IMAGES from Day 1 of the 4th Test played between India and England in Ranchi on Friday.
Skipper Rishabh Pant will look to overcome his rustiness as Delhi Capitals aim for an improved batting display in their bid for a first win of the IPL season when they take on Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur on Thursday.
India bowled England out for 218 and cruised to 135/1 in their robust reply to seize early control of the fifth and final test.
The Royals spinners kept the RCB batters quiet.
The curtains dropped on another exciting India vs England Test series, with the visiting side falling to a crushing defeat in the final match in Dharamsala.
'For me, the lowest point was the phase between 2018 and 2019.'
The Bengaluru outfit will hope for a reversal at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium, a venue that carries similar traits as RCB's home -- Chinnaswamy Stadium -- in terms of a smooth pitch and a blistering outfield adding value to the batters' shots.
India head coach Rahul Dravid was delighted to see the players identify themselves with Rohit Sharma's leadership principles.
The focus will be on K L Rahul's form and fitness when he returns after a quadriceps injury lay-off to lead Lucknow Super Giants in their IPL 2024 opener against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur on Sunday.
Kuldeep Yadav wrecked England's top order and fellow spinner Ravichandran Ashwin polished off the tail to bundle out England in just over two sessions.
Real show stealer was Boomball: Ashwin lauds Bumrah's Himalayan feat
Prasidh Krishna makes his Test debut
Rohit Sharma expressed frustration and disappointment with senior player Ravichandran Ashwin's fielding efforts.
'There were tough conversations with him, and I don't think he would have appreciated them at that stage. But I had to be honest.'
Anil Kumble arrived in Lucknow on Sunday for the 'Pran Prathishta' ceremony
'Fan wars should never go this ugly a route. One should remember which country these players represent -- our country. So, then what warrants a cricketer getting booed?'
IMAGES from the IPL 2024 Eliminator played between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rajasthan Royals in Ahmedabad, on Wednesday.
Rahul Dravid hopes that he doesn't call it quits anytime soon. Ravi Shastri would like to see him harass batters for at least two more years while Anil Kumble finds it perplexing that he isn't a regular in India's overseas fixtures.
Sachin Tendulkar led the chorus of former and current cricketers, hailing Rohit Sharma's men for winning the T20 World Cup.
Hetmeyer or Powell? Whose catch stunned you?
'All of these guys who are opposing the Supreme Court judgment are from dominant scheduled caste communities and none of them come from the scavenging community.' 'Not a single scavenging leader will oppose this Supreme Court judgment.'
The veteran spinner made his World Cup comeback after a long wait of eight years.
Lots of catches were plucked in New Delhi on Tuesday. Vote your favourite catch!
Australia spinner Adam Zampa said he withdrew from the Indian Premier League (IPL) because he felt drained after last year's heavy schedule and that he wanted to be rested ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup in June.
Even while bringing the curtains down on his T20I stint, Jadeja was in the shadows of the icons.
India has never won a Test series in South Africa and the two Test series, which begins on Boxing Day, December 26, at the SuperSport Park cricket stadium in Centurion, is the last frontier to be overcome for Rohit and his contemporaries Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammad Shami.
Mumbai Indians have once again made a familiar disappointing start to their IPL campaign as they lost their first two matches.
Was it Sandeep Sharma?
Images from the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals in Chennai on Sunday.
Virat Kohli feels that opposition bowlers want him to go hammer and tongs every time he comes out to bat, but he prefers adapting to match conditions without any predetermined strategy as he did in his unbeaten century against Rajasthan Royals in an IPL match on Saturday.
Bazball is fine, but England Test team needs common sense: Boycott
Michael Vaughan feels England have discovered a 'world-class superstar' in young off-spinner Shoaib Bashir
'I'm trying to do what I am doing well. Some days it comes good and some days it doesn't, (but) I'm not thinking much.'
Ravichandran Ashwin's childhood coach Sunil Subramanian wished the experienced off-spinner ahead of his 100th Test as India is set to lock horns with England in the fifth and final Test of the five-match series at Dharamsala from Thursday.
A look at the best fielding efforts on Sunday...
This is Ravichandran Ashwin's sixth stint at the top of the rankings. He first became number one in December 2015.
KKR Mentor Gautam Gambhir was all ears as Virat Kohli did all the talking.
Ravichandran Ashwin revealed how he was left in tears after his wife Prithi broke out the news of mother's hospitalisation.
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