Be warned, Tim Paine and Co, the Indians are here!
The Parthiv Patel-led Rest of India starts as firm favourites against a disjointed Rajasthan when the two teams square up in the Irani Cup match, at the Sawai Mansingh stadium, in Jaipur, on Saturday.
Rajneesh Gupta picks fun sledging through the decades.
Will Young scored an unbeaten 117, steering New Zealand 'A' to 221 for five against India 'A' on the opening day of the second unofficial Test, in Hamilton, on Friday.
Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore have won only three games out of 10 in IPL-12 so far.
Despite the win against KXIP, RCB remain at the bottom of the points table and remain to win all their remaining league games to have any hopes of progressing in the tournament.
'The fitness parameters of the current Indian team are the best that it has ever been,' says the coach.
Images from Friday's IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders, in Bengaluru.
Parthiv Patel doesn't want to put himself under unnecessary pressure that he will be keeping in place of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and opening with Gautam Gambhir in place of Virender Sehwag.
With absolutely no chance of qualifying for the play-offs, the stand-in captain of Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Parthiv Patel, wants to finish the IPL campaign on a high beating defending champions Chennai Super Kings in their own den.
Both teams have been more than disappointing thus far in the IPL and need a win to revive their respective campaigns.
Rajneesh Gupta previews Game 55 in IPL 12: Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings.
Disappointed after his side's fifth defeat in six matches this IPL season, Kings XI Punjab's Australian import Glenn Maxwell said ordinary bowling and fielding has let the team down.
Vidya headed to Siddhivinayak while Priyanka offered prayers at the Andhericha Raja pandal.
Kerala hit back to reduce Gujarat to 97 for 4 after being bowled out for 185 on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals.
Performers from 28 states have been allotted stages erected along the roadshow route, where the two leaders will be greeted by people on both sides of the road. There will also be a 'Garba' performance, the traditional Gujarati dance, on one of the stages, they said. The performances will provide a glimpse of the country's cultural diversity, the officials said.
Hanuma Vihari's role as an opener is a stop-gap one and he will be given enough opportunities in his preferred middle-order spot should he fail at the top, assured chairman of selectors MSK Prasad.
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting, who had earlier called for Pant's inclusion in the Indian team, was disappointed by the wicket-keeper batsman's glovework.
Gujarat's 26-year-old opening batsman Samit Gohel on Tuesday broke a 117-year-old record in first-class cricket by notching up the highest score while carrying his bat through the innings of 359 not out during his team's Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Odisha. While Hanif Mohammed's epic 499 remains the highest score by an opener in first-class cricket, no one has scored more than Gohel while remaining not out in his team's score of 641.
Mumbai Indians crushed Sunrisers Hyderabad by nine wickets in a must-win final league game to sail into play-offs of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament in Hyderabad on Sunday.
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.
IMAGES from the Indian Premier League match played at Chepauk in Chennai on Saturday
Debutant Lungi Ngidi took six wickets as South Africa defeated India by 135 runs for victory in the second Test in Pretoria on Wednesday and also claim the series with an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match contest.
Check out the Mumbai Indians squad for the eighth edition of the Indian Premier League.
Four consecutive Tests involving the West Indies have ended in three days, notes Rajneesh Gupta.
Rajneesh Gupta look at how many players fell by the wayside during the tenure of India's last four captains.
Kolkata Knight Riders spinner Piyush Chawla says the Royal Challengers Bangalore will certainly bounce back in the IPL because of the quality players in their ranks.
Skipper Parthiv Patel struck an exemplary fifty, while Axar Patel chipped in with an unbeaten 36, after picking two crucial wickets, as Gujarat edged out Vidarbha by two wickets and advanced to the semi-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy One-day tournament, in Alur, Karnataka, on Thursday.
Jasprit Bumrah produced one of the finest death overs in the history of the Indian Premier League as Mumbai Indians nearly self-destructed before edging out Gujarat Lions via the Super Over, in the Indian Premier League, in Rajkot, on Saturday.
Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore go into the virtual quarter-final, having lost four and three games on the trot respectively
Syed Kirmani has lauded the manner in which the national cricket team has bounced back after losing the Test series in South Africa,
Having endured a tough outing against the same side in 2019, it's now a story of going from being zero to hero for Siraj.
Dhoni refused three singles in the 19th over bowled by Navdeep Saini
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians in Sharjah, on Saturday.
Kings XI run into a RCB squad which has grown in confidence by leaps and bounds since their last meeting.
The middle-order continues to remain a concern for CSK with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni himself not being at his best.
Leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal ripped through the Royal Challengers Bangalore top order to help Rajasthan Royals win by 7 wickets for their first win in IPL 12.
Middle-order batsman Chirag Gandhi struck a timely, maiden first class hundred and remained unbeaten on 136 to lift newly-crowned Ranji Trophy champions Gujarat from deep trouble on day one of the Irani Cup game against the Rest of India at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Friday.
India will look to make the most of their only warm-up game, beginning, in Sydney, on Wednesday against Cricket Australia XI.
An umpiring howler off the last delivery cost Royal Challengers Bangalore dearly as Mumbai Indians beat the hosts by six runs, largely due to Jasprit Bumrah's brilliant spell at the death, in Thursday's IPL encounter in Bengaluru.
