'I know having bowled to her, you bowl a number of dots and out of nowhere she picks you up and hits you straight back over your head. With so much ease she does, I can't understand why you don't do that more often than not, but it doesn't matter in this case...'
'India have chased so well in the past with Dhoni in the team and they have never been afraid to win the toss'
India have emerged winner in all five matches against Pakistan in T20 World Cups, starting from the inaugural World T20 in 2007.
Images from the first One-day International between India and England, in Ahmedabad, on Friday.
India defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets in the finals of the tournament.
Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will have to wait another year before chasing India's first Olympic track and field medal in Tokyo but the delay may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, the 22-year-old said. The Commonwealth and Asian Games champion, seen as one of India's best medal prospects at the Games, spent the whole of 2019 recovering from an elbow operation on his throwing arm.
Kartik Tyagi blew away Australia's top-order with a sensational spell of fast bowling to power India to a 74-run victory and a place in the semi-finals of the ICC Under-19 World Cup, in Portchefstroom, South Africa, on Tuesday.
Chasing India's 251 to level the five-match series, Australia got off to a strong start before the hosts roared back into the contest with some disciplined bowling.
England women scripted a sensational recovery from a difficult position to register a consolation two-wicket win in the third and final ODI to prevent hosts India from completing a whitewash in the three-match series.
Mignon du Preez scored a valiant 90 as South Africa pulled off a consolation seven-wicket win over India to go down 1-2 in the three-match series, which was part of the ICC Women's ODI Championship.
Fearless Hetmyer guides West Indies to challenging 207/5
Adam Zampa picked up two wickets in a miserly spell of leg spin bowling as Australia edged India by four runs in an enthralling rain-shortened Twenty20 International in Brisbane on Wednesday.
As per the preliminary estimates, the BJP has significantly improved its national vote share from 31.34 per cent in 2014 to a new record high, while there appeared to be only a marginal change in case of the Congress from its 19.5 per cent score of the last elections.
Rajneesh Gupta presents India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's top five innings in India's successful run chases.
Diwali celebrations came a day early for India, as they completed a 5-0 whitewash of England with a crushing 95-run victory in the fifth and final One-day International in Kolkata on Tuesday.
Dhoni's Daredevils win World Cup 2011 for Sachin Tendulkar!
Virat Kohli scored a stroke-filled 78 as a scratchy the Indians registered a thrilling five-run victory over Kent in a rain-curtailed 20-overs-a-side practice match at the St Lawrence ground in Canterbury on Friday night.
Average tenure of CEOs and MDs has come down to 1-3 years.
This is Tharanga's second ban in recent times after he suffered a similar two-match ban for slow over-rate in the Champions Trophy when he had led the side against South Africa in the absence of then-skipper Angelo Mathews.
As the tournament gets to the business end here's a chance to predict the winner. Listed below are the eight quarter-finalists. Pick four who you think will make the semi-finals.
Images from Day 2 of the third and final Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo on Sunday.
South Africa middle-order batsman JP Duminy said the Proteas need to go back to the drawing board and re-work their plan to tackle the Indian wrist-spin duo.
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Ajinkya Rahane felt it was a good toss to win for the visitors in the first T20 International against Zimbabwe because it was easier to bat in the first innings as the pitch got slower with time.
crowd of 80,000 flocked to the MCG for Thursday's sudden-death encounter.
Young leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal said big grounds like the one at the VCA Stadium in Jamtha, Nagpur, provides him with a chance to flight the deliveries more in order to create a deception.
Alastair Cook believes England were wrong to sack him as their one-day captain.
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup.
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 17 runs in their Indian Premier League match, in Kolkata, on Saturday.
Prasad appealed to US businesses to invest in the country in a big way specially in ambitious programmes like Make in India
The Pakistan captain became the second player to score 10,000 runs in ODIs after India's Sachin Tendulkar.
With a batting average of just a shade under 30, the pugnacious Mitchell Johnson plundered the Indian bowling to register his ninth Test fifty and give Australia a fighting chance in the second Test at the Gabba.
'Even when I made 264, I was told I should have made 300. People's expectations are high. Even if you make 300, they expect 350,' said the India opener ahead of Thursday's World Cup semi-final against Australia in Sydney.
While three of their neighbours -- Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- crashed out in the quarter-finals, India remain the only team from the sub-continent to make the last four, and make it in style.
New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum acclaimed opener Martin Guptill's World Cup record 237 not out against West Indies on Saturday as one of the best ever.
Cricket fans are questioning whether a Gayle will strike Wellington Regional Stadium on Saturday.
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