India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was fined 50 percent of his match fee after being found guilty of a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Code for Players and Player Support Personnel for his involvement in an incident with James Anderson during the second day of the first Test against England in Nottingham.
If the government of the day would like to set in place a smooth and well-planned changeover and facilitate the incoming chief to chalk out his action plan well in advance, the announcement of a successor needs to be done early, observes Colonel K Thammayya Udupa (retd).
The former India captain is the oldest Indian to attain the milestone, at the age of 35 years and 171 days.
The Kapil Dev-led Indian team, which won the 1983 World Cup, left for London on Tuesday to celebrate the silver jubilee of their historic triumph at Lord's. The entire team, barring Ravi Shastri, left for the British capital where Sunil Gavaskar has organised a dinner to celebrate 25 years of the victory on Wednesday.
The support staff will be appointed for a period of two years beginning from the series against South Africa till the end of the 2021 T20 World Cup to be held in India.
Eyeing the batting coach's job are Lalchand Rajput, Pravin Amre, Mumbai stalwart Amol Muzumdar and Saurashtra's batting bulwark Sitanshu Kotak.
Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named his son after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman.
The refurbished Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera is now renamed Narendra Modi Stadium.
Dhoni is already a recipient of the prestigious Arjuna, Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna and the Padma Shri award.
A virgin Motera pitch has become the big talking point as captain Virat Kohli looks to get the combination right with India looking to continue their momentum to trouble England in the day-night third Test match, starting in Ahmedabad, on Wednesday.
Speaking about the forthcoming India's tour of Australia, the legendary Sunil Gavaskar has admitted that he felt that the Indian team would face a very tough time.
Vivek Shokeen and Somdev Dev Varman were named in the team to face Uzbekistan the Asia-Oceania Group 1 first round away tie.
Rajneesh Gupta surveys the bowling landscape in India-Australia Tests.
The EC concluded that Banerjee sustained injuries due to lapse on part of her security in charge.
The Indians killed in the incident have been identified as Debashish Dev, Arup Roychaudhury, Sunil Sen and Indranil Ghosh, the Indian Embassy said.
Ravi Shastri was both Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev's 'go to man' with his all-round abilities during the '80s and India head coach firmly believes that young Washington Sundar could play a similar role in the current Test team.
The special court for MCOCA cases on Saturday rejected the bail application of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a key accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
The Supreme Court Friday stayed a death sentence awarded to a guide for killing a woman tourist from New Zealand at Varanasi in 1997.
The former India captain admitted he had no idea about his role as the new chairman of the National Cricket Academy.
Rajneesh Gupta's fascinating figures from the Kolkata Test.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the numbers on India's biggest Test triumphs, Virat's victories and Ashwin's achievements.
While Tendulkar would overtake Kapil Dev's record of 131 Test caps in the third Test.
Not undermining Sachin Tendulkar's rich contribution to the game of cricket, Pakistani cricketing legend-turned politician Imran Khan today said he always rates Sunil Gavaskar above any batsman in the world.
On the 30th year of India's maiden World Cup triumph, the captain of the team Kapil Dev feels that particular evening at Lord's "changed the dimension" of the game in the country.
Meet all the interesting couples on a grand evening.
It was an illustrious gathering in Kanpur on Thursday as the Board of Control for Cricket in India felicitated its former Test captains including Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble and Mahendra Singh Dhoni among others to celebrate India's 500th Test match.
Cheteshwar Pujara set a few records during his unbeaten ton.
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo member Mohammed Salim were among the prominent politicians who tested positive for COVID-19 as a rapid spike in cases took the tally in the country to over 18 lakh on Monday.
Former India captain Kapil Dev says the iconic Sachin Tendulkar "did not know how to make double hundreds, triple hundreds and 400 though he had the ability" to scale such peaks and was "stuck in the Mumbai school of cricket".
Virat Kohli is the sixth Indian batsman to register a hundred in his 50th Test, joining Polly Umrigar, Gundappa Viswanath, Sunil Gavaskar, VVS Laxman and Kapil Dev.
Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Ajit Wadekar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Vijay Manjrekar and Eknath Solkar are among the 17 cricketers from Maharashtra who have the 'Kar' suffix in their surnames and have played Test cricket for India.
Former India captain Rahul Dravid and Australian legend Ricky Ponting have been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame for their stupendous achievements in international cricket.
Of the 200 to 250 students who enroll in a graduate language course at Doon University annually, nearly all are assured placement in a range of companies like Amazon (France), AXA Insurance, Oracle and Capgemini.
Nostalgia and anecdotes, given to us by cricket's great writers, do much greater justice to the game.
Imran's party has asked the FO if it would be possible to invite PM Modi.
Director Vijay Milton's 10 Endrathukulla is marred by overzealous performances, ordinary music, tacky CGI and poor execution, warns S Saraswathi.
This IPL would have been Dhoni's comeback tournament after eight and a half months. He would have again led the side -- face not giving away anything but unbridled joy when Chennai Super Kings does something.
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