Sai Sudharsan made the opportunity count in his comeback game with a fifty while Rishabh Pant suffered another injury as India played the old-fashioned way to reach 264 for four at stumps on Day 1 of the fourth Test in Manchester on Wednesday.
India had a disappointing start to the Archery World Cup Stage IV with the country's best medal hope Deepika Kumari slipping to 19th as the women's recurve team finished sixth and men's squad earning the fifth place in the qualification rounds at Wroclaw, Poland, on Tuesday.
The Indian pair of Jayanta Talukdar and Deepika Kumari had to be content with a silver medal as they lost to Chinese duo of Dai Xiaoxiang and Fang Yuting in the Archery World Cup Stage II in Antalya on Sunday.
England stayed calm under intense pressure to beat India by 22 runs on a final day of simmering tension and drama in the third Test at Lord's on Monday and move 2-1 up in the series.
'What a player he is. He bowls, bats and executes a crucial run out of Rishabh Pant but there is no talk of workload management. But with India it is not like that.'
The England pacer will return to the IPL for the first time since the 2020 season which he played for Rajasthan Royals.
After a cautious start, Crawley and Duckett punished the straying Indian bowlers with an array of crisp boundaries. The pair blunted the new ball and raced to 77 without loss at tea.
"Just Rishabh being Rishabh": Pant's grit wins hearts as he returns to bat in Manchester Test
With World No Deepika Kumari spearheading the campaign, India's in-form archers will aim for a perfect 10 when they pick up their bows and arrows to seek Olympic glory at the 'spiritual home of cricket' -- the hallowed turf of Lord's Stadium in London.
'Archer brings excitement and an X-factor to the team'
Jasprit Bumrah takes a fifer at Lord's and goes past Kapil Dev for most five wicket hauls in away Tests.
Harvinder Singh is the first ever Indian to win a gold medal in archery at the Paralympics.
Indian women's recurve team showed nerves of steel to win the gold, while the men's trio couldn't match up to their female counterparts and had to settle for a bronze in the archery competition of the Commonwealth Games at the Yamuna Sports Complex in New Delhi on Friday.
IMAGES from Day 3 of the third Test match, played between England and India at Lord's, London, on Saturday.
'India is now adopting and recognising para sports and our performances.'
Indian compound archers continued their winning run and stormed into the final of men's and women's team events to confirm two medals for the country in the World Cup Stage 4, in Paris on Wednesday.
In the recently concluded five-match Test series against England, India's star wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant stood tall as a beacon of determination, battling through injuries to deliver a string of gutsy, crowd-pleasing knocks that underlined his value to the side.
India's erratic women archers crashed out of the team event on Sunday. Denmark edged out the Indians 210-211 at the Lord's cricket ground.
On a highly successful day for India, the trio of Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai and Rahul Banerjee clinched gold before Deepika Kumari settled for a silver medal at the Archery World Cup Stage IV in Shanghai on Saturday.
India's golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar romped home to a three-shot victory at the Macao Open to bag his eighth Asian Tour title in Macau on Sunday.
'The name on the Honours board feels good. It is something I can tell my son about when he is grown up.'
... hit five 50-plus scores in a row at a particular venue.
England pacer Jofra Archer expressed his delight at joining five-time champions Mumbai Indians even though he won't available to play in the IPL this season as he continues his recovery from injury.
Mumbai Indians owner Aakash Ambani revealed the plan to sign Jofra Archer was more of an investment point of view.
India's archers claimed a double in the compound events, winning both the men's and women's team gold medals in the World Cup Stage 4.
Jofra Archer had a minor operation on his troublesome right elbow earlier this month
Pain, Punt and Pant: Keeper of India's fortune fights back with broken foot
Shubman Gill etched his name in the record books after becoming only the third captain in the history of Test cricket to score four centuries in a series.
Captain Shubman Gill and the ever-dependable K L Rahul gave India a glimmer of hope with resilient half-centuries after a well crafted hundred from Ben Stokes extended England's supremacy in the fourth Test in Manchester on Saturday.
The women's recurve team of Deepika Kumari, Gatha Khadake and Ankita Bhakat entered the bronze medal play-offs at the World Archery Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the third Test match between England and India at Lord's, London, on Friday.
Medal layenge, medal layenge yeh baat tum dimaag se nikal do (a medal will never come if you chase after a medal, just focus on the processes)
Suspension, internal mudslinging and factionalism overshadowed some stellar performances by Indian archers as the sport went from bad to worse with just a few months left for Tokyo Olympics in an eventful 2019. The biggest blow to Indian archery came in August when World Archery suspended the national federation after two warring groups conducted parallel elections in Delhi and Chandigarh in a clear defiance of the international body's guidelines.
Under the shimmering floodlights and in front of a roaring partisan crowd, Virat Kohli unleashed his latest masterclass, blasting a 42-ball 70 to guide Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) to a sensational 11-run win over Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
While former Australian opener Matthew Hayden reckons series will go India's way, two former India players believe otherwise.
Jadeja consolidates as world No 1 Test all-rounder, Abhishek Sharma is top ranked T20I batter
India's batting faltered under pressure as they suffered a 22-run defeat in the third Test against England, at Lord's.
I would hope that India stick by him, at least another couple of games, just to give him a run at No.3, feels former England captain Michael Vaughan.
The last time MI won six in a row, they went on to lift the IPL trophy -- in 2017.
MI tweeted a teaser of 'Jofra batting' on their Twitter and here's hoping the training comes in handy when he uses the long handle when MI need it most.
