Eden Gardens in Kolkata will host the final of the World Twenty20 next year, the BCCI said on Tuesday.
The Pakistan team management has advised its players to stay away from the Indian media and concentrate on the first Test, reports said.
India plans to issue 10,000 visas to Pakistani fans to witness the first Test match in Mohali in Punjab.
The players were forced to take turns to board a small plane out of New Delhi on Tuesday because Dharamsala only has a small airstrip.
Stung by an improved New Zealand the other night, a wary India would like to quickly get their house in order when they square off with Kane Williamson's boys in the third ODI in Mohali on Sunday. While the six-run defeat in Delhi has given India plenty to ponder about, it has also renewed interest in the contest which had been dominated by the home team prior to Thursday, stretching from the one-sided Test series to the first ODI in Dharamsala. From the New Zealand point of view, a victory was all that they needed after a string of deflating defeats. As a result of their first win on Indian soil in 13 years, one can expect a certain spring in the stride of the visitors when they take the field at the PCA Stadium in Mohali.
Here is how the record of highest run-scorer in Tests has changed hands (from 1000 runs onwards).
It's less than a year since he made his debut, in the first Test against India at Mohali, but Kagiso Rabada has emerged South Africa's leading cricketer. The 21-year-old fast bowler was named South African's youngest ever Cricketer of the Year and also scooped up five other awards at a gala hosted by Cricket South Africa.
For anyone, who has followed Jayant Yadav over the years, his maiden Test century won't come as a surprise. - Scorecard Brought into the Indian team primarily as an off-spinner, Haryana's Yadav boasts of an impressive first class record with the bat -- having scored 1665 runs in 44 matches at an average of nearly 30, comprising of two centuries. With the ball too he has a very good record, claiming 125 wickets in 44 games and recently did well during India A's tour of Australia where he took seven wickets in the two four-day unofficial Test matches.
India have not lost a series at home since the defeat to South Africa in October 2015.
They are the team's leading performers, but Lokesh Rahul and Chris Gayle's batting in the Powerplay overs was one of the "massive problems", opined Kings XI Punjab skipper Ravichandran Ashwin after team failed to make it to the play-offs in Season 12 of the Indian Premier League.
India were all out for 453 in their first innings on the second day of the second Test against England in Mohali on Saturday
Opener Gautam Gambhir says the hundred he scored on the first day of the second Test against England is special because the ball was doing quite a bit in the morning and India was six for one at that stage.
Ravichandran Ashwin may have had a huge role in instilling self doubt in the England batsmen but his spin partner Ravindra Jadeja reckons that is has also got a lot to do with which team is dominating the proceedings.
'Not taking the first innings lead was the turning point,' said the Pakistan skipper after losing the second Test against India by 195 runs.
India are likely to go into the second Test against Pakistan with two seamers and two spinners.
Heavy overnight rain forced a 30-minute delay in the start of play on the third day of the second Test between India and England.
The two India Test players have been named in the Delhi squad for the Ranji Trophy match against Mumbai.
Breaking his silence on the on-field clash between Australia skipper Ricky Ponting and Brett Lee, coach Tim Nielsen said a poor over-rate wasn't the main reason the strike bowler was not used in the first session on the fourth day of the second Test in Mohali. It was, he says, also because they wanted to take pace off the ball.
The visitors were 102 for 4 at stumps, after India posted a formidable first innings score of 469, on Day 2 of the second Test.
The Indian selectors retained the same 15-member squad for the third and fourth one-day internationals against Pakistan.
'Not having the best bowler in the world is never a nice thing.' 'It is not the name that we play, it is a cricket ball that we face.'
'The fitness parameters of the current Indian team are the best that it has ever been,' says the coach.
Cricketers from across the world reacted with surprise and lavished praise on Mahendra Singh Dhoni after the India captain on Tuesday decided to call it quits in the Test format.
Kevin Pietersen had first offered his resignation as captain after last month's drawn second Test against India in Mohali but he was advised to sleep over it before taking a final call, disclosed England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) vice-chairman Dennis Amiss. Amiss said Pietersen is a "marvellous, exciting" player whose future commitment is strongly welcomed.
Rahul Dravid said on Thursday that he decided to play for Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy's quarter-final against Saurashtra on the request of the state side and not from a personal point of view.
With the wicket hardly assisting batsmen, all-rounder Andrew Flintoff today said anything more than four per over will be a difficult chase for England on the fifth and final day of the second cricket Test against India in Mohali.
After bundling out England for 302 in the first innings, India were 44 for 3 at one stage but recovered to end Day 4 in the second Test on 134 for 4, an overall lead of 285 runs.
Thick fog delayed the start of the third day's play in the second and final Test between India and England in Mohali on Sunday. The match was scheduled to start at 0900 hours IST but the misty conditions resulted in poor visibility and umpires Daryl Harper and Asad Rauf decided to delay the start.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday revealed the team think-tank is toying with the idea of dropping off-colour Rahul Dravid in the batting order but said it is in two minds fearing the ploy may boomerang in the second and final Test against England in Mohali. Dhoni, however, once again threw his weight behind the senior batsman and said once he manages to survive the early overs, things would be alright for Dravid.
With a new-found aura of invincibility around them, a domineering India will seek to plot a second whitewash of England when the two teams clash in the second and final Test in Mohali on Friday. Apart from hearts -- by defying terror and continuing with the tour -- the team under Kevin Pietersen has not won anything in India. An Indian win in Mohali would be a double blow for the Englishmen who were blanked 5-0 in the ODI series on the other side of the Mumbai attacks.
Saurashtra left-arm pacer Jaydev Unadkat has been recalled, while India also have three first-timers in Washington Sundar, Basil Thampi and Deepak Hooda for the three-match T20 series against Sri Lanka.
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