Pujara forced his way back into the national team for the fifth Test against England after scoring 720 runs in just 5 matches
The second day's play in the final four-day cricket match between India 'A' and South Africa 'A' was called off without a ball being bowled due to rain.
Saurashtra batsman Cheteshwar Pujara was on Friday named the captain of the India 'A' team that will tour the West Indies in June for three four-day matches, three One-dayers and two Twenty20s.
The Australian team arrived in Hyderabad on Monday amid tight security for a four-day match against the Board President's XI.
Australia's pacemen Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins ripped out England's top order with a masterclass of textbook bowling to put their side in sight of a 2-0 Ashes lead on Saturday.
Out-of-favour India Test batter Cheteshwar Pujara's debut for Sussex has been delayed until next week due to visa issues and he will miss the side's first County Championship match of the season starting Thursday.
Australia's top order fired in unison to secure a six-wicket win over England with Dawid Malan's career-best 134 for the tourists in vain as in the first one-day international on Thursday.
Four of the five goals in a thrilling Group H match at Education City Stadium came from dangerous crosses
Why New Zealand pulled out of tour match in Sydney on Day 2
He said the club will request the AFC to compensate for the money spent on players' travel and accommodation, which will run into lakhs of rupees.
Baroda off-spinner Mahesh Pithiya, whose bowling style is quite similar to Ravichandran Ashwin, has flown to Bengaluru for the visitors' four-day training camp in Bengaluru after Australia's coaching staff had seen his clips on Instagram.
India coach Ravi Shastri offered some 'words of wisdom' to the 18-year-old left-arm fast bowler.
The All-India Senior Selection Committee of the BCCI has picked the squads for India's upcoming series against New Zealand and Bangladesh
Rain denied England's batsmen a chance to inflict further misery on Australia A's hapless bowlers, washing out the entire second day's play in the four-day Ashes tour match in Hobart on Thursday.
Playing against Mohun Bagan on a slushy and jam-packed Eden Gardens on September 24, 1977 in the twilight of his career, the three-time World Cup winner was overwhelmed by the depth of talent a "little known" Indian club possessed.
Cristiano Ronaldo continued his record-breaking form for Portugal as he grabbed two more goals in his country's 6-0 thrashing of Luxembourg in a Euro 2024 qualifier on Sunday.
Openers Mayank Agarwal and Priyank Panchal struck fine half-centuries as India A registered a comfortable seven-wicket victory over the West Indies A in the second unofficial Test, in Port of Spain, on Saturday.
Piyush Chawla claimed 4 for 40 as the hosts, replying to the Indians' 489 all out, were dismissed for 338 in the four-day match in Harare.
The shocking death of batsman Phillip Hughes on Thursday has cast doubts on whether the first Test between Australia and India will go ahead in Brisbane next week.
Rahul Dravid said on Thursday that he decided to play for Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy's quarter-final against Saurashtra on the request of the state side and not from a personal point of view.
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori confirmed he would play in the first Test against England at Lord's on Thursday
Setting an example and cracking the whip on indiscipline, the All India Football Federation suspended Atletico de Kolkata head coach, Antonio Lopez Habas for four matches while Goa FC's marquee player Robert Pires and Kolkata's Fikru Lemessa have been banned for two matches each for breaching the disciplinary code during the ongoing Indian Super League.
The former India captain was dismissed for only six in the second essay as New Zealand A won the four-day match by 133 runs.
Sourav Ganguly failed to get the match practice that he desperately sought ahead of the opening Test against Australia after being dismissed for just 14 runs but India A recovered from a shaky start to post 162 for three in their first innings on the second day of the four-day match against New Zealand A in Chennai on Saturday.
Former captain Sourav Ganguly will be the cynosure of all eyes when he takes field in the second and final four-day match between India A and New Zealand A in Chennai on Friday. The otherwise low-profile encounter has assumed significance with Ganguly, out of cricket for over a month, given a place in India A squad to gain some match practice before the first Test against Australia on October 9.
English county side Surrey bagged Virat Kohli for a dirt cheap deal as the Board of Control for Cricket in India was keen to ensure quality game time for the India captain ahead of tour of England.
Australian captain Michael Clarke has said his side still has room for improvement after their utterly dominant 405-run win in the second Ashes Test against England at Lord's.
Several France players have caught colds, the French Football Federation (FFF) said, as they prepare for the World Cup final against Argentina, with Raphael Varane and Ibrahima Konate the latest to fall ill on Friday.
All-rounder Cameron Green is making a quick recovery from his index finger injury and has an 'outside chance' of making it to Australia's playing XI for the first Test against India.
'It's the most beautiful format of the game.' 'I don't think it's going to go anywhere.' 'I don't even see it getting compressed to four days.'
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) too, is going big on popularising e-Sport with Singapore being confirmed to host the inaugural Olympic Esports Week in June next year.
India captain Virat Kohli was on Thursday slammed by cricket fans for wearing shorts at the toss for the warm-up game against Cricket Australia XI ahead of the four-Test series in Adelaide.
Gujarat beat Bengal in the last over of the Ranji trophy tie.
Abhinav Mukund (164) and Amit Verma (148) struck hundreds as South Zone inched towards an outright win over Central Zone at the end of third day's play in the semi-final of the Duleep Trophy cricket tournament in Hyderabad on Friday. Needing 770 runs to win, Central Zone were precariously placed at 73 for two in their second innings at stumps on the penultimate day of the four-day match.
National Cricket Academy coaches Sitanshu Kotak, Sairaj Bahutule and Munish Bali will be part of India cricket team's support staff, which will be headed by VVS Laxman, on the short tour of Ireland later this month.
The leg spinner had a match haul of 10 for 58 as the Indians thrashed a Zimbabwe eleven by an innings and 233 runs.
Kohli decorated his innings with five boundaries and two sixes.
'The PM should have spoken out much earlier and I would urge him to act, since speaking is not enough.' 'What we are demanding is action.' 'Immediate orders have to be issued by state governments to officials that such incidents should not happen.'
Andhra Pradesh amassed 287 runs in the second innings of their Ranji trophy Elite Group-B match putting a stiff target of 327 runs before hosts Orissa Orissa to win
Nagaland's scorecard resembled a telephone number, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 7, 10, 0 and 0 not out as they crashed for 25 against Uttarakhand.
