Ashwin's 266 wickets at home have come at an average of 22.67.
The 1983 World Cup winning captain said that the batting slots should be decided according to the match situation.
Deepika, Ranveer's romantic banter.
Retired, former Test cricketer Dhoni was in the city for a commercial shoot with another former skipper Kapil Dev.
Glenn Maxwell battled cramps to produce an innings of a lifetime to guide Australia to a three-wicket win over Afghanistan.
Virat Kohli was joined by wife Anushka Sharma as the star India batter was felicitated for reaching the milestone of 100 Test matches, in Mohali on Friday.
The 32-year-old Sharma reached the milestone in 98 matches, more than the other Indian bowlers in the club.
Ravindra Jadeja's batting average of 41.90 in away Tests in the last three years is the highest by an Indian batsman having played 10 innings or more. Rajneesh Gupta presents all the interesting numbers from Day 3 of the India-England Test at Trent Bridge.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's decision to bowl his seam-up stuff during the second day of the Lord's Test on Friday came under severe criticism from former India captain Kapil Dev.
Calling Mahendra Singh Dhoni one of the best finishers in limited-overs game, cricket legend Kapil Dev has backed the Indian captain to continue leading the team in all three formats and said there should not be any question about his replacement.
'Congratulations MS Dhoniji and CSK. We are happy that at least some sportspersons are getting respect and love they deserve. For us, the fight for justice is still on,' Sakshi said in her tweet, which received more than 50,000 likes and nearly 10,000 retweets in 12 hours.
'I think it is very difficult to compare (M S Dhoni and Virat Kohli) because both have different teams and different attitude' 'If you do not win matches abroad, you cannot become number one in the world'
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh played the perfect hosts during the wrap-up party of their film, '83.
Half a century after he left school, A Ganesh Nadar attends a school reunion.
History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, Norma Astrid Godinho/Rediff.com takes a walk down memory lane, recounting India's sojourns Down Under from 1947 to 2021, in a 4-part series.
India will not call of the Australian tour after Harbhajan Singh was banned for three Test matches.
Beijing Olympic bronze medallist Sushil Kumar on Monday got engaged to Savi, daughter of his coach Satpal Singh, at a private ceremony in New Delhi attended by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
Hardik Pandya had a dream debut picking three crucial wickets in the first ODI against New Zealand in Dharamsala on Sunday. The 23-year old allrounder, who received the India cap from legendary allrounder Kapil Dev ahead of the game, also bagged the Man-of-the-Match award for his bowling effort. Opening the bowling for the first time in his international career, Pandya struck in his first over dismissing the dangerous Martin Guptill. "The ball was doing a lot; it was swinging. I knew if I put it in the right spots, something would happen. Two balls went for fours, but I had backed myself that something will happen. The captain was always supporting me.
'I was seven years old in 1983. I never heard about that historic win because we did not have a radio set in our village.'
'This is the first time when you see the story of the Azad Hind Fauj through the eyes of the soldiers.'
'I have seen Bishan paaji get worked up when he felt the game was losing its character because of some individual.'
Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, K L Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya: Who will succeed Rohit Sharma after he retires?
Arguably among the best in his trade across cricketing generations, star India speedster Jasprit Bumrah celebrated his 30th birthday on Wednesday.
He can walk into any Indian team on a given day but former captain Kapil Dev decided to keep himself "out" of the best-ever Indian ODI line-up which he feels should be led by another limited overs legend Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Chopra expressed his disappointment a day after Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha came down heavily on the wrestlers for hitting the streets to resume their protests instead of approaching its athletes' commission to lodge their complaints against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah, on Sunday, met Mahendra Singh Dhoni as part of the party's 'Sampark for Samarthan'
A look at the significant milestones and achievements of Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Friday.
Former captain Kapil Dev on Monday expressed amazement at the pace at which the current Indian cricket team settled into a formidable outfit despite losing, one after another, some of the world's top players over the last few years. "There is no team in the world, after losing their legendary players, bounced back quicker than this Indian team. Normally, once the great players go in a bunch, a team needs at least five to seven years to come back. But this Indian team has come back so quickly, I have never seen something like this. I am amazed," Kapil told PTI in New Delhi.
The Big B -- alongwith Kapil Dev -- lent support to Navjot Singh Sidhu, during the launch of the latter's website.
Kapil assured that his panel will do their job to the best of their ability.
Bishan Singh Bedi once invited Pakistani cricketers Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, Mudassar Nazar and others for dinner in Australia and cooked delectable food for the 25-odd guests, says a new book.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's inspirational leadership guided India to a memorable triumph at the inaugural World Twenty20 Championship in South Africa in 2007. With the fifth edition of the tournament set to commence on Sunday, Rediff.com takes you through Team India's thrilling triumph in the final.
Virat Kohli will join the elite company of eleven other Indians and a total of 70 other players across the various countries to complete the century of Test match appearances.
Former Indian captains Bishan Singh Bedi and Kapil Dev lauded the Indian cricket team for winning both one-day and Test match series against West Indies and complimented captain Dhoni for achieving this unique feat.
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin created history as he became the first Indian cricketer to pick 30 wickets or more in a Test series on two separate occasions.
Harbhajan Singh has been picked for the Chennai Test and becomes the ninth player to play 100th Test matches for India.
Despite the presence of legendary sprinter Milkha Singh, cricketer Kapil Dev and Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, the Queen's Baton Relay for the Commonwealth Games received a cold response in Chandigarh, on Saturday.
Wading through the long list of biopics coming up, Subhash K Jha picks the ones likely to make a mark.
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