Former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar made a startling revelation, on Monday, about underworld don Dawood Ibrahim entering the Indian team's dressing room and offering the players cars if they beat Pakistan in the final of the Sharjah tournament in 1986.
Pranav Jain, who is a die-hard fan of Mahendra Singh Dhoni wants 183 autographs from his idol. MSD had scored an unbeaten 183 in 2005 which is highest ODI score
IMAGES from Day 2 of the rescheduled 5th Test between England and India at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Saturday.
Harbhajan Singh is the first Indian to take a Test hat-trick. He achieved this feat while playing against Australia at Kolkata in March 2001 by dismissing Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne.
Team combination a worry for India
Former players including Sachin Tendukar, VVS Laxman, and current players like Yuzvendra Chahal and Mayank Agarwal paid tribute to Harbhajan Singh, who retired from cricket.
Former India captain Kapil Dev believes it will be a big loss for the India whenever the legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni decides to hang up his boots. Recently, Dhoni was dropped from the BCCI's list of centrally contracted players, raising fresh doubts on the future of the former India captain who has not played since the World Cup semi-final loss to New Zealand last year.
Priyanka meets Keanu Reeves.. Pratik wraps up a shoot with Vidya... Rajkummar celebrates with Patralekhaa...
A look at the possible vice-captain candidates for the Test series in South Africa.
Gavaskar opened up on the moment that almost led India to forfeit the match they would famously go on to win.
Rajneesh Gupta surveys the bowling landscape in India-Australia Tests.
Hat-trick man Jasprit Bumrah attains highest rating points by an India seamer since since Kapil Dev in 1981.
Rajneesh Gupta presents the numbers from the Oval Test.
The India pacer is playing his 100th Test in Motera.
It is understood that Kohli, Rahane, Shami, Jadeja will be sweating it out at the nets alongside Ashwin, who has already bowled a whopping 58 overs and taken seven wickets in a County game for Surrey last week.
17 scorers have appealed in unison to BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, seeking some sort of 'retirement benefits'
No sportsperson has been named for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna while 15, including cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin, were recommended for the Arjuna Award this year.
Hardik has just taken 10 Tests to record a rare feat -- scored a ton and taken 5 wickets. Still not 25, Hardik has shown that he belongs to the place, says Rajneesh Gupta, giving us the numbers that matter.
Apart from Shastri, the other big names who will give presentations to the three-member committee include former Australia all-rounder and Sri Lanka coach Tom Moody, along with ex-New Zealand and Kings XI Punjab coach Mike Hesson.
He became only the seventh all-rounder in the world to score 2,000 runs and take 100 wickets in a particular country.
Australia spin great Shane Warne picked former India captain Sourav Ganguly as the skipper of his greatest Indian XI. However, the most notable omission in his team was that of former India batting great VVS Laxman, who enjoyed an impeccable record against Australia.
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.
Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers from Day 2:
Thakur, Sundar talk us through their record-breaking partnership.
Nostalgia and anecdotes, given to us by cricket's great writers, do much greater justice to the game.
Shastri shared a picture with former West Indies player Vivian Richards calling him a 'King'.
Former captain Kapil Dev has said that Indian batting's mainstay Virat Kohli will rewrite more records than anyone else in world cricket and believed the Delhi batsman has realistic chances of "bettering" even Sachin Tendulkar's career graph if he remains injury-free.
No Indian bowler has had a better debut year in Test cricket than the young lad from the Gujarat and Mumbai Indians teams.
Forty-one well-known names share their love for their daughters in a heartwarming coffee table book.
They were speaking at a function to mark the release of 'Defying the Paradigm,' a coffee table book on Srinivasan's 50-year journey with India Cements.
Former India captain Kapil Dev says the iconic Sachin Tendulkar "did not know how to make double hundreds, triple hundreds and 400 though he had the ability" to scale such peaks and was "stuck in the Mumbai school of cricket".
Finalising calendar for the 2020-21 home season of the Indian cricket team, appointment of ethics officer and release of funds to Indian Cricketers' Association (ICA) will be among the items on agenda at BCCI's second Apex Council meeting, in New Delhi, on Sunday. The Apex Council, which had its first and only meeting so far on November 30, is required to meet at least once in three months.
Former India captain Kapil Dev has criticised the team for cropping catches that allowed England's batsmen to take control of the third Test in Southampton.
Former India captain Kapil Dev was honoured with the C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award by the Board of Control for Cricket in India at its seventh annual awards ceremony in Mumbai on Saturday.
Nirvani Ani Akhada president Mahant Dharmdas said that only the mela officer or the chief minister has the right to announce the "end of the Kumbh Mela".
Ishant last played in an ODI in 2016 and a T20 International match in 2013.
Former captain Kapil Dev has said Team India's opening batsman needs a better head while out-of-favour batsman Virender Sehwag needs to be back among runs.
With any luck, Bollywood will get back on its feet again and give us much to awe and amaze about.
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