The power-packed Caribbean batting unit, who successfully chased down a target of 288 in Chennai on Sunday to win by eight wickets, were bundled out for 280 in the 44th over, while they unsuccessfully chased a massive 387 for 5.
A batch of New Zealand cricketers arrived in Mumbai on Friday for their forthcoming limited overs tour of India, commencing on October 22.
India have won six ODI series on the trot. New Zealand have never won an ODI series in India.
In a big relief for Sri Lanka, veteran all-rounder Angelo Mathews has recovered from cramps and is available for selection for the series-deciding third ODI against India.
Shreyas Iyer showed his worth with half centuries in the first two One-day Internationals against the West Indies.
Controversial keeper-batter Wriddhiman Saha, who has been dropped from the Test team, will still earn Rs 1 crore in annual income after being demoted from group B to C.
The 28-year-old all-rounder figures prominently in India's World Cup plans. Shankar has showed that he is a capable batsman, having scored 45 off 64 deliveries in a match-winning 98-run stand with Ambati Rayudu after the top-order collapse in the final ODI in New Zealand.
The CSA said Second, one of the new caps in the Proteas squad announced on August 13 to play three Tests in India in October, has suffered an injury while practising with the South Africa A side. He will require immediate surgery and he has consequently been ruled out of the touring party.
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A remarkably candid Deepak Chahar on Tuesday said he understood early in his career that switching his focus to white ball cricket and IPL was the fastest and easiest route to the Indian team. The medium pacer came into India reckoning after two seasons with IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings.
Images from the 3rd ODI between India and Sri Lanka played in Vizag on Sunday
Jasprit Bumrah and Shikhar Dhawan are also back in both the squads, while pacer Mohammed Shami got a break from the T20 series.
Saurashtra Cricket Association has only sold 10 per cent of tickets for the series opener between India and West Indies beginning at its 25,000 capacity stadium, in Rajkot, on Thursday, in another poor advert for Test cricket.
Kuldeep Yadav took a hat-trick after openers Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul hit centuries to help India crush West Indies by 107 runs in the second ODI in Visakhapatnam and level the three-match series at 1-1. Rohit smashed 159 from 138 balls, while Rahul stroked 102 from 104 balls to power India to a huge 387 for five in their 50 overs. In reply, West Indies made a brave effort courtesy of Shai Hope (78) and Nicholas Pooran (75) but Kuldeep finished off their hopes with his second ODI hat-trick.
England have named an unchanged squad for their tour of India with their all-time leading wicket-taker James Anderson not included in the initial 16-man list for the five-Test series, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Tuesday.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Friday asserted that Jasprit Bumrah's fitness evaluation will be done at the National Cricket Academy after it was speculated that the Rahul Dravid-led body is not keen to conduct the test in Bengaluru. Bumrah is on his way to regaining fitness after being laid low by a stress fracture of the back.
South Africa opener Hashim Alma and India batsman Virat Kohli achieved career-best rankings to date in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen.
Indore is set to host its first-ever Test during the three-match series against New Zealand in September-October as India's top cricketers, in a unique way, on Tuesday, announced the full schedule of the tour that will kick start the team's home season.
Handscomb was picked ahead of regular wicket-keeper Alex Carey in the first T20I against India at Visakhapatnam, giving a boost to his hopes of making Australia's World Cup squad.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan was ruled out of the upcoming three-match T20I series against West Indies with an injury and was replaced by Kerala's wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson.
It was an interesting sight in Visakhapatnam on Saturday as the Indian cricket team turned out for the fifth and final ODI against New Zealand with jerseys sporting their mother's names.
Sachin Tendulkar's wish to play his 200th and final Test on his home ground in Mumbai is granted the BCCI's Tour, Programmes and Fixtures committee.
Rahul's ascendancy to captaincy was expected after Ravichandran Ashwin was traded to Delhi Capitals last month.
The West Indies wicket-keeper batsman said the visitors need to put up more consistent performances as a team in the remaining three games of the series.
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Dhawan said Rishabh Pant has become an asset for the team due to his ability to change the course of a game in no time.
Statistical highlights of the first ODI between India and New Zealand at the Nehru Stadium in Guwahati on Sunday.
Anointed as India's No. 4 in the batting line-up in ODIs with the World Cup in mind, Ambati Rayudu said the responsibility does not 'pressurise' him at all.
Talk about whether IPL auction will be on his mind, Hope sounded dismissive.
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Virat's 248 runs in the second Test, the highest by an Indian captain against England. Ashwin, only the second Indian bowler to take 50 wickets in consecutive years. Rajneesh Gupta looks at the numbers from the Vizag Test.
The third T20 International between India and West Indies, scheduled in Chennai on November 4, will be held as per schedule after the Committee of Administrators accepted the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association's request of sticking to the old formula on complimentary tickets.
The surgery, conducted on his right upper quadriceps tendon, was necessitated after picking up an injury during the fifth and final ODI at Visakhapatnam on October 29.
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma hit centuries and combined in a stand of 246 to help India chase down a difficult target against the West Indies for a convincing eight-wicket victory in the opening One- Day International in Guwahati on Sunday.
Captain Kieron Pollard doesn't mind West Indies' underdog tag against India and said his team will look to focus on the basics to get a favourable result in the limited-over series beginning on Friday.
'We have learnt a lot of things. Especially when we played in Kolkata (during first Test against SL) and in Dharamsala (first ODI)'
With the national selection committee and the team management deciding to promote Rohit as an opener, keeping his spunky strokeplay in mind, the next five Tests could be a make or break for the 32-year-old stylish right-hander.
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Glenn Phillips and Todd Astle are in line to make their ODI debut after being among the six players added to the New Zealand squad for the three-match series against India, beginning in Mumbai on October 22.
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