Virat Kohli, who is set to play his landmark 100th Test against Sri Lanka at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali, hit the nets on Sunday.
If Ricky Ponting is to be believed, the Australians are refraining from doing what has, over the years, become a characteristic feature about their brand of cricket. 'We're focusing only on our game, on the look-out to find means to improve our game and give ourselves a good chance to play our best cricket,' Australia's captain said.
A round-up of the first day's play in the Ranji Trophy matches across the country, on Tuesday.
Over 100 Indian institutions offer semiconductor design curricula, but hardly any of them focuses on manufacturing and process technology, a top official from global memory and storage major Micron Technology said on Thursday. There is significant global demand for such chip engineers, its president and chief executive Sanjay Mehrotra said at the 10th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar. "While more than 100 Indian institutions provide a semiconductor design curriculum, hardly any focus on semiconductor manufacturing and process technology.
Shikhar Dhawan says he will be under no pressure when he makes his Test debut against Australia in the third Test at Mohali after having performed well in the domestic season.
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As per reports, the upcoming edition of the 2023 ODI World Cup is set to get underway on October 5 and the final is set to be held in Ahmedabad.
Veteran batter Cheteshwar Pujara slammed his second hundred of the ongoing Ranji Trophy season, guiding Saurashtra to a comfortable 242 for four against Rajasthan on the opening day of their Group A match, in Jaipur on Friday.
An aggressive, and to extent reckless start, was followed by a shocking collapse that witnessed the visitors slump from 49 without loss to 58 for five. At stumps on day four of the second Test, Australia was 141 for five, still 375 runs adrift of the Indian target, and to put it bluntly, staring at defeat, with the fifth day's play being a mere formality.
Delhi registered a smooth eight-wicket win in a Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Group E match in Dehradun on Saturday.
'Selectors should have a clear idea about him (Pujara). Do they need him to play Test cricket anymore or do they want to continue with youngsters and communicate it to him. Somebody like Pujara can't be dropped, then picked, dropped again and then picked. Same with Ajinkya Rahane also.'
Australia's coach Tim Nielsen admitted that his bowlers failed to deliver vis--vis their Indian counterparts in the second Test in Mohali.
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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.
Yashasvi Jaiswal stole the limelight with a classy century on Day 2 of the first Test on Thursday.
The series starts with the first T20I in Mohali on Thursday, and Afghanistan will look to take inspiration from their impressive outing in the ODI World Cup in October-November last year to prepare in earnest for the upcoming T20 World Cup.
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Vihari, Gill and Iyer have all played Tests for India in the absence of regular players and Rohit said a decision on the composition of the side against Sri Lanka was yet to be made.
John Wright said that team was hungrier for a win in Kolkata after failing to give the final push for victory in the Mohali Test.
The Pakistan cricket team management gave umpires Rudi Koertzen and Darrell Hair negative ratings.
The Indian skipper had returned to Kolkata on Friday night complaining of pain in the affected area.\n\n
The India and Sri Lanka players wore black armbands and observed a minute's silence before the start of second day's play in the first Test in Mohali on Saturday in memory of Australian legends Shane Warne and Rodney Marsh, both of whom passed away within hours of each other on Friday.
India 'A' skipper Hardik Pandya said the warm-up game against Australia would be a great opportunity for fringe players to impress the selectors.
India spinners once again held centre-stage as the hosts produced a clinical performance to cruise to a comfortable eight-wicket victory on the fourth day of the third cricket Test and take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
India will host England in a five-match Test series, the first of which starting November 9, in Rajkot. The series will be followed by a three-match One-Day International series and three Twenty20 Internationals respectively. The Test series will be followed by a three-match ODI series and three T20s respectively. England are scheduled to visit India for a long tour which is likely to end in the month of February.
India were dismissed for 105 in the first innings of their first Test against Australia on Friday. Below are India's lower totals in Test matches played on home soil.
The former India captain will be in Mohali on an invitation from the Punjab Cricket Association.
Indore is set to host its first-ever Test during the three-match series against New Zealand in September-October as India's top cricketers, in a unique way, on Tuesday, announced the full schedule of the tour that will kick start the team's home season.
A look at a few of the responses our readers had to the draw in the first Test at Mohali.
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Shikhar Dhawan finds himself out of the Indian team less than three months after captaining the ODI side, but the 37-year-old opener has not yet given up on a strong desire to play the World Cup at home later this year.
