The first Test will start on Thursday, with the second scheduled for May 7-11 at the same venue.
India captain Virat Kohli and senior batsman Rohit Sharma retained their number one and two position respectively in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen, while pacer Jasprit Bumrah remained at the third spot in the bowler's list.
The main issue with football in the country is the lack of a robust league structure.
Netherlands' Kingma gets four-match suspension for ball-tampering.
From the 12th over onwards, Virat Kohli hit 67 from his last 29 balls, scoring at a strike rate in excess of 200 to take the match away from Pakistan's grasp in great style.
India Test wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha on Thursday made it all but clear that he is out of India's Afghanistan Test match owing to a thumb injury.
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Martin Guptill will play in his seventh T20 World Cup and Devon Conway will keep wickets in addition to his batting duties at the tournament
India have only themselves to blame for their below-par showing in the Asia Cup as they struggled to put up consistent performances with both bat and ball.
India have won the Asia Cup on seven occasions, Sri Lanka on five occasions, with Pakistan winning it twice.
Sunil Chhetri likened the national team setup with his home and expressed his relief at returning to where he belongs
Shakib Al Hasan was initially named in the ODI and Test squads for the South Africa tour.
The Indian team management has decided not to risk injured opener Rohit Sharma for the do-or-die tri-series game against England on January 30 and the final, in case India makes it.
A struggling India escaped with a 1-1 draw against lower-ranked Bangladesh in their FIFA World Cup second round qualifying match in Kolkata.
'Shaheen's absence big setback for Pakistan'
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar picked pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar over fellow-speedster Mohammed Shami, who took a sensational last over hat-trick against Afghanistan, for India's World Cup match against the West Indies in Manchester on Thursday.
Thimpu apparently didn't think it necessary to take Delhi into confidence. Bhutan is loathe to getting dragged into the geopolitical rivalry between India and China. And for Beijing, this was too good an opportunity to be missed to thumb its nose at the powers-that-be in Delhi, points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'We're hitting at the core strength of our armed forces.'
IMAGES from the World Cup match played between India and Afghanistan in Southampton on Saturday
Pooran was handed a four-match suspension after admitting to ball-tampering
Like life, elite sports can at the same time be cruel as well demanding. Virat Kohli had faced that for the past three years when he faced the run drought.
Talismanic captain Sunil Chhetri will return to the national team during next month's Asian Cup qualifiers
Injury will keep India's key players out of the match against Afghanistan in the AFC Challenge Cup in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
The road ahead will be long and winding and much resistance can be expected from the high-flying 'hawks' in our skies. But that should not deter the policymakers from planning a road map with the 'big picture' in mind, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Ravichandran Ashwin says it's too early to comment on Rahul Dravid's coaching style but the premier India spinner is confident that happiness will be back in the dressing room under the stalwart's guidance.
Afghanistan speedster Shapoor Zadran wants the stereotypical perception to change.
India batter Shreyas Iyer, spinner Yuzvendra Chahal along with Australian dasher David Warner are expected to be the top draws as over 1,200 players registered themselves for the Indian Premier League mega auction scheduled for next month.
Any public criticism of umpiring decisions invites sanctions from the ICC and Dhoni chose his words very carefully.
Chapman, Astle picked in New Zealand T20 World Cup squad; Veteran Ross Taylor ignored.
'They must be hiding somewhere in a country where the Taliban would not even spare a 4-year-old girl.'
Neither the batting has worked nor has the bowling clicked in the two matches played so far.
The fast bowler missed the 2011 and 2015 World Cups as a result of a five-year ban for match-fixing.
Cummins has already made it clear that he would not be taking part in the remaining matches of the IPL
'They didn't speak Hindi or English, but love is a universal language.'
Bumrah was placed at the second position with 719 points in the bowling chart.
Senior opener Tamim Iqbal opted out of Bangladesh's upcoming tour of India as his wife is due with the couple's second child.
Put in to bat, India's rejigged top order wilted in no time and the 2007 champions crawled to 110-7 in 20 overs in the Super 12 match. The below-par total was unlikely to test New Zealand's batting might and so it proved.
Australia and India are currently gearing up for the four-match Test series. The first Test will get underway on Thursday at the Adelaide Oval and it will be a day-night contest.
Blue Tigers rise to third spot.
'Pakistan has worsted India in the Afghan proxy war and the defeat becomes a template of regional politics,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
