Images from Day 1 of the third and final Test between India and New Zealand in Indore on Saturday.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan believes the right blend of youth and experience makes India a formidable side and it would be great if they can emulate the past success of five-time World champions Australia.
The latest game in the Grand Theft Auto series is here and it will blow your mind says Murali Venukumar.
His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions. Siva Sankar pays tribute to S P Balasubrahmanyam, the legendary singer who passed into the ages on Friday.
Images of the third day's play of the second Test between India and Sri Lanka being played in Colombo.
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.
Steve Smith is not 'temperamentally sound enough' to lead Australia, says former spinner Kerry O'Keeffe.
Statistical highlights after opening day's play in the first cricket Test between India and New Zealand in Kanpur on Thursday.
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.
Images from the opening day of the first Test match between India and New Zealand in Kanpur, on Thursday.
Virat Kohli is the quickest among all subcontinent players to score 1,000 runs in Australia. Rajneesh Gupta has all the numbers.
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.
Out-of-form opener Shikhar Dhawan has tried to put up a defence after India lost the ongoing Test series to England, saying the players are also 'hurt' like the fans and followers of Indian cricket.
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.
Images from Day 2 of the fourth and final Test between India and Australia in Dharamsala, on Sunday.
IMAGES from Day 3 of the 3rd Test played between South Africa and India at the Wanderers stadium in Johannesburg on Friday
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.
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 West Indies captain believes his young team can do well in the triangular one-day series.
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.
Dhoni's men will be slight favourites as it will be Bairstow's last game
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.
The script is inspired from a story which was narrated in 1996 Malayalam film Azhakiya Ravanan.
'I had got good feedback from the New Zealand series and the Indian team coaches had also said look to work on these things. So, whatever they had said, we worked on it and it is reaping benefits today.'
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.
# Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara shared a stand of 108 -- India's second highest opening partnership against Australia at Feroz Shah Kotla -- after 121 between Nari Contractor and Pankaj Roy in December 1959.
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.
Letting Indian batsmen build mammoth partnerships has hurt Australia the most in the series, visiting paceman Peter Siddle lamented.
Murali Vijay (153) cracked his second successive century before Bhuvneshwar Kumar quickly snapped up three Australian wickets to raise hopes of an Indian victory in the third cricket Test which seemed headed for an exciting finish.
CSK have been on a roll with three wins on the trot that have boosted them to the top of the table.
A Nedumudi Venu character was happiest when moving his head to a piece of music with his eyes closed; or, when inventing off of a note that a co-actor had left unfinished; or, when reciting a poem by Kavalam Narayana Panicker where a hymn about nature descends into a musing about cheating, depression and death, feels Sreehari Nair.
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.
Captain Virat Kohli and opener Murali Vijay pulverised a hapless Bangladesh attack into submission with majestic hundreds as India reached a commanding 356 for three on Day 1 of the one-off Test match.
CSK, with their experience of winning important moments, will certainly make Capitals wary.
Exploiting a turning track, left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja scalped three batsmen in one over to finish with a five-wicket haul while Ravichandran Ashwin grabbed four wickets as India bundled out New Zealand for 262 on day three to take control of the first Test in Kanpur.
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.
