The top order wobbled again but skipper S Badrinath led with example and hit a sedate unbeaten 69 to fashion India A's comprehensive five-wicket win against their New Zealand counterparts in the Tri-Series cricket tournament in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Gautam Gambhir's century takes him to the second place and young Piyush Chawla too seems capable of providing real value.
India beat Bangladesh by 46 runs in the second ODI to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
Young leg-spinner Piyush Chawla will make his debut in the second ODI against Bangladesh.
Tamil Nadu batsman S Badrinath will lead a 15-member India 'A' squad which will play two three-day matches against a visiting Australia 'A' side next month.
The big boost for Sussex Sharks came a few months back when West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Smith announced that he would play for them ahead of IPL champions Deccan Chargers.Captain Michael Yardy has led from the front with the bat, while young Indian leg-spinner Piyush Chawla will be useful given his knowledge of conditions at home.
Not the typical next-door budding cricket, Madhwal is a civil engineer for whom the sport was just a hobby. Watching him in the second half of this season, one would find it tough to believe that the 29 year old used to play tennis ball cricket until four years ago.
Virender Sehwag and Suresh Raina were named in the 16-member squad for the Twenty20 match against Australia, followed by the tri-series.
Punjab have taken an overall lead of 244 runs over Uttar Pradesh at the close of the third day's play in the Ranji Super League Group 'B' match.
The Indian captain leads the list of India's most valuable ODI players in the current season.
Uttar Pradesh, once considered minnows, are in a different league now with three players in the Indian team and the next crop even more promising.
Two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday defeated title holders Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets via Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-truncated Indian Premier League Eliminator to set up a meeting against Mumbai Indians in Friday's Qualifier 2.
The Indians are hoping to erase the bitter memories of the 4-0 loss in South Africa by winning the three-match series, beginning in Belfast on Tuesday.
Marcus North hit a brilliant half century as Australia 'A' fought back in the second innings after being forced to follow-on in the three-day game against India 'A' that ended in a draw at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Friday.
Nottinghamshire has given V V S Laxman time till Friday to make up his mind whether to join the county or not. Laxman was supposed to join the club as a replacement for Australian Adam Voges.
Chennai Super Kings' practice sessions was suspended in view of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the IPL franchise announced on Friday. The three-time IPL champions had commenced training from March 2 at the M A Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai with captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Ambati Rayudu getting down to work.
India made one change, bringing in leg-spinner Piyush Chawla in place of Munaf Patel for the first of the best of three finals.
A livid Sunil Gavaskar on Sunday lashed out at Indian seamer Munaf Patel for his lackadaisical attitude on the field and suggested he should not have been included in the side that lost to Australia in the tri-series one-dayer in Adelaide.
Captain Kumar Sangakkara led from the front with a gutsy half-century that saw Punjab get the better of Mumbai by six wickets in Mohali on Friday.
The spin duo of Praveen Gupta and Piyush Chawla forced the Baroda team to dance to their tunes on the penultimate day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'B' super league match in Lucknow.
Scoring at a rate of 173.33, Jaiswal's unbeaten 104 off 60 was peppered with nine boundaries and seven sixes.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who missed the opening match against South Africa, has recovered from a viral flu and is expected to play the second ODI.
Central Zone beat East Zone by 123 runs in their concluding Deodhar Trophy match.
'I don't think anyone can take a call on Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whether this is going to be his last year.'
Chasing a victory target of 129, Uttar Pradesh finished the day at 100 for seven against Tamil Nadu.
Our spinners were nullified today, says Robin Uthappa.
India Under-19 beat their Pakistan counterparts by 82 runs.
The Indian under-19 team posted a 271-run victory over the Pakistan colts in the first four-day Test.
IMAGES from the IPL match played between Lucknow Super Giants and Mumbai Indians in Lucknow on Tuesday.
The total that once looked chaseable on a nice batting track only got more and more difficult to breach as MI eventually scored a consolation 42 run win.
The in-form Rajasthan Royals will be confident of a third consecutive victory when they take on Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League, in Jaipur, on Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh gained the first innings lead and now have an overall lead of 197 runs in the Ranji Trophy final against Bengal.
The hosts are 30 runs short of victory against Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy match.
The southpaw slammed 75 as Uttar Pradesh ended day one on 303 for six against Baroda
Indian colts defeated Australia Under-19 side by 31 runs in the fifth and final one-day match to clinch the series 4-1
Delhi Capitals rode on Prithvi Shaw's fluent fifty and a disciplined bowling effort to inflict a 44-run defeat on Chennai Super Kings, in the Indian Premier League, in Dubai, on Friday.
The opener's 211 saw the India Under-19 declare their first innings on 472-4 and then reduce the England colts to 189-4 at stumps on day 2 of the third 'Test'.
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