South Africa pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada is still bitter about the scheduling fiasco which saw him miss the two-Test series in New Zealand.
We have to play aggressive cricket, says stand-in skipper KL Rahul
New Zealand vice-captain Tom Latham says losing the first day to rain will not change their approach to team selection.
India have already secured the Border-Gavaskar trophy and they will now be playing for a record-extending 16th straight series win at home
BJ Watling will be retiring from international cricket after the tour of England.
Kohli didn't name anyone but expressed his displeasure at some of the players not showing enough intent to score runs
8-day bubble in India, 10-day quarantine in UK from June 2, cricketers' families to travel along.
India's batting coach Vikram Rathour on Wednesday said it "will be tough" to pick one among Sarfaraz Khan and Rajat Patidar in the second Test against England.
This is Ravichandran Ashwin's sixth stint at the top of the rankings. He first became number one in December 2015.
India's hopes of breaking their ICC trophy drought after 2013, remained unfulfilled as Australia handed them a crushing loss at the WTC Final.
Ravichandran Ashwin said India have produced excellent results, especially in Test cricket, around the world in the last few years.
Kohli is a massive player, will play major role in Test series: Kallis
With a massive 1,608 runs in the WTC 2021-2023 cycle, Khawaja was the major reason Australia qualified for the WTC final.
India batter Shreyas Iyer will miss the entire IPL season and also the World Test Championship final.
Australia captain Pat Cummins doesn't mind staying a bit undercooked going into the high-octane WTC final against India.
KL Rahul's Successful surgery brings hope for speedy return to Indian cricket team
India lead the table with 360 points and Australia are placed second with 296 points.
'He has played 100 Tests, he deserves respect.'
Former pacer Venkatesh Prasad feels that a high-on-resources India has got all bases covered to get past a high-on-confidence New Zealand in the ICC World Test Championship final, starting in Southampton from June 18.
Virat Kohli is intensity personified -- be in at a match or at practice.
India's batting mainstay was in top gear, training in all earnest on Wednesday, ahead of the World Test Championship final starting June 7.
For Kohli, a trophy-less cabinet doesn't do justice to the champion performer that he has been for a decade.
Travis Head raised his career graph a few notches up in 2023, but the Australian batter understands that staying at that level is a challenging task, and the first stop for him in that journey is the upcoming T20 World Cup.
Kane Williamson hit an unbeaten century as New Zealand beat South Africa by seven wickets on the fourth day of the second Test
'You are playing a World Test Championships final, and you don't pick the number one bowler in Test cricket.'
While SA great Lance Klusener hailed Hardik Pandya as one of the best fast-bowling allrounders, he believes Pandya gave up on Test cricket too easily.
Josh Hazlewood finished with a nine-wicket match haul as world champions Australia crushed a depleted West Indies by 10 wickets.
'Once he failed in the Australia series at home, there was very little chance for him but selectors didn't want to change things ahead of WTC final.'
When you look at the teams, I suppose they are coming into auction when their top-order is pretty much full. So, in that regard, I don't see many batters going for huge amounts of money, reckons Eoin Morgan.
Harbhajan Singh reckons the current team has not shown the fearlessness that one needs to win ICC titles
Kane Williamson, Trent Boult, Kyle Jamieson and Mitchell Santner are among 10 New Zealand players in the different franchises of the IPL.
'Steve Smith, according to me, is the best Test player of this generation. He has displayed that his adaptability is absolutely brilliant. You take any cricketer of this generation... in 85-90 Tests, he has an average of 60 which is quite unbelievable.'
Kohli took to Instagram to post a quote by Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu: Silence is a source of great strength'.
Hayden advises Team India to forget about outcome in WTC final
Images from Day 2 of the ICC World Test Championship Final between India and New Zealand, at The Hampshire Bowl, in Southampton, on Saturday.
Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma should take a break from IPL 2023 and instead prepare in earnest for the WTC final against Australia next month, said batting great Sunil Gavaskar.
'A year ago, if you told me we were coming here I would have been very confident, they were struggling a fair bit, the batting looked like they weren't really sure how to go about it.'
India and New Zealand will fight it out for the inaugural title at Southampton's Ageas Bowl
Manoj Tiwary, who made a century against the West Indies in Chennai in 2011, was dropped for the next 14 matches under Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Pujara says getting dropped from Indian team left him frustrated and with a bruised ego
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