India's One-day International captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was back at the helm for the limited-overs' leg against South Africa next month.
Pakistan has the upper hand in the Champions Trophy, winning three of the five matches against India.
With the nets session in full flow, Virat Kohli and his men sweated it out under the blazing Nagpur sun.
Former India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and tennis legend Leander Paes were spotted in Mumbai enjoying a session of football together.
India went in with the same side that won the opening Test by six wickets in Chennai. For England, Stuart Broad, who missed the first Test due to a hamstring injury, replaced Steve Harmison.
Captain Virat Kohli and his deputy Rohit Sharma were the first to hit the nets as the frontline pacers like Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Shami gave the session a miss in order to recover for Wednesday's game.
Former India batting coach Sanjay Bangar, on the other hand, feels that Pandya has the ability to replicate Mahendra Singh Dhoni's role as a finisher in the Indian ODI set-up.
Describing Sachin Tendulkar as his role model, India ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has said that iconic batsman's humility and passion for the game was an inspiration for him and others.
India head coach Ravi Shastri is eagerly waiting to see the much-awaited clash between Mahendra Singh Dhoni's CSK and Rishabh Pant's Delhi Capitals, to be played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday.
MS Dhoni shared growling glimpse of tiger from Kanha visit
India rested skipper Rahul Dravid along with Sachin Tendulkar, who also sat out the one-off ODI against Scotland in Glasgow on Monday.
Rohit Sharma notched up another milestone in his career as he became only the second opener to go past the landmark of 300 sixes in One-Day Internationals.
After the accident and the kind of rehabilitation that he had to go through, this knock will be right up there, says Rishabh Pant's coach Devender Sharma.
'I was standing inside the dressing room, and he was coming inside, where there was a small water bottle. MS just kicked it out of the park. I was like, 'S**t, oh my god!'
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India's World Cup winning captain, has done a volte-face on his earlier statement.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and opted to bat first against Sri Lanka in the second one-day international in Colombo on Saturday. The visitors, who won the first game by six wickets in Dambulla, made two changes to their team, opener Virender Sehwag returning from injury in place of Rohit Sharma and seam bowler Praveen Kumar replacing the injured Munaf Patel.
India created history on Friday by taking over as the number one team in the ICC ODI rankings. Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his boys outclassed New Zealand by six wickets in the second match of the tri-series in Colombo, on Friday, which also ensured that they toppled South Africa from the top of the rankings
Rishabh Pant broke Mahendra Singh Dhoni's record to become the fastest Indian wicketkeeper to reach 100 dismissals, during the first Test against South Africa in Centurion on Tuesday.
RCB handed CSK a 50-run thrashing -- their biggest defeat at home in the IPL.
Gautam Gambhir and Mahendra Singh Dhoni catch up after the CSK-LSG game.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field against England in the fifth One-Day International at the Barabati stadium in Cuttack on Wednesday. India brought in left-arm pacer Irfan Pathan in place of Munaf Patel and Rohit Sharma replaced the in-form Gautam Gambhir.
Considering the vehement anti-China stance across the nation after the Galwan incident of June 15/16, there was barely a squeal of outrage about the Dhoni-OPPO tie-up on social media, barring a couple of tweets.
Having succeeded Mahendra Singh Dhoni as India's Test captain, "King Kohli" overhauled India's approach to turn the team into a ruthless juggernaut that did not rely anymore on designer dustbowls to win Test matches.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni lost his bearings on the cricket field for the very first time as he rushed into the field of play to confront Indian umpire Ulhas Gandhe for not signalling a no ball, an act which certainly seemed out of line.
The Chinar Corps put out photographs and a video of the former captain while playing and interacting with the cricketers and the youths.
There will be a mega auction for the next IPL and the fast bowler feels he just wants to keep growing as a cricketer.
Former opener Shikhar Dhawan believes Rohit Sharma has matured as a leader over the years and shares a close bond with his teammates, which augurs well for the Indian team.
Cheteshwar Pujara elieves that a shift in playing philosophy is the need of the hour for CSK even if it means scoring at a quicker clip.
Chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, sprint queen P T Usha and football legend Bhaichung Bhutia are among the prominent sports personalities invited for Monday's ceremony.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Saturday changed his profile picture on Instagram to mark the 75 years of Indian Independence.
Ahead of the start of India's 3-match T20I series against New Zealand, Hardik Pandya and his mates -- Washington Sundar, Umran Malik, Shreyas Iyer, Arshdeep Singh, Shardul Thakur -- were spotted shirtless -- much like what Salman Khan used to do in the late 1990s and early 2000s -- at a lovely beach.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is quintessentially a modest man and no wonder he has politely declined to inaugurate the pavilion named after him at the JSCA Stadium, ahead of India's third ODI against Australia.
India's Test skipper Virat Kohli along with his limited-overs counterpart Mahendra Singh Dhoni had a special meeting with head coach Anil Kumble and U-19 coach Rahul Dravid in Bengaluru on Sunday. The meeting was also attended by chief national selector Sandeep Patil, GM (Cricket Operations) MV Sridhar, National Cricket Academy's batting coach WV Raman, spin bowling coach Narendra Hirwani, chairman of junior selection committee Venkatesh Prasad and team physio Andrew Leipus.
'At this stage, I want a senior cricketer to take up the captaincy and see the Indian team through this transition phase.'
Former pace bowler Ajit Agarkar said that the biggest challenge for new India captain Rohit Sharma will be to maintain his fitness and play every game till next year's ODI World Cup.
M S Dhoni may bat at No.7 or No. 8, which will allow him to showcase his big-hitting prowess at the back end of the innings, says former international Robin Uthappa.
The Delhi batsmen will vie for the opener's slot for India against Pakistan in the first ODI in Guwahati.
India have never lost to their neighbours, having beaten them in the previous five World Cup matches they have played -- in 1992, 1996, 1999, 2003 and 2011.
Chanchal Bhattacharya suggests, problems in the dressing room environment and media pressure hampering the ODI skipper's performance
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