Tributes poured in for AB de Villiers after the South African batter on Friday announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, with Indian maestro Virat Kohli aptly summing up his greatness by calling him the "best player of our times".
It proved to be a good toss to lose for Saurashtra, who succeeded in removing the most impactful Vidarbha batsmen -- Jaffer (23) and captain Faiz Fazal (16) -- cheaply.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Thursday.
The trio will represent the 36-time champions in the last round Ranji Trophy match against Maharashtra.
Sporting fraternity hails Kohli's epic knock in win against Pakistan as one of a kind
Ollie Robinson was suspended from international cricket pending an investigation after his tweets, posted when he was a teenager
The cricket world was in awe of India's wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant following his outstanding innings on Day 1 of the fifth Test against England, at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham, on Friday.
'The IPL is like a corporate world, the owners expect results and on top of that you don't get that much time.' 'Coaching is not that important at that level, it is more about man management and keeping the atmosphere really good, that is the most important thing.'
'At such a young age, he has already played some of the most incredible knock so in the coming 8-10 years, I feel he'll be more mature.'
'If I played that 5 balls in the end in the 20th over, we could've scored 20 runs more which would have been a tight game I guess'
Cricket Association of Uttarakhand (CAU) on Wednesday announced it will conduct a one-month training camp for its senior men's squad in a bio-secure environment from October 14.
Five-star Kartikeya bowls MP to victory over Bengal, enter Ranji final
Malayankunju is a coming-of-age survival drama that has its heart in the right place, notes Divya Nair.
Damien Wright has worked with Australian Big Bash League sides Hobart Hurricanes and the Melbourne Stars and also served as the bowling coach of New Zealand team.
India declared at 321 for nine on day one of the three-day practice game against Australian Capital Territory XI.
All eyes will be on 41-year-old Wasim Jaffer, who is only 853 runs shy of 20,000 first-class runs.
Pakistan dished out a strong top-order display to put up 267 for seven on the board after opting to bat.
Pacers Basil Thampi and Sandeep Warrier powered Kerala into the semi-finals of the Ranji Trophy as the hosts registered a thumping 113-run win over Gujarat, on Day 3, in Wayanad, on Thursday.
India women team captain Mithali Raj quit international cricket on Wednesday after a stellar 23-year career.
Sachin Tendulkar leads the cricket world to hail New Zealand's triumph.
Vaibhav Rawal scored a fine century before pacer Divij Mehra's dismantled Mumbai with a five-wicket haul to power Delhi to an emphatic eight-wicket victory in the Ranji Trophy Group B match.
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Friday.
IMAGES from Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy final played between Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Friday.
IMAGES from the Ranji Trophy final between Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh on Day 1 at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
Banerjee had slammed the BJP for allegedly trying to import AIMIM in Bengal to sharpen the communal polarisation and divide the Hindu-Muslim votes among themselves.
Former and current players took to Twitter to extend wishes to Ravi Shastri
Madhya Pradesh humbled domestic powerhouse Mumbai by six wickets in a one-sided final to win their maiden Ranji Trophy crown, at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru on Sunday. It was an achievement of sorts for coach Chandrakant Pandit, who exorcised the ghosts of losing one at the same venue 23 summers ago. It was a record sixth national title for Pandit as a coach.
Vidarbha inched closer to a maiden Ranji Trophy title by grabbing a commanding 233-run lead against a Delhi side that looked defeated for better part of the day, as little-known Akshay Wadkar chose first-class cricket's biggest stage to compile his maiden century, in Indore, on Sunday.
India opener Prithvi Shaw and budding left-arm pacer Arjun Tendulkar have been named in the list of 104 Mumbai players for a camp ahead of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 50-overs tournament.
The franchise will be seen donning a red jersey with golden stripes for this season, opting for a different, unique design for this new-look team.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Sunday
The Chandrakant Pandit-coached side lost opener Yash Dubey (9) cheaply after he was trapped in front of the wickets by pacer Mukesh Kumar (2/45).
Ahmedabad is home to the strangest of cuisines and is a city of contrasts, if you look beyond the tourist places.
'Me and my family along with Sarfaraz have given our entire life towards this dream.'
Many cricketers hailed R Ashwin on social media.
'In cricket and in life, the graph always goes up and down and it's never going to always go up. So it's a just a matter of time that I middle those balls and get those big runs again. But right now, I want to ensure that my team is doing fine and is enjoying its game.'
Mumbai produced an incisive bowling display to bundle out Uttar Pradesh for a paltry 180 and take the crucial first-innings lead on the third day of their Ranji Trophy semi-final, in Bengaluru on Thursday.
'Happy Birthday to a wonderful selfless cricketer, his contributions cannot be measured only in runs.'
The dominance of Saurashtra's bowlers could be gauged from the fact that Himachal lost their first seven wickets for just 22 runs.
