Facing the toughest phase of his cricketing life, an underfire Mahendra Singh Dhoni will seek to revive his career and change the fortunes of a dispirited Indian team when the hosts take on an unbeaten South Africa in the second cricket one-dayer in Indore on Wednesday.
India captain MS Dhoni has equalled former skipper Sourav Ganguly's Test record for most wins.
Another standout performance by the spinners, led by home favourite Ravichandran Ashwin, helped India register an empathic eight-wicket win over Australia in the opening match of the four-Test series at the MA Chidambaram stadium on Tuesday.
The former New Zealand ace said that CSK would have loved to play Mumbai Indians in the semi-finals of the Champions League T20 after crumbling to an eight-wicket defeat against Trinidad and Tobago in their last league game in New Delhi.
The Champions League T20 is in its final week, and as we approach the business end of the tournament it is time to look back at some of the best displays in the last two weeks. We take a look the individual batting efforts that stand out.
While MS Dhoni's flamboyance ensured he would dominate the headlines even as Team India consolidated its position on Day Three of the opening Test against Australia in Chennai, another knock also deserves a mention.
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The MS Dhoni-led CSK is on top of Group 'B' and will eye a hat-trick of victories and seal a semi-final spot when they square off against Brisbane Heats of Australia in Ranchi on Saturday.
Indian cricket team captain and honorary Lt Col MS Dhoni visited Drass and Kargil on the second day of his visit to Ladakh region.
'Like MS Dhoni, I try to detach myself from the result and focus on small things, which I also refer to as process. And this helps in getting the desired outcome'
He is one of the most successful Indian captain's. Now part of the BCCI cricket advisory committee alongside Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman, Ganguly, 43, prefers to play with a straight bat to the team's response of Virat Kohli as Test captain and Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the ODI leader.
Mumbai fast bowler Shardul Thakur will replace injured pacer Jasprit Bumrah in India's ODI squad for the upcoming three-match series against England, starting July 12. Bumrah injured his left thumb during India's first T2OI against Ireland in Dublin and was ruled out of the ongoing T2OI series against England.
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Courtesy of his brilliant leadership in IPL 2022, India has got another genuine white-ball captaincy option in Hardik Pandya.
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Though it retained its home advantage in recent years, the Indian cricket team, says Bikash Mohapatra, is no longer the indomitable force it used to be.
Pace legend Michael Holding is impressed with Mahendra Singh Dhoni's approach.
