The record-shattering Virat Kohli became the quickest to reach 10,000 ODI runs on his way to slamming yet another century as India notched a competitive 321 for six in the second match against the West Indies, in Visakhapatnam, on Wednesday.
India's pace ace Ishant Sharma lived up to his potential, picking four wickets in the first innings, but was disappointed that New Zealand were let off the hook after struggling at 61 for six at one stage on the opening day of the first Test in Hamilton on Wednesday.
India made two changes for the do-or-die Super Eight WT20 match, bringing in left-arm pacer R P Singh for Irfan Pathan. Pragyan Ojha was surprisingly dropped in favour of all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja.
India beat New Zealand by 53 runs in the rain-interrupted first one-day international at Napier on Tuesday. The tourists amassed 273-4 from 38 overs after their innings was halted for two-and-a-half hours because of rain. New Zealand were set a revised target of 216 to win off 28 overs after their reply was also interrupted by heavy showers but could only score 162 for 9, losing by 53 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat against New Zealand in the first One-Day International in Napier on Tuesday. For India, pacer Ishant Sharma was rested after injuring his shoulder during the second Twenty20 International against New Zealand. He was replaced by Praveen Kumar, while Munaf Patel took the place of Irfan Pathan. Sachin Tendulkar, who missed out on the last two one-dayers against Sri Lanka, also returns to the Indian team.
Smarting from the seven-wicket defeat in the tour opener against New Zealand, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni attributed the loss to irresponsible batting by his teammates. After his third defeat in 12 T20 matches on Wednesday, he felt his batsmen needlessly went after the Kiwi attack without proper planning, which led to his side losing too many wickets at the beginning of the innings.
Brendon McCullum smashed an unbeaten half-century to steer New Zealand to a seven-wicket win over India in their first Twenty20 international in Christchurch on Wednesday. The Kiwis overhauled India's total of 162 for eight with seven balls to spare.
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to field against India in the first Twenty20 international at the AMI Stadium in Christchurch on Wednesday. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh returned to the Indian team, replacing all-rounder Ravinder Jadeja, who featured in India's last Twenty20 match against Sri Lanka.
A ruthless India demolished Ireland by 143 runs to clinch the series 2-0 as spinners yet again tormented the hosts after authoritative batting show by the visiting batsmen in the second and final Twenty20 International.
A superlative 175 by Sachin Tendulkar was in vain as Australia beat India by three runs in the fifth ODI in Hyderabad on Thursday.
India made a strong reply to England's first-innings total of 477 after half-centuries by debutant Liam Dawson and number nine Adil Rashid underlined the tourists' batting depth in the fifth and final Test on Saturday. - Scorecard: India claimed three wickets on the second morning but the 108-run partnership between Dawson and Rashid in a productive second session for the touring side frustrated the hosts.
India may be in dire straits but middle order batsman VVS Laxman believes all is not lost yet and the team can conjure up 'something special' on Day 4 to save the second Test against New Zealand. 'It's a great opportunity not only for me but the entire team to do something special. We are all looking forward to the next two days and I'm quite confident that we'll do something special,' Laxman said after the third day's play.
India went in with the same side that won the opening Test by six wickets in Chennai. For England, Stuart Broad, who missed the first Test due to a hamstring injury, replaced Steve Harmison.
Ross Taylor (151) and Jesse Ryder (137 not out) scored centuries as New Zealand rallied from a precarious 23 for 3 to 351 for 4 at stumps on Day 1 in the second Test against India in Napier on Thursday. India, who won the first Test in Hamilton by 10 wickets, are seeking their first series win in New Zealand since 1968 but were dealt a blow when captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni sustained a back injury during the warm-up and was replaced by Dinesh Karthik.
India's captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was effusive in praise of Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 160 in the first innings, and his bowlers after the thumping 10-wicket victory over New Zealand in the first Test in Hamilton on Saturday.
Sachin Tendulkar was unbeaten on 70 as India ended Day 2 in the first Test on 278 for 3, one run behind New Zealand's first innings total. There were also notable contributions from Gautam Gambhir (72) and Rahul Dravid (66).
Daniel Vettori and Jesse Ryder scored centuries as New Zealand recovered from a precarious 61 for 6 at lunch to 279 all out on the opening day of the first Test against India. In reply, India were 29 without loss at close of play.
