Rohit Sharma is not averse to playing three spinners against Pakistan on a huge Motera ground with big square boundaries.
Former India cricketer Anjum Chopra has welcomed the Marylebone Cricket Club's decision to make amendments to the laws of the game and use the gender-neutral term 'batter' and 'batters' rather than 'batsman' or 'batsmen'.
Harmanpreet Kaur will lead a 15-member Indian team at the sixth ICC Women's World Twenty20 to be held in the West Indies from November 9 to 24.
Ravi Shastri was retained as the Team Director of the Indian cricket team till the 2016 T20 World Cup at home, based on the recommendations of the BCCI advisory committee.
Rishabh Pant is "messing up" his chances and should be given a break from international cricket to reinvent his game, said former chairman of selection committee Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
Former IPL chairperson Lalit Modi was his usual outspoken self when he said it will be 'doomsday' for the Indian cricket if N Srinivasan gets re-elected as BCCI president at the Board's AGM on September 29.
Paris is, and will continue to be, dogged by the usual gripes about staging the greatest show on earth.
Star batter Jemimah Rodrigues was on Thursday dropped from the 15-member Indian women's squad for the ICC ODI World Cup to be held in New Zealand from March 4 to April 3.
Cricket, a sport dominated by Britain and former British colonies such as Australia and India, has only once featured in a Games - in Paris in 1900.
Chopra expressed his disappointment a day after Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha came down heavily on the wrestlers for hitting the streets to resume their protests instead of approaching its athletes' commission to lodge their complaints against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Chetan Sharma's position as chairman of national selection committee has become untenable after his alleged outburst during a sting operation by a TV news channel.
On the occasion of Gandhiji's birthday, Rediff.com presents an excerpt from the book that shows how Gandhi changed the face of cricket as it was played then.
West Indies opener Chris Gayle, who is a popular name among T20 leagues around the world, was not picked along Sri Lankan fast bowler Lasith Malinga.
More runs from Virat Kohli. India winning the World T20 at home. A controversy-free IPL and more is what Harish Kotian/Rediff.com wants this year.
Pakistan allrounder Mohammad Hafeez has been ruled out of the World Cup with a calf muscle injury, an official of the country's cricket board told Reuters on Sunday.
'You play the whole season of IPL, travel from one place to other. You don't get tired then?' 'Is there no workload? Only when you play for India, especially when you have to tour a non-glamorous country, do you remember workload?'
Congratulatory messages poured in for Anurag Thakur after he took over as the BCCI President in Mumbai on Sunday with senior players and his board colleagues expressing confidence that Indian cricket would continue to flourish in his tenure.
The fate of the C K Nayudu Trophy and Senior women's T20, which were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Local Organising Committee for 2023 ODI World Cup is likely to be formed when the BCCI Apex Council meets virtually on March 2.
The allocations for the India vs Pakistan match were sold within five minutes of going on sale.
After resuming on 70 for 1, India A added 229 runs at the expense of seven wickets as the visitors were placed at 299 for 8 at stumps on Day 2 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. India A had bowled out the home side for 228 on the first day.
We have to play aggressive cricket, says stand-in skipper KL Rahul
India will play its quarter-final match against the West Indies at the R Premadasa stadium.
"[Winning the tournament] is going to be difficult because the conditions are going to be different," he said.
K L Rahul has managed just 38 runs in three innings in the ongoing Test series against Australia.
A player guilty of ball-tampering could now be banned for up to six Tests or 12 Oone-dayers after the International Cricket Council introduced harsher sanctions at its five-day Annual Conference in Dublin.
West Indies right-hand batsman Shai Hope believes that their upcoming five-match ODI series against England would be a good gauge for them ahead of the 2019 World Cup.
India captain Virat Kohli has put forward a number of demands during a meeting with the Committee of Administrators (COA) in Hyderabad including permission for wives to accompany players for the full overseas tour, a reserved train coach during next year's ODI World Cup in England, a hotel with proper gymnasium, and bananas.
Indians dominated the limited-over teams by having three and four players in the ODI and T20I respectively
India's 15-member squad for the ICC World Cup will be selected on April 15 in Mumbai.
One of the key recommendations of the Lodha committee was to form a players' union and subsequently a steering committee was formed to facilitate the process.
Promising Mumbai batsman Prithvi Shaw will lead a 16-member Indian team in next year's ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said on Sunday.
Lack of strategic thinking behind Pakistan's loss in World Cup.
BCCI has said that government body has no jurisdiction to conduct dopes tests on Indian cricketers.
The 22-year-old leg-spinner said on social media that he was not consulted by the ACB, who earlier named an 18-member squad and two reserve players for the tournament in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has hit back at Ravi Shastri saying the former team director of India has made it 'very personal' and he was hurt by Shastri's 'immature comments'. Shastri had earlier said that Ganguly should 'take his job seriously' after the latter was absent at the time of his interview for the post of India's head coach.
Player of the Tournament Williamson leads a team that includes six players from Sunday's dramatic final at Lord's.
'I believe they have picked the right squad, considering the conditions in the UAE.'
My criticism for BCCI was about ticketing, scheduling and not against any individual: Prasad
Lack of experience, especially in Tests, will pose a "huge challenge" for Indian umpires when they get down to officiate in the post coronavirus world, believe current and former officials. The ICC Cricket Committee on Monday recommended the appointment of local match officials (umpires and match referees) in the short-term to avoid international travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
