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Virat Kohli reacts with his teammates during the presentation ceremony. India lost the final and fifth Test against Australia, in Sydney on January 5, 2025. With this win Australia reclaimed the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and also entered the WTC finals. | Photo Credit: AFP Twice over seven days, Gautam Gambhir has turned up for press-conferences. The…
Rohit Sharma. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Finally there was closure to the question around Rohit Sharma. The ‘will he play or won’t he play’ question was emphatically answered when Jasprit Bumrah strode out to the toss ahead of the fifth Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday (January 3, 2025). As if to…
Rohit Sharma (L) with Jasprit Bumrah during a practice session | Photo Credit: AFP Jasprit Bumrah won the toss for India after replacing the axed Rohit Sharma as captain and elected to bat first in the fifth and final test against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday (January 3, 2025). Pace bowler Bumrah stepped…
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Australia’s Scott Boland reacts after delivery during day one of the Fifth Men’s Test Match against India at Sydney Cricket Ground on January 03, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Friday dawned to the wet streaks of rain, just about enough to accentuate the green on leaves. When the dampness paused, it…
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When you hope to bat through a day to draw a Test match, more than two batters need to get into double figures. And neither of them ought to give it away. In the end, there were some 12 overs remaining in the Melbourne Test, the new ball was due, and India had got it…
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The year-end is a strange time. No matter what might have happened in the eleven-plus months before that, it never fails to infuse us with a sense of positivity and hope. The same holds true for this year-end in Indian men’s cricket. History was made, new heroes emerged, and legendary figures called it a day….
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Washington Sundar celebrates the wicket Marnus Labuschagne on day 1 of the fourth Test against Australia in Melbourne on December 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Minutes before the fourth Test commenced at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on Thursday (December 26, 2024), India stirred the news with some radical selection calls. Shubman…
Australian batsman Marnus Labuschagne (L) inpects the wicket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne on December 25, 2024, ahead of the fourth cricket Test match between Australia and India starting December 26 | Photo Credit: AFP Gurgling babies clinging to their mothers, children running with abandon, a group of women sitting on the…
Retirements come in stages, that’s the modern way. Not surprisingly, it is the lucrative franchise cricket that is the last to be let go. Ravichandran Ashwin will be seen in action at the IPL, and possibly even tennis ball cricket back home. He is already speaking of taking cricket to the terraces in Chennai. He…
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Head coach Gautam Gambhir, captain Rohit Sharma and vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah are seen during the inspection of the pitch at MCG in Melbourne on December 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP In a tiny press-conference hall located in the basement of the massive Melbourne Cricket Ground, Rohit Sharma kept nodding his head. Even before the…