Himself known for his delightful cover drivers, Bell thinks Virat Kohli plays his favourite shot the best among his peers.
However, the 26-year-old's comparison with Gilchrist can wait.
Sachin Tendulkar led the cricketing world in applauding Sri Lankan veterans Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, who bowed out of ODIs after their team's World Cup quarter-final loss to South Africa in Sydney.
ICC Match Referee Roshan Mahanama joined his countrymen in the protest against the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government in Colombo.
Statistical highlights from the abandoned match between Australia and Sri Lanka in Colombo on Saturday.
Between 2014 and 2019, he scored 21 centuries in just 55 Tests. Among these were seven double centuries, the most by an Indian in Test cricket. Remarkably, six of those double tons came within a span of just 22 Tests.
He achieved the feat in his 490th innings on Day 1 of the fourth Test against England, at The Oval, before being dismissed by Ollie Robinson for 50, his 27th half-century in the longest format.
While India have been busy with their preparations in Sri Lanka, focus among the locals is slowly shifting to their heroic batsman Kumar Sangakkara.
Virat Kohli became the sixth and the fastest batter in the world to score 25,000 runs across formats during the second Test against Australia in Delhi on Sunday.
Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara was presented with a complimentary pass of the F1 Indian Grand Prix 2012 to mark the commencement of the sale of tickets for the mega-event, scheduled to take place at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) in Greater Noida on October 28.
Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara and fast bowler Nuwan Kulasekara are winning their battle to be fit for this month's Twenty20 World Cup on home soil.
India's Smriti Mandhana slammed the joint fastest half-century in women's T20 cricket as she propelled Western Storm to a 18-run victory against Loughborough Lightning in a rain-hit match in the Kia Super League in Taunton, on Sunday.
In an appointment backed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, former India leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan replaced Tim May as a players' representative on the ICC Cricket Committee.
Sri Lanka, who won the tournament in 1996 before making consecutive finals in 2007 and 2011, enter the 2019 edition on a difficult recent run of form.
Mahela Jayawardena pays a heartfelt tribute to newly inducted ICC Hall of Famer Aravinda de Silva.
Images from the IPL played between Rajasthan vs Hyderabad on Saturday.
Simon Katich has been named the head coach of their Cape Town franchise in the new T20 league in South Africa.
Statistical highlights of the third cricket One-day international between India and Sri Lanka in Uppal.
Statistical highlights of the Group A match between Sri Lanka and Australia at the ICC Champions Trophy in London on Monday night.
His mother sold her gold chain so Dhruv could buy a cricket kit after his father, a Kargil War veteran, told him to give up the game because it was too expensive.
Star India opener Gautam Gambhir emerged No 1 Test batsman again after Kumar Sangakkara and Michael Clarke slipped down the rankings following not-too-good showing in recent matches.
Uncapped opening batsman Dilshan Munaweera and schoolboy off-spinner Akila Dananjaya were named in Sri Lanka's 15-man squad on Thursday for the Twenty20 World Cup on home soil next month.
Legendary West Indies batsman Sir Vivian Richards is of the opinion that Sachin Tendulkar is probably one of the two batsmen in modern era who had seamless adjusted their game according to their needs across all three formats.
Just two years after winning it, senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar was once again nominated for the ICC People's Choice award.
Sri Lanka's sports ministry on Friday ordered an investigation into former sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage's allegation that their loss to India in the 2011 World Cup final was fixed by "certain parties". Sports minister Dullas Alahapperuma has ordered the investigation and asked for a report on its progress every two weeks, the ministry said in a statement.
Rohit became only the second batsman, after Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, to score four hundreds at a single World Cup
Sri Lanka's star off-spinner is likely to miss Wednesday's first Twenty20 International against India because of a bruised ligament injury on his fingers, visiting captain Kumar Sangakkara said on Tuesday.
Out of six finals played, India have won three World titles, including two ODI World Cups (1983 and 2011) and one T20 World Cup in 2007.
Statistical highlights of the Indian Premier League match between Deccan Chargers and Pune Warriors in Cuttack on Tuesday.
Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara has described his match-winning unbeaten knock of 134 against England in the Champions Trophy, as one of the best innings of his career.
The International Cricket Council on Friday said there is no reason to doubt the integrity of the 2011 World Cup final in which India defeated Sri Lanka, asserting that it has not been provided any evidence that would merit an investigation into the game. The world body's statement came after Sri Lanka Police's special investigation division on Friday called off a probe into allegations by former sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage that the final was fixed by "certain parties" in Sri Lanka. The police said it found no evidence supporting Aluthgamage's unsubstantiated claims.
South Africa's AB de Villiers and Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara will take their battle for the coveted No 1 spot in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen to Sydney when they go head-to-head in the first quarter-final of the World Cup.
Following are the statistical highlights of day four of the third and final India-Sri Lanka Test match in Mumbai.
Sri Lanka duo Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara shared a double-century partnership before Pakistan hit back by grabbing three late wickets on the fourth day of the second Test on Tuesday.
Deccan Chargers on Tuesday registered only their second victory in IPL V and opener Shikhar Dhawan attributed the 13-run win to the third-wicket stand between Kumar Sangakkara and Cameron White.
Rudi Koertzen has apologised to Kumar Sangakkara after mistakenly giving him out on the final day of the second Test against Australia.
Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has been appointed the national team's consultant for the first round of next month's Twenty20 World Cup, the country's cricket board said.
# Kumar Sangakkara took his dismissals' tally to 13 (12 catches + 1 stumping) in nine matches in the IPL -- the most by a wicketkeeper.
Sri Lanka appointed former captain Marvan Atapattu as the team's batting coach for the England tour, which gets underway next month.
Rajasthan Royals' skipper Shane Warne feels that dismissing Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara and dashing South African batsman JP Duminy was turning point during their eight-wicket win in Hyderabad on Saturday.
