Dhoni's men will be slight favourites as it will be Bairstow's last game
The curse of stardom, especially in a country like India -- which wants its Gods to be tidy and punctilious -- is that stardom forces you to stop exploring the frozen sea inside you, and instead inspires you more and more to perform out of a small puddle, observes Sreehari Nair.
Cheteshwar Pujara held his position and remained the best-placed Indian batsman at the seventh spot, while R Ashwin was also steady at the same position in the bowlers' chart of the latest ICC Test rankings issued on Tuesday.
Former captain Rahul Dravid threw his weight behind India discard and Rajasthan Royals team-mate Ajinkya Rahane saying the youngster deserves a longer run in international cricket.
Images from Day 1 of the third and final Test between India and New Zealand in Indore on Saturday.
Photos of the day four play of the second Test between India and South Africa, being played in Durban
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
The series is even more important for Kohli as it would also define his legacy as a leader having already established himself as world's premier batsman.
Day 2 in the second Test between South Africa and India was all about the Dale Steyn, even as Murali Vijay missed out on a hundred.
Indian opener Murali Vijay put Australia to the sword in their Brisbane fortress with a brilliant 144 to help drive the tourists to 311 for four at the close of play on the opening day of the second Test.
Steve Smith is not 'temperamentally sound enough' to lead Australia, says former spinner Kerry O'Keeffe.
Sourav Ganguly is likely to sit on the special committee to determine category-placements of the 20 players to be awarded contracts by the BCCI.
Former BCCI president and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association supremo N Srinivasan has made it clear that he would like star players Ravichandran Ashwin and Murali Vijay to play for the state during their upcoming Ranji Trophy quarter-final tie against Karnataka from December 23.
The team from Chennai's SRM University, comprising of Anita Mohil, Balakrishnan Solaraju Murali and Michael Thomas along with their academic mentor Sakhtivel Kasinath, is among the five finalists of a global competition organised by aircraft manufacturer Airbus and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
The researchers, including those from the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) in Hyderabad, advise testing asymptomatic primary and secondary contacts followed by surveillance.
Statistical highlights after opening day's play in the first cricket Test between India and New Zealand in Kanpur on Thursday.
Images from the opening day of the first Test match between India and New Zealand in Kanpur, on Thursday.
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IMAGES from Day 3 of the 3rd Test played between South Africa and India at the Wanderers stadium in Johannesburg on Friday
The latest game in the Grand Theft Auto series is here and it will blow your mind says Murali Venukumar.
Images of the third day's play of the second Test between India and Sri Lanka being played in Colombo.
He will have to fight it out with the in-form KL Rahul and a solid Murali Vijay for one of the opening slots in the playing XI of the Test team but Shikhar Dhawan terms the competition "good for Indian cricket" and finds "nothing wrong with it". "I am aware that there could be three players for two (opening) spots. But there is nothing wrong in it. In fact it is good for Indian cricket. To have healthy competitions among players for places in the team is good for Indian cricket and the game in general.
CSK have been on a roll with three wins on the trot that have boosted them to the top of the table.
Appearing in his 200th and final Test, iconic Indian batsman achin Tendulkar's willow sported a new look when he walked ut to bat at the Wankhede stadium on Thursday.
Images from Day 2 of the fourth and final Test between India and Australia in Dharamsala, on Sunday.
CSK, with their experience of winning important moments, will certainly make Capitals wary.
Courtesy his 153-run knock against Australia in the Mohali Test, India opener Murali Vijay has jumped 16 places to career-best rank of the 43rd but Cheteshwar Pujara dropped out of top-10 in the latest ICC rankings for Test batsmen.
Team India did well to win the Mohali Test against Australia, despite a day being washed out. A progress report on the team.
The left-hander suffered the injury while taking a single off Sunil Narine's bowling and limped off. He struggled to run subsequently and holed out off Narine's bowling.
Images from Match No.13 of the Champions League T20 between Chennai Super Kings and Brisbane Heat at the JSCA stadium in Ranchi on Saturday.
The script is inspired from a story which was narrated in 1996 Malayalam film Azhakiya Ravanan.
'It is the ability to fight back.' 'Obviously, you need skill to win a game of cricket, but the biggest thing is the resilience and the conviction to bounce back and the conviction to go and win abroad or anywhere.' 'I think that conviction is what stands out.'
His breathtaking unbeaten 99 set up Chennai Super Kings's 77-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Wednesday, but a modest Suresh Raina credited his batting colleagues for the comprehensive victory in their IPL encounter.
Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers to take note of at the end of the first day's play in the third Test between India and South Africa.
He said the Finance Minister assured the delegation that the Financial Services Secretary would look into the matter and the settlement process would be expedited.
Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming on Saturday said wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha is carrying injuries and his fitness will be assessed before the Pepsi Indian Premier League game against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
Being average may not be a bad thing, but the best thing that can be said about the Bureau is that it doesn't kill the XCOM brand.
Kings XI Punjab released explosive South Africa batsman David Miller after eight IPL seasons along with Englishman Sam Curran and Australian pacer Andrew Tye.
They might have been disappointing so far but Indian opener Murali Vijay is still hopeful that the Indian spinners will utilise the spin-friendly conditions on the final day. Scorecard: "It's a pretty good wicket, (though it has) gone slower. There's a lot of assistance to the spinners now. Hopefully we can put some pressure in the morning session get some wickets and you never know," said Vijay after the fourth day's play at the SCA Stadium in Rajkot. Vijay feels that India still have the edge.
India's chief coach Ravi Shastri feels that Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara should remain in the top bracket when the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Committee of Administrators (COA) thrash out the revised central contracts based on the new remuneration structure.