Play resumed in the first One-Day International between India and New Zealand but the match has been reduced to 38 overs per side. India were 27 for no loss in 4.3 overs with Virender Sehwag (23) and Sachin Tendulkar (3) at the crease when rain had halted the play at McClean Park in Napier on Tuesday.
Having recorded a second successive victory over India in as many Twenty20 matches, New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori heaped praise on his bowlers for restricting the visitors to 160 in Wednesday's match in Christchurch. New Zealand, who had beaten India by 10 runs at the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa, inflicted a seven-wicket defeat on Mahendra Singh Dhoni's team in the opening match of the 47-day tour.
India continued their rampaging run as they thrashed Zimbabwe by 10 wickets to register their third win on the trot, at the ICC Under-19 World Cup, in Mount Maunganui, on Friday.
Umpires' poor performance comes to the fore even as India's stand against DRS costs them dear
After bundling out England for 302 in the first innings, India were 44 for 3 at one stage but recovered to end Day 4 in the second Test on 134 for 4, an overall lead of 285 runs.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field in the second one-day international of the five-match series against Sri Lanka in Dambulla on Wednesday. Praveen Kumar has come in for Pragyan Ojha while Subramaniam Badrinath is making his debut, replacing Gautam Gambhir, who was ruled out due to a stiff neck.
England captain Kevin Pietersen won the toss and elected to field in the fourth one-dayer against India in Bangalore on Sunday. India made one change to the side that won the third one-dayer in Kanpur, bringing in Sachin Tendulkar in place of Rohit Sharma.
India were firmly on the backfoot with Sri Lanka building a vital 103-runs first innings lead after reaching 352 for seven at lunch on the third day of the deciding third and final cricket Test on Sunday.
India were dismissed for 295 in their second innings, setting Australia a record target of 382 to win the fourth and final Test in Nagpur. In reply, the visitors raced to 13 without loss in 1.3 overs before accepting the offer of bad light at the end of Day 4. Matthew Hayden was unbeaten on five, with Simon Katich on eight from two boundaries.
India posted their 12th victory in 38 Tests against Australia in India. (Lost 12, Drawn 13, Tied 1). Overall, India have won 17 out of 74 against Australia (Lost 34, Drawn 22 and Tied 1).
Salman Butt's hundred against India on Saturday was seventh of his ODI career. Interestingly five of them have come against India (and remaining two vs Bangladesh). Butt now shares the record of scoring most hundreds against India.
Australia were 62 without loss at stumps, in reply to India's 526, at the end of Day 2 of the fourth Test.
With six lbw dismissals cluttering up their scorecard, New Zealand clearly did not put their best foot forward in the first test against India on Saturday. India spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja frequently beat the bats and hit the pads of the New Zealand batsmen, the hosts coming close to equalling the record of seven lbw dismissals in a test innings. "They were trying to play the sweep shot and we knew if an odd ball keeps low or an odd ball spins, there were always changes of an edge or an lbw," Jadeja, whose five-wicket haul included four leg befores, told reporters.
India left out off-spinner Ramesh Powar, preferring young leg-spinner Piyush Chawla instead for the day-night encounter.
By the end of the fourth day's play, 1298 runs have been scored by the two teams - a record for the highest match aggregate between the two countries.
R Ashwin thinks like a batsman while bowling, says Cheteshwar Pujara.
Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers from Day 4:
Ishant Sharma and Praveen Kumar picked four wickets each as Sri Lanka were dismissed for a paltry 179 in 47.1 overs. India hit up the runs with 17.4 overs to spare, in Tuesday's tri-series match.
The start of the match was delayed by nearly three and half hours because of heavy rain, reducing it to 29 overs a side.
Australia won the second Test by 122 runs to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and equal their own world record of 16 successive victories.
The veteran posted his 38th Test hundred (154 not out) to guide India to a massive 532, 69 more than Australia's first innings score of 463.
Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly believe India can win the last two ODIs to fashion a series victory.
India made two changes to the side that lost to Australia by 18 runs in Sydney on Sunday, Praveen Kumar and Munaf Patel replacing Virender Sehwag and Shantha Sreesanth for the 11 ODI of the series.
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