Konstas heads home but not out of Test team's plans
The tickets for the opening day of the fourth Test of the between India and Australia at MCG have been sold out.
Nathan McSweeney, who opened in the first three Tests with little success, has been dropped.
Hazlewood's inclusion is the only change to the home side who will look to take a 2-1 lead in the five-Test series.
Virat Kohli advanced four slots to ninth position after scores of 38 and 76 in the first Test against South Africa.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi for their pioneering work in the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), Al Jazeera reported.
Australia have dropped Marnus Labuschagne for next week's first Test against West Indies in Barbados
'The fact is he always needed a challenge. That's what got him going.'
The India skipper will be eyeing the great Don Bradman's 88-year-old record for most runs by a captain in a Test series.
The source added that team officials and selectors had discussed Afridi's case with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Zaka Ashraf.
Legendary Sunil Gavaskar on Saturday said he was at a loss for words and overwhelmed after his statue was unveiled during the inauguration of the MCA Sharad Pawar Cricket Museum at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
From facing Dennis Lillee to filming with Dharmendra, Mohsin Khan goes back in time in a freewheeling interview.
'But we'll savour this for a couple of hours at least and then it'll be recovery for the next few days.'
With a heavy downpour preventing the resumption of play after the break, the match was abandoned and the series remains locked at 1-1.
Boland is ready to step in once again for Josh Hazlewood, continuing the role of the perfect first substitute that has defined his 11-Test career.
Steely Jadeja completes 7,000 international runs, joins Ganguly, Dhoni, Pant.
'It's unfair to disrupt the balance of the team just to accommodate a big-name player who is out of form.'
'You can still play your natural game in a team sport but if the team needs you you need to play in a certain way.'
Wouldn't be surprised if Virat Kohli and Sam Konstas share a smiling photo post-match: Stuart Clark
England lead 2-1 in the series and victory at Old Trafford would seal it.
Sam Konstas has vowed to take a more conventional approach than in his early Test appearances for Australia
'The prospect of Konstas facing Jofra Archer with the first ball of the Ashes on November 21 -- potentially delivered at 155km/h -- doesn't feel like a fair fight.'
The seeds of India's defeat were sown in Melbourne, where Bumrah had to bowl 53.2 overs -- 24.4 in the second innings on the back of 28.4 in the first innings. With just three days to recover, that was an inhuman burden on a bowler who had bowled 151 overs in this series.
Harshit Rana could pose a strong challenge to senior teammate Prasidh Krishna as they battle it out for the third pacer's slot in the India playing XI for the opening Test against Australia in Perth.
Anand alleged he was then slashed and stabbed with the machete on his shoulder and back.
Star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has called for an improved performance from India's batting unit in the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, saying the lack of runs from the top-order builds pressure on the lower-order.
'The captain of a country doesn't opt out of the final Test match of a series, a final-deciding Test match.'
Yashasvi Jaiswal continued his meteoric rise in international cricket with yet another outstanding overseas tour
India's cricketers and staff have been cleared of COVID-19
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Change will be a key theme for both the West Indies and Australia in their upcoming three-Test series in the Caribbean with the visitors set to field a remodelled batting line-up and the hosts being led out for the first time by Roston Chase.
Karun Nair's struggles at the crucial No. 3 position is a big headache for Team India.
Former India batter Yuvraj Singh believes players struggling for form should return to domestic cricket, regardless of their national team stature, amid the debate over Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma playing Ranji Trophy.
Cricket Australia (CA) plan to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first ever Test match
Speaking ahead of the first Test from June 25 onwards at Barbados, Joseph said as quoted by Sydney Morning Herald, "To take 13 wickets across the series was a good feeling. A lot has changed. There were a lot of opportunities that came my way."
Captain Joe Root has denied trying to heap the blame on his bowlers for England's poor start to the Ashes series but insists they must be braver with the length of their bowling in the now crucial third Test.
Hazlewood was initially named in the squad for South Africa, will also return home following the Test series. Xavier Bartlett has been drafted in as his replacement.
Questions are mounting on when the 37-year-old India captain will finally call time on his Test career.
'When we go to Australia, they play India only at five Test centres. They don't play us in Canberra. They don't play us at any of the other venues where they won't be very familiar with the conditions. So do England'
While Sachin Tendulkar's 2013 farewell became a national pilgrimage, a vibrant celebration befitting a cricketing deity, the exits of many other Indian icons this century have been quieter journeys into the twilight.
