Former India captain Sourav Ganguly is set to be the new BCCI president. Ganguly is expected to file his nomination on October 14, the deadline for that stage of the BCCI electoral process; he is also likely to be the lone candidate and so get elected unoppos…
India 601 for 5 dec. (Kohli 254*, Agarwal 109, Jadeja 91, Rabada 3-93) beat South Africa 275 (Maharaj 72, du Plessis 64, Ashwin 4-69, Umesh 3-37) and 189 (Elgar 48, Bavuma 38, Umesh 3-22, Jadeja 3-52, Ashwin 2-45) by an innings and 137 runs The hallmark of V…
With Barbados Tridents snapping Guyana Amazon Warriors’ 11-game winning streak in the final, another enthralling Caribbean Premier League season came to an end. There was much to take in from the five-week competition, but four points really stood out. Enfor…
Former India opener and coach Anshuman Gaekwad is going to be a part of the BCCI’s nine-member apex council that will be finalised during the board elections later this month. At its elections from October 11 to 13, the Indian Cricketers’ Association (ICA), f…
15.3 Ashwin to Elgar, no run, on a length and kicks up outside off, Elgar is wary of the extra bounce and lets it go through to Saha There’s only so much detail that a ball-by-ball commentator can include before the next ball is bowled, especially if a spinn…
Umesh Yadav bowled more overs in Test cricket than any other Indian fast bowler in 2016 and 2017. Since then, though, he has slipped to fourth – or even fifth – sometimes in India’s pace pecking order, and has featured in only five of their last 18 matches be…
The good news, or rather the mildly comforting news, is that it has been this bad for South African cricket before. They have lost Test series, of course, and they have even lost three in a short period of time, as is the case now, not so long ago. In 2004, …
Keshav Maharaj, South Africa’s premier left-arm spinner, has been ruled out of the third Test against India, which starts on Saturday in Ranchi. Maharaj sustained a shoulder injury during the second Test in Pune and will require two-to-three weeks’ recovery t…
11- Number of consecutive Test series wins for India at home, which is now the longest streak for any side. The previous best was 10 successive home series wins for Australia twice: 1994 to 2001 and then between 2004 and 2008. India’s success streak began wit…
Thirty-four for three, 20 for 3, and then 53 for 5. This hasn’t been a uniformly terrible tour for South Africa’s batsmen. Dean Elgar and Quinton de Kock have both scored hundreds, and Faf du Plessis has made a couple of fifties. The lower order has stuck ar…
Barbados Tridents 171 for 6 (Carter 50*, Charles 39, Tahir 1-24) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 144 for 9 (King 43, Reifer 4-24, Nurse 2-17, Gurney 2-24) by 27 runs When the New England Patriots defeated the New York Giants 38-35 to end the 2007 NFL regular sea…
Keshav Maharaj, South Africa’s left-arm spinner, has been ruled out of the third Test against India, which starts on Saturday in Ranchi. Maharaj sustained a shoulder injury while fielding during the second Test in Pune and will require two to three weeks of r…