns on the Ireland tour with two wickets each for the pacers in the two games so far
Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni is to leave Salzburg at the end of the season to become manager of Ireland's national side, his Austrian club said on Wednesday.
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Wales reached the Euro 2016 quarter-finals with a 1-0 win over Northern Ireland thanks to an own goal by Gareth McAuley in a poor encounter at the Parc des Princes on Saturday. Centre back McAuley turned a Gareth Bale cross into his own net 15 minutes from time in the all British last-16 clash.
Images from the World Cup match between South Africa and Ireland being played at Eden Gardens.
Rinku Singh displayed his unwavering commitment during an intense training session on Wednesday.
India scored a comprehensive 125-run victory over Ireland to post their third consecutive win in Group A and sealed a placed in the Super Six stage of the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier in Colombo.
Ireland's slim quarter-final hope in the World Cup might have ended with a 131-run loss to South Africa in Kolkata on Tuesday, but skipper William Porterfield said they would take a lot of positives from the tournament.
Aware that any slip-up could pose a serious threat to their quarter-final chances, a resurgent West Indies will take on giant-killers Ireland in an interesting group B match of the World Cup in Mohali on Friday.
After coming up with the most successful run chase in World Cup history against England on Wednesday, Ireland have lived up to their reputation as giant-killers. Can they pull off a surprise against tournament favourites India?
Ireland's Kevin O'Brien blasted the fastest century in a World Cup to guide his country to one of the biggest shocks of the tournament with victory over the old enemy England in Bangalore, on Wednesday.
Images from the athletics action at Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris, on Friday.
India beat Ireland by 52 runs to enter the semi-finals of the ICC Women's World T20 on Thursday.
USA caused the biggest upset of the T20 World Cup when they shocked former champions Pakistan via the Super Over.
Images from the ICC T20 World Cup match between India and the United States at the Nassau County Cricket Ground, in New York, on Wednesday.
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He is yet to recover from a groin injury and seemed uncertain to play the one-off one-dayer on Saturday.
Images from the World Cup match between West Indies and Ireland played in Mohali on Friday.
Ireland will also order a statutory inquiry, in addition to the medical one, into the death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar due to pregnancy-related complications after being denied abortion, in a move seen as an attempt to meet her husband's demand for a full public probe.
Rinku Singh says a burning desire to give his parents a good life while wading through tough times paved the way for his inclusion into the Indian team.
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Dismissing Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan's suggestion that Ireland will struggle on the spin-friendly conditions in Dhaka, Irish skipper William Porterfield insisted that his team is well prepared to handle any situation when they take on the hosts in their Group B World Cup match on Friday.
Thierry Henry's infamous handball in a qualification playoff game for the 2010 World Cup against Ireland will play no role when the two teams meet on Sunday for a place in the Euro 2016 quarter-finals, France coach Didier Deschamps said on Saturday.
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Karuna Jain and Mithali Raj scored half-centuries to guide the Indian women's cricket team to a convincing 107-run win.
If the game of cricket remains tilted heavily in the favour of batters, not many youngsters would be lining up to start bowling in a couple of years, fears spin great Anil Kumble, who advocated the need to keep biggest possible boundaries at IPL venues and use of more pronounced seam to restore the balance between bat and ball.
As many as 86 per cent of senior business executives have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance revenue streams or create new ones, said a report by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Wednesday. As many as 69 per cent of businesses are more focused on using AI for innovation and increasing revenue than on improving productivity and optimising cost, said the 'TCS AI for Business Study'.
Statistical highlights of the second match in the T20 World Cup between the West Indies and Ireland, at Providence
India took apart a diligent but limited Ireland attack to sweep to an untroubled eight-wicket victory at Seddon Park on Tuesday which confirmed they will top Pool B in the cricket World Cup.
Dube is only the third player to accomplish this more than once, following Yuvraj's three instances and Virat's two.
'Boom (Bumrah) was earlier like a fighter jet. Even shorter run-up after a few rapid walking strides meant that entire pace that he generated came from the thrust provided by his shoulder and back. The injury was bound to happen because his run-up hardly gave him any momentum.'
Former India opener Aakash Chopra lauded Chennai Super Kings (CSK) batter Shivam Dube and said that the left-hand batter should be there in the Indian squad for the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 following his match-winning performance against Gujarat Titans (GT) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 fixture on Tuesday.
We can't wait for Bumrah to unleash his lethal toe crushers.
Ireland became the second associate nation to qualify for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, to be held in Sri Lanka, when they beat Namibia by nine wickets in the second qualifying final in Dubai.
'To date, they've been fantastic in how they've continued to play all three formats of the game. Their commitment to Test cricket... I don't think it has ever been as strong as it is now'
While the newest addition are players from the Northeastern states, Uttarakhand and Bihar, there will also be 232 overseas players, who have thrown their hat in the ring. There are 800 uncapped players with 746 being Indians.
She hit 31 boundaries and two sixes in her 145-ball knock, then after a 10-minute nap on the physio's table between innings, took 5-17 as Ireland were bowled out for 135 to give the White Ferns a 305-run win and 3-0 series victory.
