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Veteran India batter Cheteshwar Pujara slammed the Indian bowling attack for failing to bowl short-pitched deliveries to Travis Head and giving him too much room on his favourite offside, as the left-hander hit a blistering 140 off 141 balls to put Australia firmly in the driver’s seat in the pink ball Test of…
Rohit Sharma will take a step back to lead from the front as India look for the perfect combination to drive home the advantage against a wounded but famously resilient Australia in the day/night Test starting in Adelaide on Friday. Rohit, returning to the side from a brief paternity break, has taken the…
Team India’s dominant 295-run victory against Australia in Perth has given the management a big selection headache. India’s playing XI for the series opener didn’t feature the veterans Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, while Harshit Rana was preferred over Akash Deep. As the experts mull over the changes that will be brough to…
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Former Indian cricket team selector Devang Gandhi believes that skipper Rohit Sharma should bat at No. 6 instead of opening the innings in the second Test match against Australia in Adelaide starting December 6. Rohit missed the first Test match as he decided to stay back in India following the birth of his…
Indian squad celebrate the victory in the first Border-Gavaskar Test match against Australia, in Perth. | Photo Credit: ANI It was a weekend of rain and runs for the Indians at Canberra. The warm-up fixture against the Prime Minister’s XI at the Manuka Oval was touted as the ideal base ahead of the second Test…
Shubman Gill dispelled all doubts about his thumb injury with a stylish fifty even as skipper Rohit Sharma kept cards close to his chest by coming in at No. 4 in India’s curtailed pink-ball warm-up game against Prime Minister’s XI in Canberra on Sunday. The visitors won the match by six wickets. It,…
Cheteshwar Pujara wants K L Rahul to open the batting alongside Yashasvi Jaiswal in the second Test against Australia despite the arrival of skipper Rohit Sharma. Rohit’s absence in the series opener in Perth allowed India to move Rahul to the top of the order from the middle order. Pujara, the rock of…
Ahead of his side’s pink-ball warm-up fixture against Australia’s Prime Minister’s XI, India’s assistant coach Abhishek Nayar said that batter Shubman Gill is batting comfortably in the nets and an evaluation would be made by physios if he is fit enough to feature in the two-day warm-up match and the pink-ball Adelaide Test…
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Shubman Gill was seen batting in the nets ahead of the pink-ball warm-up game.© X (Twitter) Shubman Gill returned to the India nets on Friday, showing enough signs of a full recovery from a thumb injury that ruled him out of the series opener against Australia in Perth. Gill’s absence was not felt…
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India would aim to figure out their batting combination for next week’s day-night Test in Adelaide when they face Australia Prime Minister’s XI in a two-day tour game at the Manuka Oval here from Saturday. India have played four day-night Tests thus far with their only loss coming at Adelaide four years ago…